/Silly: Shadow of the Colossal Mistake
by Arthur Orneck 
Oct 2nd 2007 at 9:15AM
Oh excellent, you decided to join us. Everyone, this is Shadowsilk. Shadowsilk, this is Everyone. There, now isn't that nice? We are among friends now.
Shadowsilk happens to be one of my many, many, many alts. The poor, neglected lass resides on a PvP server that I barely ever entertain the thought of signing in to. Why, you may ask? Because I completely fail at PvP. I just cant seem to get in to the mind set needed to spend countless hours hunting/killing, or more to the point, being hunted/killed. But thats the great thing about WoW - You can take out of it what you want. Its a big ol' "to each their own" kind of thing.
At any rate, todays comic shows a bit of a shift from the previous ones in terms of style and detail, which is one of the things I mentioned may happen as we go along. To be honest, the look of today's comic came completely out of my inability to properly budget my time. I spent so much time drawing the extra-detailed characters (Complete with research, as you will notice that they are wearing actual in-game armor this time!) that I left myself no time for drawing the backgrounds. So a few screen shots and some liberal Photoshop filtering later, (which, by later, i mean 5 AM Tuesday morning) we have what you see before you when you click on Shadowsilk's delightful visage above. While I'm not particularly proud of my shortcut backdrops, they will do the trick this time around, and I know I can fall back on them in a pinch.
The character art, however, I am quite proud of - I feel its some of my best work to date. I may have to assemble some kind of Shadowsilk desktop wallpaper or something to show it off at higher res. No promises though. I may decide that I completely despise the artwork after I've had adequate amounts of sleep.
In case you haven't realized it yet, I tend to get REALLY talkative when I'm tired. And at 5 AM, I just flat out babble. Complaints can be addressed to Mike Schramm or Elizabeth Harper, seeing as they hired me and gave me access to typing up the blog that I'm subjecting you to, Im sure any sane and logical mind would find them fully and thoroughly to blame. In fact, I'll supply the pitchforks and torches, but *ssshhhh* don't say where you got them.
Ok people, until next time, may all your hits be crits.
-Arturis
Filed under: Odds and ends, Humor, /silly, Comics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
gxavier Oct 2nd 2007 10:12AM
Do night elves really have those hideously huge ears?
God I hate night elves.
Combatc87 Oct 2nd 2007 10:19AM
I like the backgrounds. As long as the comic is funny (which it is btw), then you've done the job. Heck, look at Cyanide and Happiness, they don't have much in the way of art but dang if that isn't funny.
Ratshag Oct 2nd 2007 10:20AM
Hah. I am amused.
Thijz Oct 2nd 2007 10:38AM
Nice, nothing more to add to that! :)
Corbinn Oct 2nd 2007 10:40AM
Great art...the backgrounds work very well.
BigRedPimp Oct 2nd 2007 11:43AM
People who call it a "jump" need to be shot. It's a link and always has been a link. Sometimes I wonder if bloggers know what they're talking about anymore.
But I digress...
Great comic. It reminds me of when one of my Horde alts had a ding moment in Hinterlands near the Peak.
Guernia Oct 2nd 2007 12:01PM
Amusing enough and all, but when are we going to see a non-elf based comic? All three have been elves so far, of one flavor or another (tauren druid would have horns, you see).
Bring on the cows!
Arturis Oct 2nd 2007 3:50PM
You know, it hadn't occurred to me that they were all elf related comics. A mere coincidence, I assure you. I'll make sure the next one 100% elf free.
And then, ELF-A-PALOOZA! BWAHAHAHA!
(just kidding)
Alodar Oct 4th 2007 11:05AM
Jump is an old newspaper term. It is the "See on page " at the bottom of a story that jumps to another page (referred to as the "jump page"). So jump predates "link" by a large amount. In the case as it is used here, I think it is fair to say that the link is being used as a jump (to get to continuation of story). Not all links are jumps, though.
Kylie Nov 12th 2007 11:59PM
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant I say! This one still has me in stitches every time I look at it or think back on it. Reminds me of the time I tried prowling into Undercity not too long after getting my cat form. Ended badly not too far into traveling downward towards the city ^^;