Degrengolada
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1: Numerical Beings, pt. 1
366 views • Jun 21, 2024
Hello friends. This is my second ever digital comic and my first ever "vertical scroll" comic. Feel free to be gentle.
2: Numerical Beings, pt. 2
103 views • Jun 28, 2024
Part two of the first chapter. I'm planning to do weekly updates for the next couple of months, then we'll turn it into monthly, once we're up to speed with what I'm currently drawing. Come back next Friday for the conclusion of chapter 1.
3: Numerical Beings, pt. 3
74 views • Jul 05, 2024
And so ends the first chapter. Consider it the prologue. Next time we start the proper story.
4: Festerheart, pt. 1
64 views • Jul 12, 2024
A new episode or: how I learned I love drawing ducks and chickens.
5: Festerheart, pt. 2
48 views • Jul 19, 2024
Another episode, another introduction. I trust it is not too overwhelming. Nadja Ravenstein will be a big part of this story. Further episodes will feature even more new faces. I suppose that is the nature of a comic focused on a world or society rather than a single protagonist.
Anyway. To give credit where the credit is due - the “kill yourself” bit is strongly inspired by a similar Louis C.K. line. I hope he wouldn’t mind. Nadja is a fan of strong comebacks and good comedy.
6: Festerheart, pt. 3
58 views • Jul 26, 2024
Throughout these episode descriptions I am going to explain some of my creative choices. Since certain mirrors I upload the comic at give rather harsh restrictions on the size of these posts (i.e. 400 characters), I’m going to cut the explanations in question into pieces. So, next time I will start relaying why I chose the “Rifky memoir” kind of narration. See you in a week.
7: Festerheart, pt. 4
51 views • Aug 02, 2024
I remember when I was a teenager (roughly twenty years ago) and I was attempting to write a book, I had a certain pet peeve. From the very beginning it was the choice of narration. I was actually quite anal about the disadvantages of both the third person and the first person narrator. I had to come up with something in-between…
8: Festerheart, pt. 5
61 views • Aug 10, 2024
The pickle was, if I choose a third person, all-knowing narrator, then the narrator needs to be cold and objective. Needs to have zero emotion. Can't throw in any quips, because if he does, then who is this guy? Are we supposed to know him? But we don’t know him. And I hated not being able to throw in quips!
9: Flesh, pt. 1
48 views • Aug 17, 2024
Therefore I wanted to go with a first person narrator, i.e. one of the characters. In this case, the act of relaying the story becomes almost like a diary. But here comes another issue: I don't want a single protagonist that is the center of the entire story. I want to be able to tell other people’s stories just as well. But the first person narrator “wasn’t there!” So what do I do?
10: Flesh, pt. 2
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69 views • Aug 26, 2024
That's how I ended up with the "storyteller" type of narrator, i.e. a first person narrator that is not necessarily a participant of every scene. See, I am badly anal about this stuff where constructs like these are not logical.
11: Flesh, pt. 3
38 views • Aug 30, 2024
If a character was not a participant of the scene, then how can he describe it? Did he hear it from someone else? If that is the case, then the narration stops being a recounting of events in which the narrator took part, and becomes essentially a collection of stories, as if they were told around the campfire to some sort of audience.
12: Flesh, pt. 4
47 views • Sep 12, 2024
That is how the "audio memoirs" of Rifky were born: a collection of stories told to an unspecified person by a guy that happens to know these stories.
So yeah, the idea was born twenty years ago, now I'm finally doing it.
13: Flesh, pt. 5
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38 views • Sep 27, 2024
A few tidbits to finish off this chapter. There were two cases of an homage/blatant steal. The armor Warmaster Flesh is wearing is a design from a Guild Wars 1 game. In fact, that is where the character itself was first visualized properly. Also, the final line from this chapter is a Robert De Niro line from the movie Ronin. You know what they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
14: Wild Things, pt. 1
30 views • Oct 17, 2024
This chapter introduces Nina and Taro, the story's mainstays. I hope they become fan-favorites, as Taro likes showing some skin and Nina is properly thicc.
15: Wild Things, pt. 2
73 views • Nov 02, 2024
While I’m not a pro comic book artist, I did spend multiple years drawing comics. Today is the *first* time I’m attempting a panel frame break (the third to last panel). While I do respect the ‘rules’ of old-school comic book making, breaking the frame always seemed odd to me, like it was admitting “I ran out of space.” But I tried it and it seems pretty cool. I did run out of space btw.
