What's Normal Now, Anyhow?

Amelius on Dec. 4, 2023

Ain't that just my luck, right as I go to upload the page I notice an entire chunk of art disappeared, and then I spend another hour touching up a page that was “done”. XD

Had a bit of a struggle to get this page finished between mental motivation being super low and technical issues (you know, sudden loss of hours of work because the program didn't like that I selected a color and it needed to crash while thinking about it, god forbid!) and yeah I try to save often but when I'm in an ADHD Zone Hole I'm not even getting up to eat food, and if I'm hitting “save” it's because my concentration broke and now I'm not working, the spell is broken and I'm going to come back to it when I feel like it's a “good art day” (which doesn't exist apparently, I gotta force myself).

That said I'm very pleased with some of the faces on here. Especially how “Charle” turned out.

Dang this is a talky page. But it's stuff that's gotta be said.

And the name “Charle” is a little shout-out to someone, who back in 2004, offered this as a suggestion when I was looking for a good name to refer to Munchie Bear by. I wish I remembered the name of the commenter, this was from before the crash (back when my username was Zerlocke!) I don't suppose they still read or would even recall leaving that suggestion basically 20 years ago, but it tickled me. Is it Charles? Is it Charlie? I dunno which, but I was very amused by it, and have been planning this for years! “Name him Charle” was the comment, and thank you– eventually your suggestion has made it into the comic. :) I mean, what else would I do when it's close enough to Charby? They gave me a great setup for it!