Hi there, readers!

I just wanted to let you know, I’ve gone ahead and released pages 13 through 15 for FREE, but only on the Patreon site! I hope you’ll go there and read them, and consider becoming a Patron.

These pages were originally published around the summer of 2017, you could have read them a long time ago if you were a Patron. ;D

Go here to read Chapter 1 of WARBAND on Patreon!

After a very long hiatus from creating comics, I’m happy to announce that page 16 of WARBAND’s first chapter, WARCRY, is available for patrons to view on Patreon.

I would also like to point out that there are new reward tiers available on Patreon, including a reward tier that allows patrons to request artwork once a month from me. So if you’d like to make me your artist slave once a month, do check out the $10 reward tier. 😀

Please check out my Patreon site here!

Pardon me, but have some random ranting about writing. I’ve love feedback, criticisms and opinions as you see fit to provide them. 🙂

I’ve reached a point in my creative process where I’m stepping back and taking a closer look at the script for Warcry, and Warband’s plotline in general, and second-guessing myself. Have you ever just… re-read something you wrote and went OMG what was I thinking?

I’m looking at things and thinking, this could be illustrated more elegantly, written more briefly, or just flat-out unimportant to the plotline… I need to remember to “show not tell,” meaning that with visual storytelling, it’s best to illustrate rather than elucidate.

In the most recent pages of Warcry, which can be currently found only on Patreon, I found myself illustrating the story of Anathoth’s hair style… which is pointless and ridiculous and I can’t believe I’m wasting my time with it, considering how long it takes me to create a single page of the comic. The only redeeming factor is that I hope readers will find it funny. This is a fantasy comedy, after all.

Warband’s plotline in general… I keep looking at it, and I’ve written about nine chapters. Nine chapters and I’ve only gotten maybe a fifth of the plotline nailed down, there’s much more going on in the story. I feel like it’s way too long… am I going to be working on this webcomic till I’m sixty? I love Warband enough to keep working on it till I’m sixty, but it’s just one of those things, I want Warband finished RIGHT NOW because I’m impatient. I want to read it and see it more than anyone.

I’m also at a loss for what to do about writing romance. I feel like it’s become taboo for a strong female character to have a romance plotline associated with her. It’s a valid observation that 90% of female characters are only characterized by their romantic ties to the male hero of a story. They’re there as a goal, reward or a nod to the male character’s virility,  rather than being a character in their own right. I don’t want this to happen with our story’s lady defender, so I’d have to approach a romance story in such a way that it empowers her, rather than just reducing her to “the love interest.” How to write such a thing?

I also want to write romance for my male characters, but how to implement it in a meaningful way without introducing poorly conceived, “I’m just here as a plot device” love interest characters?

I’m awfully hung up on romance writing, for a comic called WARBAND… there should be more fighting. xD

How do you write? What’s your creative process like? Have you had similar conundrums when facing certain tropes or subject matter? What kind of things do you hate to see when writers touch upon them in their works?

I’m excited to announce that Warband’s Patreon site has 5 subscribers, who have all already seen up to page 13 of Warband!

Here on WordPress, you can only view up to page 8 for free. Page 9 isn’t scheduled to go online until February 22nd. Warband only updates for free once a month, so that means you won’t see page 13 here until June of 2017!

See Warband as soon as it’s created, for just $1 per page. Subscribers on Patreon also get the benefit of having first dibs on freebies drawn during my Picarto streams every Sunday night at 8pm.

Details can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/magusferox

I hope you enjoy Warband, and subscribe to my Patreon!