Songs without Words

Konbanwa, Minna~san!

Today, in the library, I spent ~2 1/2 hours drawing this comic on a whim. It’s in the same vein as “My Wings,” in the sense that it’s an improv-comic, where there is no predetermined layout or script. It just comes as it comes, driven almost solely through character interactions. In a way, it ends up less contrived and more flowing, although it is also less directed as a side-effect.

“My Little Brother:” a somewhat futuristic story about a girl and her little brother.

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Artistically, I chose the drawing style solely for its speed, but I think it fits in well with the type of society that I am trying to depict here, one that is not so different from our own.

In around 7246 (recall that it is now 7364), I created a pair of characters named Nisuna and Faxuda. Although they were created to be God and the Devil, they have personalities very distinct from any existing religions’ God and Devil. I could probably spend a whole post writing about each of them.

Anyhow, one of my favorite amusements from back then (middle school) was listening to the two of them bicker about the most silly of things. They would argue about cursing (to sum that one up, Faxu decided to make a competition where they would get points for ‘good’ curses versus ‘bad’ curses. So, “Good Lord” or “Holy cow” would be points for Nisuna, “Holy Shit” would be one point to each, and “Fucking hell” would be a point for Faxu. I think Faxu won by getting Nisuna to tell her to “shut the hell up.”), they would argue about boys (the two have a bad history with boys, dating back to 500 BC), and, they would argue about anything and everything.

Actually, Nisu and Faxu are friends, but I’ve never seen them actually say a nice thing to one another before.

Here’s a short, sloppy 10-minute comic to introduce them:

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