Sciona definitely controls the senator, and the senator does sit on the committee that deals with Archon’s budget, but that doesn’t exactly give her much power over Archon. Not that she is necessarily gunning for them directly, anyway. Well, she might be, but trying to cut their discretionary budget 15% over the next five years is hardly the kind of slam dunk she’s looking for. She just put herself where she is because anyone who has access to military budgeting can probably get away with a lot.

Lorlara is fun to write, but god, she would be exhausting to be around for any extended length of time. I do kind of feel like doing a few comics in the vein of “A day in the life of…” about her though. Or maybe just the Galytn crew in general. Hmm.

I drew Deus way too big there. He looks like he’s pushing 6’11” or something. He’s supposed to be 6’4.” Oh well.

I’d originally intended that this page would be my stick figure page since I did this one the same week of the move, but I didn’t quite manage to make myself do stick figures, so instead it’s… this. It’s not my favorite art. You know, you see sketchy, loose art that still has a sense of style to it and you think, that looks like someone drew it in 5 minutes. Sure. If that’s their regular style. If it isn’t, then capturing that almost spontaneous, free feeling takes a surprising amount of work. Oy.

Anyway, we’re “moved in” in that the stuff that came with us in the 27 foot truck is mostly unpacked and distributed around the house. Now I just have to deal with the remnants of me and my wife’s house – all the major furniture is out, but I’m still not set back up with my usual drawing setup. I’ve got my computer and several extra screens moved over, but the array of desks I ensconce myself in is still over at my old house. I’ll show you a setup when I get it all, well, set up here. It’s fairly elaborate. I also have two 16′ POD containers to deal with. I have a feeling I won’t actually be able to park our cars in the garage for at least 6 months while we sort everything out. The new house is actually a bit larger than my parent’s old house, square footage wise, but every room in the old house had a walk in closet. Even the front office. (In American real estate terms, any room with a window and a closet is technically considered a bedroom.) In my personal terms, there has to be a closet and carpeting. I know you can put a rug down, but we passed on one of the houses we were considering because the master had finished, hard floors. My mom is a fall risk, and no way am I putting her in an uncarpeted bedroom.

I tell you what spending the last 2-3 months looking at houses has done to me though. It’s made me want to design houses. I just don’t understand some design choices that people make. Like every house we looked at was basically fine except for one stupid architectural choice. Yes, the houses I design would probably be a touch boring, architecturally, but they would be functional. Also probably a bit on the large side, if I’m honest. I like walk in closets. I don’t even have that much clothing, but I’ve lived in enough apartments and houses with those shitty bifold closet doors and closets that are 2′ by 5′ to know that I want some storage space.

I’m going to try something with this new vote incentive.

This month, I’m closing on a new house, selling my Mom’s house, finishing packing Mom’s house, moving city to city to the new house, forwarding mail, canceling utilities, all that. And after that’s done, I get to start the process of selling my old house, which needs a little work before it can realistically go on the market.

SO. I’m going to try and do this vote incentive in stages. Currently it’s just pencils. The TopWebcomics one will update with colors and detail until we get to the no clothes versions, then that will continue over at Patreon. Also there will be a comic or two in between each version to fill out the story.

I know it’s hard to tell from just the pencils, but this is Heatwave and Jiggawatt. The comics will explain why they’re doing what they’re doing. Although I feel like even saying that much makes it easy to guess, but hopefully the journey will still amuse.

Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.