Caves Under Here are the deep dark places that even the burly Dwarves fear to tread. One of the most fearsome dangers found there are the Crablins. Given to sporadic explosions of infestations followed by long periods of hibernation, they can appear at almost any time. Unable to talk to each other, the lonely Crablins strive to find other races to befriend. If even a word is spoken to them, the Crablin will consider a friendship struck and follow the victim until they day they die. This might not be considered a bad thing if it wasn’t for the Crablin’s constant need to converse, help, and ask questions. Infected Dwarves have been known to take their own lives rather continue living with Crablins.

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Two characters from the beginning of this issue will be coming back soon, and I’ve updated their looks as my style has changed considerably in six months that the comic has been running. Below are some quick sketches of the original versus the new. Let me know what you think in the comments section.

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Another preview of my comedic fantasy comic. This is one of five main characters. Smallpipe halflings live in cities made entirely of ceramic pipes. Since Smallpipe Halfling males are often made fun of for their names, they tend to be suspicious of others and have rather large ego issues. Most that leave their home nest of pipes find violent occupations. Their northern cousins, the more animalistic, Halfpipe Halflings eat anyone taller than them, and are known for their raging barbarian hordes mounted upon the backs of low flying board shaped birds called Skittles.

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I wrote a novel during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) called The Brother’s Malarkey. It was inspired by my DnD game, that I run every Mondays. Since NaNoWriMo finished, I’ve been flushing out and re-writing the novel, however the further I get into it the more I feel like making it into a comic instead. I’ve been sketching it out slowly to test out what the characters would look like,  below is a rough sketch of one of the main characters and the god that he follows.

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Did a quick sketch yesterday for a friend, tried to cover all of her favorite things in one picture.

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Although Kalisoma Springs is a completely fictional place, the idea for it was inspired by an abandoned hotel called Vishnu Springs. Located near Tennessee, IL, the hotel offered medicinal water from a local spring that according to vishnusprings.org was advertised to cure a wide range of ailments including diseases “peculiar to women”.  Ownership of the hotel has changed hands several times, including at one point becoming a hippy commune, until it was eventually given as part of a larger land grant to Western Illinois University (WIU).

Having both read about and experienced the place, I couldn’t help but write up my own version of it. Although I can assure you Vishnu Springs is nothing like Kalisoma Springs in it’s history, I hope to capture it’s powerful and intriguing presence with in my own creation.

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Changes are in the works.

- New Header: A new header at the top of the comic is coming next week. I doubt anyone will really notice… but it will be different… I swear.

- Altsad 2.0 Website: It’s coming some time this year. I hope to have a beta site up at some point, maybe around June. I have lots of ideas but I’m not sure which will make the final cut yet for the website. I’ll post more about it as it get’s closer to reality.

- More Art and Comics: More Wednesday art posts and some mystery guest artists will be stopping by.

- Quality and Shadows: This might not happen until the second book, but I plan on starting to shade and highlight the comic.

- Advertising: The double edge sword of supporting a webcomic and trying not to annoy the readers. This will mainly be linked with Altsad 2.0 but will also include the RSS feeds.

- 1st Book Completed: The first book will be done this year, and I hope to have it for sale around November/December. There will be multiple covers…

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Here is the Kevin Background in various sizes, enjoy.

1600 x 1200

1152 x 768

1024 x 768

800 x 600

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December 14th will be Altsad’s 6 month anniversary. A big thanks to all the readers and friends who have supported me in it’s development. I couldn’t have done it with out. I have a special sketch coming next Wednesday to celebrate, but I thought it would be neat to show how Darwin has evolved over the first 6 months of this comic.

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