Maisie asks her friend Teddy to be her pretend boyfriend on a visit to her parents. But she realizes there are some important things she doesn't know about Teddy, and the day takes a turn that neither of them expected.
Maisie asks her friend Teddy to be her pretend boyfriend on a visit to her parents. But she realizes there are some important things she doesn't know about Teddy, and the day takes a turn that neither of them expected.
Welcome to "The Visit"! Previously published on DeviantArt only, I am now cross-posting this action-comedy comic on Global Comics as well. And remember that you can always read 2 pages ahead on Patreon!
The visit is a CGI comic, made with Daz Studio, with postwork done in Photoshop.
Fun fact- When I wrote the script for this comic, I didn't know what set(s) I was going to use for the house, so I very rarely described the rooms anything took place in. Luckily I was able to use one of my whole house sets, so the whole story (interior and exterior) takes place in rooms that really are in the same house. That's not to say that all the rooms in the house actually link together in the way they're depicted here, but they are all part of the same 3D model.
I actually agree with Teddy. I think even if it's something very weird like this, anything you do on the side can be considered a side hustle.
Remember that you can read two pages ahead on Patreon! When I've posted page 14 on Patreon then I'll upload page 12 here, and so on.
I actually haven't tried to build an audience on social media in years. But from what I've heard, it's gotten a lot worse, and it was hard enough back then.
I think I've mentioned this before, but in my comics, I like to cover moments/elements that tend to bother me in mainstream movies/shows. One of those is the girl/guy next door picks up a weapon and suddenly is more competent than all the bad guy's henchmen, despite having no experience with the weapon before. What happened here is, I think, a lot more realistic.
Teddy's comment about the stairs comes directly from my experience with many sets of shallow stairs when I was house hunting. There needs to be some sort of standardized step depth, because way too many stair steps are crazy shallow!
Yet another page that includes something that often bothers me in movies- when some random person runs up to a character in an action scene, how do they know they're helping the hero and not the villain?
Fun fact, the original version of the script didn't have any of the bad guy's little quips about Teddy and Maisie talking. But as I worked through the first pages of them hiding, I realized that they talked a lot, and so I gave the bad guy a few lines to reference the fact that they talked a lot, and he could hear them.
Fun fact: Maisie's line "No one said he needed to be dead" is a direct transcription of the thought I had when trying to figure out the final act of this story. Originally I figured that the bad guy had to die to end everything, but that seemed overly dark and an excessive act on the part of the protagonists. So I was trying to find places in the story to justify it. But then I realized "no one said he needed to be dead" and decided to have them grant him mercy.
After being slammed into a wall a bunch of times, I imagine Maisie will be more than a little sore. But she'll definitely be better off than the bad guy.
And back she goes inside to deal with the fallout of their wild afternoon.
That's it! 7 months and 32 pages later, The Visit is finished. I hope everyone liked it!