Poor Quin. And poor Shelly. Not the best of all possible starts to an evening of rolling twenty-sided dice and attacking the darkness.

My favorite part of this strip is probably the communal shrug in the last panel. Sometimes there's nothing to do but acknowledge that nothing can be done.

I've mentioned my unlearned gropings in the world of comic writing before in this forum, but I don't think I've talked terribly much about my comparable clumsiness in regard to comic lettering. I aim to alleviate that deficiency now, in the light of recent events.

I recently discovered an introduction to the various elements and styles of comic lettering called "Comics Grammar and Tradition". Those of you with sharp wits will recognize that this article is hosted at the same site that I found Mighty Zeo 2.0, the font that I use for the comic. Anyway, the article wound up being terribly useful for me, as, while I had seen a great number of these rules being put to use, I had not fully internalized them in the way I should have. Sometimes, study of other people's work can only carry you so far. Eventually, it has to be broken down and explained piecemeal. But I can live with that.

It occurs to me that I utterly forgot to mention that the website is finally completely finished! The cast page is up! You can click on the link in the site's header, or you can click here if you're just that lazy. The page itself is fairly standard--a thumbnail portrait, a full name (that might interest some of you, seeing as Brighton's the only one who's managed to cough up a surname so far), and a brief but affectionate description for each character who has made an appearance so far.

I will try my best to keep the cast page up-to-date as new characters are introduced. We've met most of the main cast so far, I think, but there's just no telling when new folk will decide to drop in unannounced.

Characters that I've had a hand in creating have a terrible habit of doing that.