Update: Yesterday I ended up re-editing page 40 because it bothered me that I drew Jet looking like a dumpy midget with bad proportions on a full body shot. Basically, Jet is mostly nose cone and wings. He’s top heavy, but his tail helps balance his stance.

Also: Fan art page has been updated. If you visited that tab and it wasn’t there before, it’s up now.

Finally, Now that I’ve started drawing Jet a bit more, I find that drawing his wings is the most complicated part and that I’ve really half-assed it a lot on past pages. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to people that I make up a ton of this as I go along, but most of those things I fudge are fine mechanical details. For instance: When I started designing the main characters I had a “vague to general” understanding of their looks/weapons/transformations. The toughest part about drawing Lyron is when he uses his arm gatlings and his arm blades, simply because I never finalized those designs like you’d see in an anime art book. So every time I draw them they can look wildly different from page to page. I hope the more I’m forced to draw those things, the faster I’ll come to a conclusion about what they should look like and how they function. Thankfully, doing the comic in pencil has proved very forgiving and I might continue to evolve these mecha people till the bitter end.

As for this page, I wouldn’t say Lyron is *mad*… but I’d say six books-worth of him being attacked has left him pretty pissed off at people who point weapons first and ask questions later without so much as an introduction. But Jet has some tricks up his iron sleeve…