Wow thos epuns were really well done. How shocking.

Wow, what puntastic dialogue!

Funny strip. Those electric rods must be quite polarizing.

i really like your comic scratch!
nice job!

Fanart for scratch!! it's like Chinese new year!

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just add [/img][/url] at end of the code

THIS. IS. AWESOME!!!

sorry about the bad lighting on this strip. it looks really faded on the left but I kinda have to upload this in a hurry so without further ado the next installment:



ps: my next semester started so, "I'mma try an' color stuff!!!"

WOO!!!


And onto the comic, it looks fine to me. Can't wait to see even more of these guys.

I can't have enough of these two guys.

You can have my Scanner Scratch, You are just too good to use a Camera for Digitalization.

Awesome, i'm enjoying the back and forth between these two

I'm glad to hear you all like the coyote brothers!!!

I'M NOT WORTHY! I'm merely a level two human artist that gets +1 Charisma when I wear my Whirly Hat of Allure!!!

I'm using my forum post to create an inspire shamelessness effect "Take, take the offer of a free scanner!"

Shutup and Take my Scanner. and gibbme that Hat!

Inspire Shamelessness effect fails (there is is just too much shame!)

Never!!! but you can have my hat... WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD SCALP!
Scratch used flee!
Scratch got away...

Nice insults. They have sharp tongues for dogs of a certain species.

I have two pictures of the brothers colored, well one and a half. I was going to wait until I finished both and post them at the same time but I have no idea when I will be able to finish the other one. So for now I give you the Mysterious Strangers part 1

A quick updated bio for this one.
"???"
this ones the polite, refined one; always willing to listen to reason. Can keep a cool head even when his blood's boiling, he has to; his brother sure as heck doesn't. Although his brother seems to always to get a rise out of him. He tries to always be polite, even when every part of his being tells him to speak his mind; sarcasm is one of his closest, and oldest, friends. he believes the rules should be followed; but sometimes he just can't help himself, or his brother manages to convince him otherwise. His charisma has gotten him and his brother out of many..."misunderstandings" in the past.

Sorry about the blurry quality but as you might all be able to see I used a demo version of ArtRage to color this; and so I could only save a low resolution copy. I'll probably buy the full version when I can finally scrounge up $30(yeah I'm poor, SO WHAT? YOU DON'T KNOW ME!... I'm sorry I yelled. )

oh, and I doodled this in my sketch book and was rather pleased with it because for a while now I have been trying to make Pete look "cute" while still being intimidating and I think I did it with this one. I know Pete in the comic doesn't have the long hair but I think he looks cool with that kind of hair, or Plumage, whatever, YOU DON'T KNOW ME!!!-sorry, sorry Stressful week

First, I missed you. Second nice coloring! Take my $30.
Third I know you!!
Now I'm off to bed zzz

You want to make a cute character intimidating? Add a scar. Scars ALWAYS do the trick.

Teehee floating Pete head reminds me of the YHMH battle in the Shin Megami series or the Andross battle in the Star Fox series

remember this from jurassic park?
looks similar XP

I know, right? it so simple! lol


the first thing was all jibble jabble to me. but StarFox! I know what you're talkin' 'bout there! that is still one of my favorite boss battles.(You're talking about starfox 64 right?)


so close! I actually, and I'm not making this up, Based their stun rods off of the video game Jurassic Park on the Sega Genesis. In the game you can never see the back half of the rod but you could see the two prongs and that just kinda stuck in my mind.

but anyway after scrounging around and acquiring the $30 dollars that I needed, I bought ArtRage, sat down in front of my computer, and for about half of today I colored my original avatar picture. I was going to post when it became relevant to my story; but I'm so excited that I can't wait. so I guess in somewhat "contrived" relevance to the actual comic; this is the brothers "Temple Crashing" attire.

I know I'm not the best painter, but I do say I'm gettin' better!
ps: I swear next time will be a legitimate update. I just haven't been able to draw the comic lately; one friggin' panel I just can't get right.

he looks like a Japanese Samurai XP

what ya mean by that? yet, you are the best painter I've ever seen on this forum.

