Obligatory "Madness? THIS IS FALSE START!"

Super stoked for more Vul awesomeness! :D

Title was inspired by this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apk39Q_NO68 though I'm an unabashed fan of "300" and a lot of Miller's earlier work.

For some reason this cover screams late 90's YA novel to me. Specifically Animorphs for some damn reason. I think its the title box.

Hmm... yes. The title box does look like something off the cover of something kids my age shouldn't have been reading during the nineties rather than classics like the Hobbit and Star Wars. Pity the fact that I wasn't reading those things means I have no idea what the implications might be for the story at large. Guess that's what you get for living so long that the popular culture you ignored as a kid has sudden weighted implications to intellectual conversation twenty years later.

Be a winner like me and read all three.

Cool! I'm a winner!

Hmm... new lady. Really new lady, actually. Closest I found who might be her is the blue hoodie person carrying coffee in panel one of Issue 3 Page 8. And that's assuming she has a bra with a lot more support for her day job. Because... jeez. Anyone who thought this was actually going to become a gay story romance comic once again just got hit in the face with a pair of knockers.

But referencing your own comment about mammeries aside, there isn't a lot to over analysis in this comic. Moth might mean anything, but will mostly likely be up for us to interpret just like the flowers. Mind you, the complete lack of flowers in this page is now also something to speculate about. Pretty soon those flowers could appear someplace normal like a flower box and I'd build a graduate thesis around their implications.

As for who this lady could be... well I don't expect to find out until page eleven or twenty of next issue, if not until until issue six. Honestly, I'm starting to think that False Start is not only applying to the constantly rebooting plot line, but also the cover of each issue being relevant to the plot overall, but not to the plot contained within the issue the art appears on. Almost as if it was a twelve issue comic book where the first page of each issue could be put back to back to make a super special thirteenth issue.

But yes. I will be waiting with baited anticipation for issue six come January... not to mention you debut on the Katt Box... and Patreon. I know the work you suddenly have to do to start up the Katt Box must have put Patreon on hold for a little bit, but most of the artists over there also have a patreon, linked on the Katt Box page no less. So no reason you can't have one eventually as well.

I keep forgetting that people follow the comic in different places and that I sort of spread out info across numerous internet hang outs (IE: Twitter followers figured out who she is pretty quickly). The story is all contained in the pages though, that's what's important. I do think it's funny that people think the story is strange or "rebooting" as it all seems very low key to me; though that's in comparison to the large amount of alternative comics I read. Compared to something like "Final Crisis" or "The Filth"...

Rebooting is the wrong word. Those are where you throw out the story and start over, either with minor differences or differences so major it may as well be an alternative universe. You've actually rebooted the story twice, but neither of them carried the name False Start. The first version was Rafters, while the second version was Altitude. Neither of those seemed to be as serious an AU reboot... at least as far as the audience knows. (Oh, and there was eight pages of short called False Start, but that started and concluded on it's own, even if the pages could be considered cannon.)

The word I've been using is genre change. The plot line doesn't ship or retcon itself, but it changes directions sharply on a regular basis. I haven't read any of the fictions you just referenced. Closest thing I can reference it too is Medaka Box. It's an manga/anime where you start spice of life, you shift to battle manga, have your tournament arc, slowly shift back to spice of life, and jumps back to battle manga only to stay there till the epilogue. Quality isn't the important part of the comparison, it's points of view. Large complex stories cover scenarios vast enough to be different genres all the time, but they also cover different view points regularly. Both you and the Medaka Box follow a small group of people on one path changes the nature of traversing the path regularly. In your case, you have so far been following Leon and his crazy forty eight hours on a path that is soon to be crazy enough to require non-euclidean architecture to conceptualize.

That last part is mostly in jest, and honestly I mean it a compliment that your story is complex enough to bear the weight of such hyperbole. I look forward to how Leon's trip through wonderland goes in issue five, and how the story will once against be something just a little bit different come issue six. The fact these things are so different from one moment to the next yet one story is what makes it so interesting and the characters so real. It's a "the people who saved the world started their day with a corn flake breakfast" sort of deal.

Well thank you! I know it's a bit of an odd entry into the furry zeitgeist but I'm glad I have such a loyal (and ridiculously intelligent) following.

I guess I should address issues of canoninity (a word?) regarding previous works:

-8 page "False Start" short about Kaili: completely canon, though during its inception I had not planned to go further with the world until I sort of randomly thought "what if Kaili had a cute younger brother?" and the rest is what's laid out before you.

-Altitude: somewhat canonical in terms of Alex's experiences. There's a ton of penciled pages that never saw the light of day that I plan to include as extras in the inevitable FS trade.

-Rafters: the only canonical aspects are that Sei is blue and Rafters is New Hilo.

Also, I could swear we've seen this character somewhere before. Not in the comic before, I don't think, but she looks REALLY familiar. Is there other art of her in your gallery somewhere?

Been waiting for someone to say as much.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7571349/

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10622467/

Canon images outside of her eye color (I settled on blue).

Thing we know about the character:

-Penchant for indecent exposure
-Black nipples

Off to a good start!

Black nipples look the best when glistening, thank you contrast for this gift.

-Boneitis, 2015

Made it!