16: Wild Things, pt. 3
60 views • Nov 29, 2024
Recently I’ve noticed a TYPO in episode 2 (the word “diving” instead of “dividing”). I’m trying not to be too anal about stuff like this, but it did bug me a lot and I’ve changed it in most of my mirrors (wherever I was able to edit an episode). It led me to an observation that I’m more eager to correct text than to correct art. I guess the sucking of early art is not an “error”, it’s a testament.
17: Insects, pt. 1
54 views • Dec 06, 2024
A bit of an interlude in the Horrik’s story. For the next couple of episodes we’ll check directly on our narrator and hopefully learn what the deal with the fissures is.
18: Insects, pt. 2
52 views • Dec 13, 2024
This episode is heavy on references. Some are comedic, some are serious, but I don't really want to spoil them. I feel dirty for even mentioning their presence 😬
19: Insects, pt. 3
26 views • Dec 20, 2024
Dialogue-heavy episodes are tough. Almost zero action, just talk, eh? Well, I hope that at least while binging the series, the episode will flow nicely.
20: Insects, pt. 4
42 views • Dec 29, 2024
That’s it when it comes to checking up on Rifky’s current day endeavors, at least for the time being. Next time we’re back to the retrospect of how the entire mess started.
23: Sister Love, pt. 3
33 views • Jan 31, 2025
Let’s end the chapter with some friendly banter between two relatively new characters. How many new characters is too many? I promise next episode we are returning to some established faces.
24: Corruption, pt. 1
40 views • Feb 13, 2025
This episode I am experimenting with the format a bit. The panels are slightly larger and more spread out than before. I did not want to make the font any larger, since every now and then I need a wall of text (like the monologues in this episode) and a larger font would take too much space. I hope it's fine this way and easy on the eye. Let me know in the comments, especially if you read on mobile.
25: Corruption, pt. 2
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29 views • Mar 03, 2025
Am I supportive of skimpiness and raunchiness in comics? Of course, and I keep saying that I welcome a tasteful dose of sexualization of all genders (sexualization of only women is kind of cringy to be honest). I tried to emphasize it with the butt cornucopia in panel 7, but Taro’s ass got mostly obscured by his greatsword. And, sadly, that’s not an euphemism.
26: Corruption, pt. 3
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60 views • Mar 19, 2025
This is another episode that I open with Rifky’s summary of the current events. Are these reminders too frequent? Let me know if you feel like your intelligence is being insulted by the author.
27: Corruption, pt. 4
34 views • Mar 28, 2025
On the second panel I broke the golden rule of “if you’re singing about the moon, the worst thing you can do is point at the moon.” While discussing Rifky’s aging I showed the side-by-side comparison. I feel vile. But I really wanted that shot of floating heads.
28: Corruption, pt. 5
39 views • Apr 07, 2025
A bit slower and more reflective episode. I always claimed this comic would have a snail’s pace as I intend to make it for years and years.
29: Corruption, pt. 6
35 views • Apr 28, 2025
I had doubts whether blood presented mostly as black liquid qualifies as mature content. Any ideas?
30: Corruption, pt. 7
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34 views • May 30, 2025
In this episode: Rifky quotes Devil Doll, Kurgoth’s veins have veins and the “disable friendly fire” box is unchecked!
31: Corruption, pt. 8
31 views • Jun 21, 2025
This particular bad guy’s name is revealed to be Zmora - fun fact about this word, it’s Polish and it’s a type of nightmare demon that strangles you in your sleep. Also, that’s how my grandpa named his cow (serious). The cow was black and had a twisted horn, hence Zmora’s look.
Anyway, next episode we step away from the field trip and revisit our pal Mistress Nadja.
32: Festerheart’s Lament, pt. 1
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36 views • Jul 07, 2025
In this episode: Nadja takes a bath. Also, administrative matters are executed.
33: Festerheart’s Lament, pt. 2
14 views • Jul 23, 2025
If the summer on the northern hemisphere is not enough, have a bit of love story to warm your heart.
34: Festerheart’s Lament, pt. 3
16 views • Aug 13, 2025
A tiny cliffhanger, as this exchange finishes the chapter. Will Ikati be properly corrected? And if so, how? Perhaps we’ll find out, but not next time. Next time we move to a territory that has been frequently mentioned, but not yet visited: Murkwaste.
