May09
AbscondWithAPie:
I wanted a peppermint clock BUT NO.
Altermentality:
Poor Lorelei, raised by villains… she’s already started babbling off her plans out loud.
ON ANOTHER NOTE this comic could also be about me leaving my dorm room after a public party rages through… it’s pretty much the same, just put a bottle in that Lurkin’s hand.
I love the little shark plushie she’s got in her room. So cute!! And the ginger Lurkin is just too awesome.
Yeah, I really wanted to give him freckles, but I don’t think Lurkins can get freckles…
That would be cool, though…
i agree shark plushie is cute, and so is puppy plushie! oh poor little girl, seeing such a terrible scene… i’m guessing healing montage is next! whoo!
Yay montage scenes!
Hmm, what’s some good music for energetic healing?
Montage Song
She’s pretty used to it, unfortunately. No wonder she has such terrible nightmares…
Is the puppy supposed to look like Derk, or are my eyes just screwy?
No, no, noooo, of course not, it’s just a sweet, loving, brave, eternally loyal little doggy.
Is the ghost suck in place?
and I love the shark’s face, lol. >w< It's like Skarva but with a much more friendly appearance.
Yeah, she’s yet another victim of THE STARCH
Just wanted to say I have been loving this webcomic, I follow it so closely!
Aww, thank you! I’m really glad you like it
We may not be mega-popular but we have some really loyal fans, and that means the world to us.
YET.
Aww, you’re such an optimist for someone who’s a Morbid Guy.
Flish float even when unconscious. That must get…exhausting.
Well, we already know they float when they sleep, so why not
I mean, they do it automatically… a flish only touches the ground in extreme sickness or fatal injury or deep, deep sadness. (Slice… 
)
lol love the ghost look so funny and the flish lol. the only thing is lorelie looks different some how i cant put my finger on it, did you try somthing different??
sounds like a video game : entsbm 6
Hmm, I didn’t try anything on purpose… she looks pretty much the same to me.
That’s one of Ecta’s roommates, she totally deserved it.
Lor-EH-LAYS clock says “tick” “tick” “tick” ALL THE TIME.
lorelei is a frail normal/psychic type
lorelei! use baton pass!
(fenfations uesonat)
(ghost attacks does normal??)
Ghost attacks shouldn’t hit a normal type at all. I guess that’s why all the ghosts have to possess things when they’re trying to deal with Blank.
Pearl of Wisdom:Dead people are stingy they won’t even answer when you ask if could you borrow a nickel.
How the Fµ€K†@rd did he die from a cut to the ear.
You haven’t seen the front of him…
oh…
Who this character?
I’m a villain.
I’m missing an eye.
One who wants to avoid death best run from me.
It took 3 games for me to die by a girl named Jill.
My mission is to kill S.T.A.R.S.
And I make sure you know by belowing STAARRRRRRRRS!!!
Nemisis.
Correct =D
but that was beginners luck none yall will figure it out next time!
The STAARRRRRRRRRRRRS bit made it a bit too obvious. =P
My mom thinks its weird that I have my toys watch shows with me. xD
Awhhh, poor Lorelei. Although that’s probably just a normal scene to her.
Your toys deserve to be entertained too! Hasn’t she ever seen Toy Story?
I have sort of a stuffed animal addiction.
In my room at home I have SO MANY KITTIES and other things, and here at college I’ve had my Sandile, Goomba, Yoshi, Bowser, Koopa, and others. The best is my big ol’ Scooby Doo that I’ve had since I was like 8, he is perfectly huggable and makes a surprisingly effective pillow too. Victor keeps trying to convince me to learn how to make plushies, then I can have a stuffed Davis and whatever else I want. (Sure, I’ll do that over the summer when I’m not working/drawing/cooking/hanging out with friends/doing my OTHER job/catching up on the backlog of books and games I’ve bought but never read or played.)
Indeed! They get bored just sitting around collecting dust. At least, mine do… I’m more of a collector xD
Wow, sounds like you’ve got quite the collection. I’ve probably got a bunch of different kinds of rabbits by now, and a lot of Pokemon plushies… Although the biggest one I have has to sit in a chair because otherwise he’d be lying on the ground xD I think my personal favorite, other than my huge cuddly rabbit that also serves as a pillow is this newer addition, a cute little… Caterpillar I think it is, but it is adorable. xD
Hey, I’m learning to sew this summer! My mom’s teaching me. I’ve got to make some really cute plushies.
I show all my friends some of the comics from the forth and the laugh their buttocks off!
Oh no, I didn’t realize we were responsible for so many missing buttocks
I really like the layout for this one.
And the shark plushie!
But why is the clock thing green?
Because… why not?
It looked cool that way.
Lorelei! Use your global heal!
Hey alter question. Zese comics get posted M W and F and are fully colored with no mistakes…how the hell do you do that? Do you work on the M W and F comics on the weekend or something? And color them in between days? I must know.
