This was the first of the Kalwa Anime crossover, featuring Kalwa in the Dr. Stone world. The idea just came to me while I was drawing Kohaku from the show (seen on the green raptor site) about how Kalwa would look if she ever crossed over her and thus began this crossover series that I’m currently working to finish. Also it was real fun drawing Kalwa in cave woman garbs.
So I’m just giving you all an update on what’s coming up and what’s going on right now. For those who have been reading chapter 22, you know now that we’ve reached page 23, that means we only have three pages left for the chapter. I’m putting that on the front burner and we are looking to complete the chapter next week hopefully. I’ve been getting a bit swamped with many hours at my day job and that has slowed a little progress, but I’m still committed to my comic and illustration work and above all this comic. If the final three pages don’t all come next week you can get they will all be out by the next week.
To further announce what’s going to happen, the comic will take a small break after chapter 22. The next story will be a big six part story arch and before I can write the script I have to write the general arch. I used to start writing near the end of the current chapter I’m working on, but now I just save it for after it’s done because it weighed me down. This method allows me to focus purely on story and not get overwhelmed with too many tasks. So while that is going on there will be a brief break in page updates only for a few weeks. During that time expect to see new illustrations and updates to my other comic Amber Worlds Greatest Mer-Thief on the Green Raptor site.
News on actual publication, it’s still coming. The art updates are finished I’m just getting back dialogue from my co-writer. We were going to publish it hard copy and still intend to, but with Covid-19 and the current economic issues, those plans have been halted for now. We will try to publish hard copy possibly next year, but in the meantime digital will be our primary distribution hopefully near the end of the year.
Finally I wanted to thank everyone whose been visiting the site lately. I notice that traffic is up and likes are up too. It really means a lot know people are reading and liking the work me and my co-writer are doing. It’s a real great spirit lifter. So thank you all for reading, we hope you continue and stay safe out there!
A call back to chapter 4. This was really the first time staging a real action scene and need for coordinated movement. Rachel’s whip in particular was a unique experiment to play with drawing it in various positions and trying to draw in ways that could feel natural. I seriously don’t have that many comics where people use whips (or at least I didn’t back then) so a good portion of the portions came from either videos about whips or imagination.
Kalwa hasn’t fully made her final decision just yet, but she’s getting a new ally for her upcoming travels. That’s right Zack is looking to become her permanent traveling partner from now on. Check it all out right now by clicking the thumbnail down below!
I’ve mentioned on various occasions that chapter 11 was essentially “love project” of pouring my love and fantasies of dinosaurs. This was a primary example. Most people would prefer to pet a Triceratops or some other herbivore dinosaur, no people like myself and Kalwa prefer to pet the cool dinosaurs like the raptors. So what if they rip off the arms or devour the body, we still want to pet them because they are so cute!
So I kinda got a bit away from the Kalwa in anime series, but I’m finally getting back to finishing it. First I did Dr. Stone, then Naruto and then One Piece. Now we come to Bleach, featuring Kalwa with her very own Zanbato and a bit of a badass attitude. We just got one more in this series which I will get to shortly.
Got this one up a little late because I got occupied working on another Kalwa project that you will see shortly. This was actually finished earlier but I had to get back to review it. Click the link below and read the latest page today!
This emotional page from chapter 14. I’ve really credited this page as being a major turn around for the story as this is the first page in the series where we see Kalwa emotionally break down in tears. The second to last panel was the major vocal point which was a vitally important part of the page. I think when drawing it there were about three versions of this particular pattern before settling on the finished one.
One of my favorite pages from chapter 19, thus was the big page that revealed Victor in full light as the Whitechappel murder (or at least one of them). I put so much effort into the first panel as I wanted it to look freighting and intimidating given the huge role Victor would be playing in this arch and the future.
An adventurous manga series about a teenage girl and her time traveling cell phone 