Basurake

Yup, that’s FINALLY the end of episode 3! Johnny’s dead! Or maybe not. We’ll see. ANYWAY, its been almost 7 months since I started this episode, and its clocked in at a hefty thirty one pages, making it the longest episode yet. Alot of that may be due to me adding in unnecessary elements, like the pool of violence and the Aku San Monji, but I feel like they contributed in their own little way. As the first of the standalone adventure chapters, I think it turned out pretty well. Of course, I’m determined to top it in every way in the next episode, so let’s all hope for the best!

Although I’m sure no one but me is keeping track, next Wednesday will actually mark the One Year Anniversary of this site! I’m planning some goodies to coincide with the event, so check back then for the celebration! Episode 4 will begin shortly, either next week or the week after depending on how I’m feeling. Overall, I’m very pleased with the comic so far, and I’ve gotten alot of great feedback over the past year. In this next year, I’d like to really bring more readers in and start doing alot more fun bonus stuff.

Well, that’s it I think. I hope everyone enjoyed this little romp through Zipang, and is looking forward to the next adventure! I sure am, cause I’m sick of drawing Zan Onigiri!

Hey everybody! Sorry about the long wait on that last page, that dragon statue was a total B-word to draw. I was really hoping to be done Johnny’s chapter by now, but I guess it’s gonna take a bit longer. Oh well… hope everyone is still enjoying this, it’s almost over!

This doesn’t look good for our hero… there’s no shame in drinking a coke, Johnny!

Anyway, I’ve been hard at work these last few days getting some more pages scripted, penciled, inked, etc, so updates should come a bit more steadily. Technically speaking, this Episode is wrapping up relatively soon. I’m estimating it will run between 30 and 35 pages depending on how much action I want, but we’ll just have to wait and see. I usually favor a few action packed panels with cool art over full blown fight scenes, and I think that has worked out so far, but I could be wrong.

As I disclosed on my Facebook, Episode 4 is already in production and is tentatively titled “Willing Servitude is a Kind of Freedom Too”, but we’ll see if I can think of something better in the next month or so.

I am, however, planning on experimenting with some other comics on this site in the near future. This doesn’t mean that I won’t be updating Basurake, but to keep a steady flow of updates coming, I decided it might be a good idea to start dipping into my backlog of finished one-shots to provide some extra bonus content on the days between Basurake pages. Don’t know when I’ll try this out, or how long it will last, but if anyone has any suggestions, let me know!

Alright! Episode 3, Righteousness is the Molten Core of a Man, begins today! And it won’t stop! At least not for a few weeks, I swear. So long as I remain totally unemployed, this comic WILL CONTINUE!

In other news, I kinda got published, sort of. Life Meter Comics is putting out the third volume of their yearly anthology, and it just so happens that this guy right here managed to make it in! Of course, its all for charity the comic is only 3 pages long, but I’m still really excited about it! The book will be available for purchase on the Life Meter website soon enough, so make sure you take a look! All proceeds go to Childsplay! Check it out at Life Meter Comics! The Mega Man comic is mine…

That’s all! See you on Thursday!”

THAT’S IT! Episode Two, A Lukewarm Reception to Fantastic Unreality, is OVER. Took long enough, didn’t it? This chapter was kinda tricky, since it didn’t have ANY of the previous cast (except Hayes right at the end), and I wasn’t sure I had enough material for a whole chapter. Unfortunately, it ended up taking a good deal more time than the first chapter, despite being a bit shorter. Oh well. Over the next week I’m going to really put my grind to the nose stone or whatever and get Episode Three ready to go.

I just realized that with today’s new page, Basurake has now hit 50 pages! How cool is that!? Honestly, it feels like alot, but I guess it really isn’t in the grand scheme of things. Oh well.

I hope everybody enjoyed Episode Two and the cast and world it introduced. You’ll be seeing more of it all a bit later, but for now we must focus on a different insignificant event in the vast emptiness of space.

Back in a week with new stuff! Cheers!

Sorry about the rather long wait for a new page. Granted, I’m sure no one has actually been checking all that frequently, but its the principle of the thing, I suppose. Episode Two continues as the OTHER Ms. Seriph’s plan crawls towards its climax. WHO IS THE MYSTERIOUS SUBJECT ZERO!?

Not a whole lot to say about today’s page, other than I’m pleased with the panel depicting Yggdrasil City. Dunno about all the colors going on here, but I like to think I give all the colors a fair chance, regardless of how underused or gross they may be. However, I think I have a bit too much of a liking for purples and reds when it comes to art …weird…

Yes, this page is totally unrelated to what was just happening. No, there isn’t a joke, not yet anyway. Episode 2 is going a to be a little different from Episode 1, although not as much as it seems right now. Since there has only been one episode, the structure of an episode really isn’t very apparent yet, and this seemingly unrelated monologue probably seems to begin something entirely new. Well, it does, in a way. Just imagine that some credits rolled after page 27, and you just got done watching the theme song for the second time around, and I think Episode 2, officially titled “A Lukewarm Reception to Fantastic Unreality”, will make a little more sense.

I know, I know, having such an episodic structure to a web comic is moronic. I guess that means I’m a moron. Suck it.

Also, how friggin’ slick is the new gallery system? That’s simply awesome. Ok, I’m done.

If this were a REAL manga, this scene would be going in a very different direction I think. Drawing Octopardo (he’ll be named in the actual comic soon enough, I’m sure) is one of the few things that actually makes me feel kinda like an artist, so I really enjoyed drawing these pages. Still, it didn’t take long to get sick of drawing his stupid tentacles in every panel. What a dick.

Anyway, I think I forgot to tell a joke again today, but oh well. We’ll see how Saturday goes, I guess.

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Ambex continues to derail the comic! Hooray! Honestly though, I’m sure this isn’t a surprise to anyone, especially since everyone here is already familiar with the old comic. Still, it’s all in the execution, and I for one a pretty fond of what’s about to go down.

Technically, there’s been a good deal of crazy lightingy stuff in the comic these last two pages, but I’m not sure if they count towards the total, since these are now literal bolts of lighting. Oh well.

Kinda late, but today’s comic is the first experiment with color. Dunno if this will stick, but I’d say it’s worth trying new things. The big delay probably makes it seem like coloring this took a long time, but in reality that isn’t true. My lateness with updating was due entirely to external forces, which is bound to happen now and then. Hope it was worth the wait!

It dawns on me that today’s page doesn’t really have a punch line, but whatever. From here on things are gonna get a little weird, but if you’ve read this far, you’re probably expecting that.

I don’t really have a whole lot else to say today, so I guess I’ll just attempt to use all of the previous tags in the post. I think I’m a girl, Grease could have used some knife fights, boohoo I suck at drawing, smoke weed everyday, Kermit the frog is my boy, and here’s a fun experiment you can do!

I think I got them all.

The views expressed in this week’s comic do not represent the views or opinions of anyone anywhere ever, living or dead.

They finally made it to the Science Fair! YAAAAAAY! I’d be dancing like Kermit the frog if only these damn bones didn’t get in the way. Anyway, now that the Science Fair is finally starting up the real juicy stuff is right around the corner. That is to say, we’re finally getting into pages of the comic that were drawn within the last 6 months. Isn’t that exciting? Despite the large disparity in when these were all drawn, I think that they are pretty consistent in terms of the art. Perhaps that means I’ve hit a wall…

OH WELL.