@TakahiroStudio

Late to this thread. Went through the creator page and the Cap's Comic run.

I'm doing something adjacent - a manga where the one power in the world is a sound most
people can't hear - so "creation began with sound, not light" got my attention.

The post that actually made me reply was the one about reworking your characters across
multiple works. Same boat: the writing's mine, the drawing is model-assisted, and holding
one face across twenty pages is most of the job. What's worked here is a model sheet per
character attached to every single page prompt, not just the first one - by page six the
model has forgotten whatever you told it in the setup. If you've found something better
I'd like to hear it.

Following. Good luck with the High M@gic relaunch.

Read the preview. The Narrator is a good invention - the blank mask and the top hat
and the fact that he's the one holding the key to everyone else's doors. "Ideas are
like meals" on the notice is the line that made me keep going.

One honest thing, since you asked: every scene is behind Gold, including the first. I
nearly didn't get past the door, and I was already interested. If scene 1 were free the
people who finished it are the ones who'd pay for 2 and 3. Worth trying for a month and
watching what the numbers do.

Following

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Read the first issue. The wordless prologue is the thing I'd point to - five pages with
no dialogue, the girl in the storm, the door with the shutter-sigil - and then you don't
make us wait, the monster is on the page by page eight. That's a confident way to open a
first issue and most people don't have the nerve for it.

The POOO blast page is great. Sound effect as the whole composition.

One practical thing: the link in your post is pasted twice, so it 404s from the thread.
Worth an edit - it's globalcomix.com/c/true-quest on its own.

Will read 2.

Chapter four of AFTERTONE is out.

Three chapters in, the reading data told me something I didn't want to hear: people were
opening it and stopping around page four. The setup was careful and it was slow.

So this one opens with the highwall coming down. Then it goes back six hours.

The rest of the chapter is a slope-stability argument. The prisms haven't moved in six
weeks, the model says the wall is fine, and a man who hasn't said a word since he arrived
puts his hand on the rock and disagrees. The geologist has a word for what he's doing.
It's the right word by accident.

Chapter four of AFTERTONE is up — Sounding.

First chapter where something actually happens to the mine rather than in it: a whole
bench of the highwall comes down, and the only person on site who knew it would is the
one nobody can identify. He doesn't speak the whole chapter. He puts his hand on the rock
and the geologist reaches for the only word her trade has for it.

Also the first chapter that opens on the ending. Wall down on page two, then six hours
earlier. Wanted to see if it holds people to the end better than the slow build did.

https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone

If you're still taking sci-fi, I'd be glad to be looked at — and equally fine if you're not.

AFTERTONE. Two chapters, free, black and white. Australian, set on an open-cut mine in Cape
York. A twenty-metre circle of dressed stone turns up in a highwall with no tool marks, no
bedding and no fracture; the instruments sent to measure it disagree with each other; and it
opens for exactly one person on site, who has spent his life hearing something no instrument
has ever picked up.

It's science fiction played procedurally rather than heroically — closer to people trying to
measure something than to anyone fighting it.

https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone

No obligation at all, and thanks either way.

Chapter three of AFTERTONE — an Australian manga set on a Cape York mine site.

This one splits between two worlds for the first time: the mine on one side, and on the
other a valley in permanent rain with a stone road that has been maintained for a thousand
years by somebody. Drawing them so they never look lit the same way is the whole problem —
Earth is white paper with black figures, the other side is black paper with white rain.

Chapters one and two are up: https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone

Hi all — Mike, from Brisbane, Australia.

I write and draw AFTERTONE, an Australian shonen manga. Two chapters up so far, free.

The setup: a thousand years ago you could walk between worlds through stone gateways, and
then inside one generation every one of them went dark. Earth was cut off first and worst
— long enough ago that nothing survived of it, no record, no story, no word. Just a sealed
stone circle in the ground on Cape York, with an open-cut mine built on top of it by people
who had no idea it was there.

Chapter one is a mining crew cutting back a bench and finding the top of it. Chapter two is
the physicist they send up working out that it doesn't open by force.

I wanted to set it somewhere I actually know rather than a generic city — so it's hi-vis,
haul trucks, water carts, a superintendent who is very unhappy about losing her pit, and a
crew who behave the way crews behave when something stops the job. I haven't found another
manga about Australian mining, which is either a gap or a warning.

Day job is engineering, so this happens at night and on weekends. Chapter three is written
and in production.

https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone

Glad to be here — pointed at plenty of other people's work in this thread already.