The Orbat's Tale, part 2

Page 2 of The Orbat's Tale! Now with such novelties as INKED LINEART and SPEECH BUBBLES!

.....somehow I think it turned out a bit uglier than the previous page. Here's hoping I can make page 3 the best one.

The Orbat's Tale, Part 1

So I decided to try a new thing. This isn't my first attempt at making a comic, but it's my first attempt at making a comic that isn't complete shit. But yeah, this is basically Zaabo and Vale's backstory. This isn't gonna be very long, probably only two or three pages, but hopefully this'll turn out okay.

So how about those grey brick backgrounds

GOASTS

Finally colored that one smaller picture, mostly as a warm-up for coloring another, much more ambitious picture. I did try to fool around with shading a bit though. My tablet pen's working again, yay!

This was originally gonna be what happens in Fuga and Vale's first adventure in the tower, but I changed my mind because it was a bit too boring. Instead, their first adventure (which I'm finally making decent progress on writing) basically involves the two being hired by the King of Slime to fight a golem that's been roaming throughout the tower trying to exterminate all the monsters on the lower floors IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE.

Minor update

Don't have Sai or a working tablet pen anymore, so I'm fiddling with Gimp and coloring with a mouse to touch up and color shit. I'm unsure of this color scheme for the plant dragon, but oh well.

Robot Rumpus

IN THE YEAR 18XX THE WORLD WAS AT PEACE. THE MERCHANT KINGDOM OF MERKANTA WAS PROSPEROUS.

BUT ONE DAY, DISASTER STRUCK!

A WAVE OF METALLIC MONSTERS EMERGED FROM PLACES UNKNOWN TO WREAK HAVOC!

WHY HAVE THE METALLIC MONSTERS COME HERE? WHAT DO THEY WANT?

OUR SOLE HOPE IS THE WARRIOR WHO CAME FROM THE FUTURE TO DEFEND US.

FIGHT, SASCHA! FOR EVERLASTING PEACE!

MONEY, DEAR BOY

Firth needed money. Desperately, in fact. Though he already had a fair share of cash from being a traveling merchant, him and his "partner" (a giant bird with a knack for finding treasure) had recently landed themselves in a bit of a fix and now had an enormous fine to pay off for property damage. Unwilling to give up all his cash and live like a poor person for a while, he had decided to find another way to get enough cash to pay off his debt. Having heard legends of a unique creature capable of turning anything it touches into gold, him and his bird set out on a quest to find the legendary creature Midaros.

Surprisingly, they actually found it.......though that may not have been a good thing.

Miniscule Mass of Musical Monsters

A habit I'm developing is randomly thinking of monsters/segments inspired by music (mostly game music) and then drawing what they make me think of. Almost all of Enemy's original concept/character designs were sparked by The Invasion From Within.

So I colored my first batch and decided to upload them here, ramble a bit about what I thought of them, and link the song they were inspired by.

Name: Slabulous
Inspired by: Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest
I imagined this being the main menace in a sort of temple escape/advancing wall of doom scenario, where some characters entered a temple and took the treasure, causing all the defense mechanisms to activate and causing a forced scrolling segment past whirring sawblades and thrusting spears and whatnot as Slabulous slowly crawls along after them on its many fingers, smashing through anyone and anything in its way with its constantly-chomping jaws. It's actually a biological monster with extremely rock-like skin, like rock-type Pokemon.

Name: Tankenstein
Inspired by: A song I made in WarioWare DIY.
This is just a straight-up boss monster. His entire torso can flip back to shoot enormous laser beams redirected by small satellites.

Name: Cactus Sanchez
Inspired by: Sunset Heroes
Cactus Sanchez is a man among men. He has infinite grenades and a rocket launcher in his poncho, and rules the desert with a kind yet prickly fist. He's not very kind to strangers.
Name: Love Machine Mk. 3
Inspired by: Sweet Nightmare
There's really no appropriate description or backstory I can cook up for this thing. It's a boss monster similar to Tankenstein. It loves everything, and expresses this by grabbing things and nuzzling them against its heart-shaped face (which unfortunately sprouts spikes when Love Machine is feeling affectionate). It also shoots fireballs and homing hearts from its codpiece by pelvic thrusting.

This is the sort of frivolous shit I think of and draw all the time, so there'll probably be more random monsters/ideas that will never happen in any context ever coming soon.

First actual picture in a long time

I worked pretty hard on this and kinda like it, but I still can't help but feel that something's wrong with it and it's still incomplete, especially on the more distant part with the tree.

Also this is for my other current story idea. Which I have not posted anything for on here yet. Muh.

Help Me!

Help Me! wasn't my first story idea, but it was certainly the first one I had that wasn't a total pile of shit. The basic premise is that this big enigmatic purple cloud of a mysterious substance later labeled "Truth" swirls into a city and totally fucks everything up by transforming everyone into monsters based on their crippling personality flaws. Soon the whole city is deserted by humans in a desperate attempt to escape, leaving behind a gloomy, ruined city populated by bizarre monsters.


The story follows Collin Ampersand, a clueless, timid rich kid who gets abandoned by his asshole parents and gets turned into an uncannily adorable slime kid due to being a spineless homie. He then tries to figure shit out, go on a path of self-discovery, and generally try to survive long enough to escape a city filled with such creatures as murderous giant sperm and crying heads on wheels that explode when thoroughly distressed. I actually came up with a ton of monsters I really liked for this series, but never scanned the majority of them. I probably should sometime.




Almost every story idea I have ever had ends with what essentially amounts to a final boss battle. I can't help myself. The final boss this time is Desire, a giant monster living underneath the city that is basically every primal human urge and desire rolled into one, despite originally being human, like every other monster in the city. He's quite mad, and is only capable of saying "MORE," yet is the size of a Godzilla monster and capable of brainwashing other monsters into doing his every whim. Unlike most final bosses, he has little to no association with the rest of the story's events, only showing up at the end.

So, naturally, once Collin and his posse find the damn thing, they wind up provoking it and it emerges to wreck shit up. Every other monster in the city sees this, freaks out realizing that if they just keep on being self-indulgent monster bastards they'll become like that, and all team up to fight Desire in a climactic final brawl.