Back to business. I will probably rearrange the archive so the sheep comics aren’t right in the middle of the story. However, that might take a bit. I’m working on coloring in the old comics. Who knows how long that’ll take though. It took ten hours alone just to get them ready to color (i.e. adjusting levels, splitting into layers, etc.).

Another problem is figuring out what to do with the lettering in some of the very early strips. Besides some eye-bleeding spelling errors (errrfgh), there’s the fact that a lot of the dialogue isn’t very readable. Actually, some of it is completely illegible. …So it has to be re-lettered, but I don’t want to do it in a way that’ll stick out too much.

Obviously I changed my mind on some of the coloring and details. I’ll go back shortly and fix the previous page.

Anyway, sorry for updating in such an irregular manner. Things are extremely busy on my end right now and what little spare time I have is going towards things like updating the link button (see, not as crappy as before!) and laying out future comics. (You want more comics, yes?) Things are starting to calm down so hopefully things can go back to a more regular pattern.

So we’re done with the X series for a while. Put it in it’s little box and shove it in the closet. The next arc, Daydreams and Nightmares, needs major tweaking anyway. The smart move would be to practice drawing Gate. pfft. Who am I kidding, I’m not going to do that.

106 comics. Christ on a cracker; what was I thinking? Feel free to critique. There were some good visuals, but there were also times where I just farked the whole thing to heck.

To recap what’s happened so far… X and Zero finished a mission only for Zero to find out that X has inexplicably chibied. Alia runs tests on the little yipper, but the only thing she finds out is that the two have feelings for each other. Sigma shows up (for no real reason) and Zero plays a game of racquetball with X to defeat the villain. After defeating Sigma, X is returned to normal (although the two are not necessarily related).

Some time later…feeling a bit guilty over his past stupidity, Zero tries to force X and Alia to admit their feelings by locking the two in a closet. This backfires and X uses the Ultimate Armor to escape. Zero finds X moping under a willow tree and Zero makes the horrible mistake of giving X the chance to pontificate. Alia gets kidnapped and MHQ gets a ransom note from a virally (?) controlled Dynamo. X rushes off to do the pissed off hero thing only to find that that it’s a trap laid by Return X. Zero (eventually) catches up to X, only to find the hunter (in his Ultimate Armor) being possessed by Return X.

Return X and Zero duke it out while X wanders, lost in his own mind. Zero manages to convince Dynamo to get Alia to safety. Dynamo forgets he’s a pervert for five seconds but remembers just in time to oggle some can. Lifesaver proves he’s an ever-loving badass and Alia revives just in time to provide two pages full of (debatably) useful exposition. More fighting and posturing. Meanwhile, X battles his own conscience and comes to the conclusion that fighting is only acceptable when it is to saves lives. X regains control of his senses and he and Alia gather up a crusty piece of slag that has a passing resemblance to Zero. Return X splits away from X and the two and the true nature of Return X is revealed as the two fight. X admits to murderous life but refuses to give into his own hate. Realizing that he cannot destroy something that is a part of him, he reabsorbs Return X and seals him away–unlocking the X-Fire Armor in the process. Zero is repaired, Alia gets a notice saying Gate’s body is due for demolition, and X and Alia meet up to sort things out. Meanwhile, Dynamo is back at base, sulking, when he is visited by Gate. Gate offers the mercenary a job of questionable safety and Dynamo (too busy drooling over the payment) takes it. Before Dynamo can finish mouthing off, Gate mysteriously disappears…

X needs a T-shirt that reads “I went through Hell and all I got was this crappy armor.”