Over the summer I’ll have a chance to get ahead again, and then I do plan to do as much as I can on the weekends… but for a while I’ve been doing the comics each night before they go up. I start as soon as I can that day (so on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday), and the comics usually take about four or five hours (it ought to take a little less, but my computer runs super slowly when putting it all together into the big file) – usually I have to stay up pretty late. It takes hard work and sleep deprivation and leads to more stress than I ought to have in my life, but it’s worth it.
For instance, I’m just getting serious with tomorrow’s comic right now. Victor helps me by coloring when he can.
Also occasionally I do make mistakes (recently I keep forgetting to draw those cuts on Blank), but I usually catch them and fix them really quickly.
Alter how do you and the other guy (forget his name) manage to post fully colored no mistakes comics 3 days of the week? Please answer
Victor?
*points to the banner* Well that’s what he gets for never talking to anyone, I suppose!
you…you reply way to fast…I’m afraid to ask do you sit at the computer waiting for comments…Also when i raise $200 this summer(i know I will damnit) i’m contacting victor straight away I have my…OC I would like him to know about. P.S my OC was inspired because I am half insane ^_^
Well I’m already here drawing, and I get notifications by email whenever I get a comment
yer like the freaking…dun know where I was going with that,neither do i,SHUT UP NO ONE ASKED YOU!…uh I’m leaving that there to show my insanity in action ^_^ My OC would be a fun addition to the story and I would be happy to spend $200 to see it happen
Now, don’t raise $200 just for the sake of giving it to us. I still don’t even know if I’d be willing to do anything more than the current $100 reward.
Why is it when I talk about money you appear from the shadows? YOU NEED TO TALK MORE! No he’s just fine. NO ONE ASKED YOU! It’s fun being half insane but seriously victor please talk more to zee people to read zis comic courtney is fun and all but 2 is better then one.
LOL.
peter’s wilmit captcha says
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Internet went stupid please excuse one of those two posts they both ask the same question
Isn’t it ironic, that the day this page is posted, and when someone I follow on tumblr starts having fish tank problems, that my own Betta would die?
He wasn’t doing well anyway. Ever since I got him nothing seemed to perk him up.
RIP Wheatley.
D: Oh no!!! I’m so sorry.
Sweeney actually died about a month ago too. Probably right around the time I drew that flish representing him getting sliced open. My parents didn’t tell me he died until I went home recently though. >___>
As I have said before, when a beloved betta dies it goes to Idenau and is reincarnated as a flish where it can talk!
alter can you tell us why abscond(victor) won’t talk to us as much? The two times he’s appeared was because of my potential(victor its going to happen!) $200 donation why doesn’t he like to talk to us as much?
~Etienne<—real name :p
Victor is a really shy person in real life and even on the internet sometimes. He’s in charge of money and advertising stuff though, so he’ll pop up to handle that. Also, I enjoy talking to you guys and since I’m so eager to do it anyway, he just lets me handle it. XD I do keep telling him he needs to talk more often, though! He’s funnier than me, after all (he’s the writer)! Although you wouldn’t guess it from how serious he seems most of the time.
(typing this as my cat (parenthesis withen parenthesis inception I’m a guy) is trying to go HUG ME YOU FOOL!) Ah the shy funny type that acts serious…I have like 2 friends like that its kinda funny (no offense victor) but yea…IDEA INSPIRATION!!!! maybe victor won’t have to hop on and talk but when you reply and such ask victor if theres anything he would like to say and in yer post add this. Victor: *bla bla bla words go here* that would make it so we can actually somewhat talk to victor and he doesn’t have to hop on GENIUS!
~Etienne <—- 100 points if you manage to 1 guess which language that name is and 2 say it correctly bonus if you find the city named this name.
It’s French. I was going to try and reply in French but MAIS NON my French est terrible.
Victor: ….
(He’s asleep. LUCKY FOR ME he doesn’t snore.)
ok as I’m bored with no one to talk to than my family in which we don’t share common thoughts I wish to talk with thou. Do either you or victor own steam? if so what games do you play? Also i wish to buy dungeons of dredmor but i is poor and what money I do get is going towards the $200 thing (victor there is no stopping me!)
I don’t, in fact I barely have time to actually play video games these days
Victor does but I don’t think he plays many multiplayer games. He’s really into Tribes: Ascend, though, if you’ve heard of it. It’s not on Steam, but is its own thing… I think? Holy crap he is playing it at all hours.
I’m with Victor, though – spend your 200 bucks on something awesome instead of on silly old us!
what is more awesome then you two? Fer freaks sake my life became 10 times more awesome when I stumbled upon yer comics and who knows when another chance may come along where I can donate to get my OC in a comic I like? Zere is no stopping me.He’s right. SHUT UP! Victor doesn’t snore but does he drool? I dun snore but man I drool not a lot but you know just sleeping mouth open and just drip drip…why am I talking bout zis?
