The battle continues...
Kind of hard to score this fight. Gail's taken more hits, but the hits she's landed on Krylov have done heavier damage. Of course, Krylov has that "Instant Win" button she could press... but does she? Hmm.
Hope you're enjoying this action sequence. Or at least that the action makes sense on the page...
On the road with the Steele Angels...
I think Sax might prefer to be Gandalf rather than Frodo in this gig. Lugging around the Big Temptation is strictly for the birds.
I won't bore you with the grisly details of the technical difficulties around this particular month's comic, so I'll only say that I am currently bereft of my iPad Pro... and boy, to I miss it.
Gail comes in for a hard landing...
Who has the upper hand in this fight, anyway? Hard to say, but we know that Krylov is holding onto a trump card.
Hope you are all doing well in the new year...
Sorry, folks. This month, I got hit with a pretty ferocious case of food poisoning. I'm climbing slowly back to health, fortunately, but it's taking time.
Hope you all are doing well as we wrap up 2021. May the coming year bring good things for you and yours.
I'm going back to bed now.
The team scrambles to deal with the unexpected attack of Krylov...
If it's not one thing, it's another. But hey, missions where nothing goes wrong always happen off-screen anyway.
I believe I'll still be able to post a comic in December, even though it is generally the most hectic of months. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving (if you live in an area where that holiday is celebrated, of course).
Is it the swords? Is it the skill?
No, it's gotta be the shoes!
I suppose I could have gone with "I have the high ground," but honestly, that's not really a big advantage in a sword fight. It is an advantage in a shoving match, though. And traction is even more of an advantage.
Still, it's not that long a fall, and Krylov is made of pretty tough stuff. We're not done with this fight yet.
Gail and Krylov face off...
Lone Wolf and Cub (Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima) is one of my favorite comic series. In the fifth volume, we find a classic story called "Half Mat, One Mat, a Fistful of Rice," in which our tortured hero finds himself facing off with swordsman of equal (or maybe even greater) skill. Through multiple pages, Lone Wolf visualizes how this duel will unfold... and each scenario ends in either a draw or his own death. It's a riveting piece of comic writing and art.
I've always wanted to do something like that. Since my pages come out only once a month, I could not justify trying the patience of my readers by dedicating page after page to this psychic duel, as was done in Lone Wolf and Cub. So here is my tiny homage, presented with great affection. I hope you enjoy it.
Well, it came to me about a week before August drew to a close that I was never going to get the strip done in time. So instead, here we have... Outtakes!
For those of you who are new to Thunderstruck, I had a tradition of marking chapter breaks with some bonus art, wallpapers, and silly outtakes. You can find the collection here.
These ones are mined from the post-hiatus chapters, so they're a bit of a trip down memory lane.
One strip a month is not much to ask for a readership, but when the month was like this August was for me, it still became more than I could manage. I hope the outtakes are amusing enough to tide you over. Let us cross our fingers for September.
Krylov always has her weapons of choice handy...
So... I don't normally like to do comics like this. Since I'm only posting once a month, I prefer to move the story along as much as I can in each installment.
However, this month was very busy, and I had a lot of traveling to do. As a result, I needed to do something a little less content-heavy than my usual comic.
With any luck, I won't have to do this too often.
Let them fight!
What is the sound effect for a ki-blast hitting a handgun hard enough to disassemble it? I went with "Zzang." I don't suppose anyone can definitively say otherwise.
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