Rain
Comic 621 - Chapter 24 - Of Cons and Kisses
Author Notes:
As an aside, virtually all depictions of cosplay or general "anime/manga characters" will be my own characters from other stories (ones that aren't part of the Rainverse though, so no Magical and no Lavender Town). But apart from the occasional Kaminari or Pandora, anticipate me chiming in if there's ever a seemingly random character in the background to tell you where they're from. XD
Foooor instance, on the Center Con banner we have a group of random peeps depicted. While my personal con experience is fairly limited, a commonality I've noticed from knick-knacks brought back by friends, is that anime conventions seem to often have characters that aren't from anything as mascots. Usually it's just some variation of a cute fluffy monster/animal thing, a robot, a swordsman, and/or a cat-girl.
As such, Center Con's mascots are from left to right: cyborg girl, Camille, a cute critter known as a wüffle, and swordsman-esque hero, Cole (all from three different older works). I don't think I have any cat-girls, so I had to leave that cliche out. The two characters can be found in my 100 Character Challenge piece I did a while back (numbers 37 and 82). The wüffle is something I'd honestly forgotten about until making this page (it might not even be entirely accurate to how I used to draw it ages ago; I don't think I still have any references though).
Getting back on track, I also want to add that Rain is agonizingly cute in this chapter for no good reason. It's so basic, but this may be one of my favorite outfits I've put her in for a while. The orange wristbands, by the way, are just signifiers that they've presented tickets to get in. I'll be seriously impressed with myself if I get through this chapter without forgetting it. XD
Oh, yeah... and I guess there might be some kissing or whatever. I dunno.
Probably no one cares about that. ;P
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It sounds self-explanitory, but I feel like I've got to ask: what's Femslash February? I've actually never heard of it.
Thank you. I try my best. ^_^
Back in the day, there was this little webcomic called RPG World. It was possibly the first that I really followed and remained one of my favorites for a long time. At some point, the author started missing updates a lot without explanation. And when readers would comment on that, he'd get bitter about it. This caused a huge rift between the writer and the readers. In the end, he starting rushing towards a conclusion to get the story over with (complete with a drop in art quality) and even then never finished it. And unless I missed a memo somewhere myself, I'm pretty sure he just stopped doing it without a word to anyone (I stopped checking after the first year of no updates).
If writers want to move on to something else, or something big happens in their lives, I can understand. But it's not the readers fault, and I think the least that could be done was a little communication. I've seen situations like this a lot, and it stuck with me. So it became a cornerstone of how I choose present my webcomic. If, heaven forbid, I can't make an update (whether for a day or for a couple weeks or even a couple months), you guys will know ahead of time. I will repeat it as many times as I can so everyone gets the memo (and chime in just to say hi occasionally while I'm gone), because I don't want my readers revolting at me, when they could just as easily be totally okay with me needing time. I guarantee I would've lost a lot of readers over the years if I just went ahead and never said a word about my hiatuses before they came. So I think communication is integral. I'm not trying to say I'm better than other webcomic artists; I just try my best to learn from others' mistakes. ^_^
I probably didn't need to share all that, but this is actually pretty important to me, so I hope it's at least interesting.
I love how I can trust when your webcomic will be updated it is so refreshing, I love it.
Is Emily gonna kiss Rain?
Is Rain gonna kiss Emily?
Is Emily going to kiss Aiken?
*runs around in circles*