Awwww, I’m flattered! Anyway he doesn’t drool either. If he did anything embarrassing when he slept, it’s not like I would just post it for all the world to see anyway
But he doesn’t.
Are you French? Or do you just have a French name? I have a Czech name but I’m a few generations removed from that and I’m just a pretty boring standard American melting pot victim. Although my dad plays in a polka band.
I just have a french name in fact all 3 of my names first middle and last arn’t at all american first is french second is mexican and third is portugese kinda awesome. Also if I make a request…brain fart THERE IT IS anyways I was wondering if you could like make a picture of some the cast from babys to adult you know like blank as a child to blank as he is right now I defiently(failspell!) want to see Skarva as a teenager X3 just a suggestion thoughs
That would be hella fun. I don’t know if I should do that yet though, there will eventually be some flashbacks that explain certain things like Skärva’s black eye, so I don’t want to spoil the fun! I doubt we’ll ever go too deeply into Blank’s past though, so maybe I can do him at least.
I started a drawing of Ecta because she is the easiest to draw and color, but I’m not done with it yet. And I think my Skaerva one if coming along nicely.
Do ghost’s eyes have colors?
All ghosts start out with the colors they had in life, but they fade over time at a rate related to how big of an impact they had on other people’s lives and memories when they were living. (The Third, for instance, is hardly paler than he was in life, even though it’s been several years since he passed.) Ecta has faded to the point that she has no color left at all. You can make her eyes blue like her outline though.
Schweet, thanks.
I’m staying up just so I can see this update; this is my first comment, by the way. Keep up the good work on this web comic, it’s my second-most favorite (next to Homestuck) to read!
This comment made me so excited I lost track of my tablet pen. Looks like you’re never getting that update now!
…Oh there it is.
Thank you so much!
I knew it was your first comment. I recognize when I haven’t seen a name before… I try to keep up with all the commenters as best I can, what they’ve liked and didn’t like and which characters they’re especially fond of… Creepy, PERHAPS, but why tell a story without an audience? And I love our audience.
Also Skarva is my fav out of the cast because of his varied facial expressions thats something me and him share we can make MANY types of faces :3 Also I can change my voice to dark grisly tones I scared people on halloween because I hide my face under a black cloak and just randomly said creepy crap in a creepy voice. OK captcha WTF?! this is mine. Tellner was <—– Tellner was what? Alive?! a bank owner? a serial killer?!
Tellner was a fan of The Fourth.
Lurkins are so cute.
If I had plush-making skills I’d ask your permission to make myself one. XD I actually have a question: Do all Lurkins serve Skarva? I can’t remember it being stated anywhere else…
I’m staying up for this update. B| It’s already two AM where I am, so why not.
Iruine 2-October — Oh my God this is so funny. XD October 2nd’s my birthday!
Nope, they are the second most common race in Idenau after humans… there’s a lot of them! But many of them serve Skärva or lesser evil forces – because the gods don’t favor them like they do humans. Mainly, humans in general want nothing to do with the Skärvas, they being accursed members of their own kind and the ultimate “bad examples” as it were, (you’ll learn the history eventually) and Skärva has to fill his ranks with something. Lurkins and Flish just don’t care too much about what humans think, and Lurkins have the additional bonus of being innately magical. (The ghosts are the household of Skärva the First, who are all cursed too… so what’re ya gonna do?)
The gods are sounding more and more like racists. ._.;
Not that I’m writing anything (I’m focused on other fandoms), but what would be your reaction to fanfiction and stuff of The Fourth? Sorry to make it sound like I’m pulling an impromptu interview on you, I’m just curious. XD
I’m gonna take this potato chip AND EAT IT. >8| (I *am* sleepy though, sorry if I act obnoxious at all. I’m normally…calmer.)
They’re just kinda all-around insensitive.
I mean, that would be absolutely delightful unless it was some X-rated slash fic or something, then I’d just be weirded out… and I suppose kind of honored in a strange way, although I probably couldn’t even bring myself to read it >__>
Pfft I wouldn’t read it either. Personally, I like Skarva too much to see him in any sort of X-rated situation. I mean, I like all the characters, but Skarva’s my favorite. HIS FACIAL EXPRESSIONS.
Skärva’s my baby, he’s the one the whole story grew around and the first original character of my own that I ever truly cared about… but I like all of my characters for different reasons, I couldn’t pick a favorite
Although I go through phases. I’ve been on a major Davis kick lately. Just wanna pick him up and squeeze him. His horns would probably poke my eye out though.
That clock would scare the **** out of me at night. Just glowing and ticking… you can’t tell me it wouldn’t glow. Not when the green is shiny. Also, her room is very boring. I feel sorry for her if she’s in this room that’s just solid purple all the way around with no kind of decorations. =(
That is a freakn’ awesome clock. I want one. Much more visible than the lame thing on my wall right now lol.
I just do that naturally. For which reason I can never actually use such plans, lest I get caught.
On the plus side, less work for the morgue!