Looks really good! I like the style. Good painting indeed.

megacool!

get ready this one is heavy with words! (sorry, if you have trouble reading it I will gladly provide assistance)


I know it's not in color, BUT DON'T WORRY! I will start coloring these when I reach a certain point in the story; which is pretty soon so a few more non-colored strips and then BAM "Imma gonna hit yas wit some colla". also there's a text tool so say goodbye to my lame, chicken scratch, hand writing. (maybe I still have to see if I can do word bubbles and if I can't I'll have to see if I can still make the text look good)
thanks for the feedback on my last picture. I still think I need more work with digital painting; but that's because I'm my own worst critic. also just looking 5 minutes on any art website I can see easily 25 pictures that put mine to shame and so the endless struggle for improving my artistic skills continues!

I was going for the rogue look because D&D seems to play a large part in housepets; but I'll settle for samurai.

Looking great as always! Yes, the writing can be distracting, though it is legible.

I cannot wait for color!

These two talk a lot, don't they?

thanks copper you just gave me an idea for Fanart! expect one pretty soon Scratch. it's not going to be nice looking or something but I'll try my best.

I want to be in their team!

yes they do. One, in particular, can't shut his mouth, apparently.


What?! For me?! I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!-I'll just shut up and take the compliment. but seriously I'm flattered ...AND STOP SAYING YOU'RE BAD AT STUFF! It gets you nowhere.


I don't think they're openly recruiting.


ps: Sorry I take so long to update; but I'm really busy with school. The main problem: I have to learn html 5 and it's difficult; so its eating away a lot of my time. Not to mention that all of the time I have to draw is used for my drawing and animation assignments. So I'll try and update when I can; I'm hoping to get back to one comic strip a week. Keeping my fingers crossed.

can't wait for the coloured strips o_o

btw, i suggest to work more on dialogues... i think sometimes they're not completely natural when they talk... of course, i just want to help, i think that your comic is great, the twins are awesome!

I always appreciate feedback, thank you. I try to make the dialogue as real as I can but sometimes I just can't make it work. if you would give me an example of dialogue that looks bad in my comic and put what you would have , that would be awesome.

No no they don't look "bad", sometimes only a little unnatural i guess. Your jokes are funny, but a little forced, that's what i think, they comes from natural situation, during not completely natural dialogues. Example... the two twins, they seems more collegues than brothers... it seems they know only a little of each other, and the way they tease the other one too, it's like Bad Boys or something

Of course, i've seen comics with more forced jokes, and they're not even funny so it's not this big problem. I also do this sometimes, but i always try, if possible, to make jokes natural in dialogues and context. If possible.

I try to make the dialogue natural but I don't have anyone to critique my comics before I post them (Which is why I love feedback). I only have myself as reference for critique so I read it out loud and if it sounds good to me I move on. I do want to state that they speak more "slang" English rather than proper English.

as for them treating each other more like colleagues; I have notices that in the fan stories I have read here characters who are siblings are really "affectionate" towards each other and in my experience people don't usually act like that, my brothers and I sure as heck don't. Then again I don't know what your upbringing was like, maybe my family is just weird, I don't know. Don't take this the wrong way they care for each other it's, just, unspoken between them.

ps: sorry I took awhile to reply I've been really busy.

Don't worry i understand, i'm really busy too lately

Btw, i think i know what you mean, brothers are like "enemies" sometimes. Lucky me that my brother is like one of my best friends

As you can see I used the text tool fo da text and I know it sticks out a lot and the bubbles are really distracting, but that's because I'm not coloring anything yet. I'm looking for a better font because ArtRage doesn't have any fonts that look good other than comic sans; which according to all of my instructors is a deathtrap to use and I should get in the habit of avoiding it. so if anyone knows any cool, READABLE fonts I am all ears. until then I shall scour the internet site known as fontsquirrel.com and then proceed to bash my head against a wall because I will have trouble installing the font.
p.s. been busy and now that I'm starting to go digital and color these and add text with ArtRage I'm adding another couple of hours into doing these.

p.p.s. there was originally a joke for the album cover but I was listening to Dio when I was drawing this so I changed it to the Holy Diver album cover because Dio was awesome.

...and the awesomeness keeps going on...

http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=102
da font dot com!! I love this site
and Astro font is good 'un
http://ufonts.com/fonts/cc-astro-city.html

what I've noticed, ehhh, the triangles pointing out from bubbles kinda look fuzzy, did you draw the bubble your self or used a shape tool?
anywhoo your comic it self is awesome

Funny strip. I like it!

Dio is epic indeed.

Meh, I cannot really recommend a font. I am in the habit of using whatever I feel like at the moment myself.

Nice Dio reference. It's about time someone with some culture wrote a fanfic

if you're going to use a font, man, use Webletterer. Nothing beats that for a comic!