Not only will I be bringing back the more lighthearted side of the comic, I will be bringing in the lobster more and weaving through a short story arc as well! A happy confluence of chance occurrences gave me a few good ideas, and with barely a moment to spare. I’m actually glad I missed the Sunday update, because I was ready to execute a poor comic just to get one up.
I’m playing with how I do backgrounds and painting color more, thanks to Rob Lundy over at http://www.consolehopping.com. His tutorials are at http://www.youtube.com/user/ArtOfRawb (amongst other places) and if you have any technical curiosity you should definitely check them out. I played with the smoke today, but I want to start applying this to backgrounds in general. Let me know what you think as I start tying it in.