Are those drop tanks beneath the Mustangs?

Yeap, those are drop tanks.

Cuts happen. It's just that normally when they happen, there's this little square box up in the corner of the page that helps time stamp the passage of time.

So... when Riley remembers flying, does he actually remember the planes, or does he remember... self levitation? Hey, it's a comic with super strength, regeneration, and vampires. Vampires that look nothing like Riley, but other post apocalyptic stories have dealt with "master vampires" before. Crusnik from Trinity Blood is a personal favorite... through I'm pretty certain that level of power would be overkill for this series.

Though back to the subject of this page... I wonder if those are only practice flights, or if there are dangerous dragons flying around that need that level of deterrent? Once again, it's kind of sort of a fantasy comic.
Also, I think Riley was about to name drop humans. You are such a tease. ;p

"It's just that normally when they happen, there's this little square box up in the corner of the page that helps time stamp the passage of time."

That's so untrue I'm actually flabbergasted.

I think I know what he's referring to. I've seen it a fair bit where if, from page to page, generally if more than a day has passed, there'll be something to explicitly mark the passage of time (like "The next week..." or "two days later", or explicit dates if those are important to a timeline to keep track of). When long passages of time aren't clearly depicted in a visual state, such "time stamps" keep readers from getting confused as to the continuity. It can really throw off a plot if something happens a week later and the reader thinks it's later that day because the cut was from a day scene to another day scene. Though even then, large passage of times can usually be inferred with just a scene change, where it's clear that it would take time for a person to get from point A to point B, with dialogue further inferring the passing of time.

Here, however, we're not even really changing scenes. It's still the same scene, just fast forwarded to later in the day, so marking the passage of time is unimportant. The setup implies well enough to me "some time has passed" and we're to dialogue that likely has more plot relevance that what may have transpired off panel. Now, in an investigative mystery, knowing how many minutes or hours have passed can be critically important information but here, knowing how much time has passed really isn't other than being clear that time has passed since the previous page, which I think it is.

"I think I know what he's referring to. I've seen it a fair bit where if, from page to page, generally if more than a day has passed, there'll be something to explicitly mark the passage of time (like "The next week..." or "two days later", or explicit dates if those are important to a timeline to keep track of). When long passages of time aren't clearly depicted in a visual state, such "time stamps" keep readers from getting confused as to the continuity."

Yep! I've used them on LOTS of other pages for exactly that reason!


"Here, however, we're not even really changing scenes. It's still the same scene, just fast forwarded to later in the day, so marking the passage of time is unimportant. The setup implies well enough to me "some time has passed" and we're to dialogue that likely has more plot relevance that what may have transpired off panel. Now, in an investigative mystery, knowing how many minutes or hours have passed can be critically important information but here, knowing how much time has passed really isn't other than being clear that time has passed since the previous page, which I think it is."

Thanks! If I had to use Info-boxes every time I used a transition that wasn't moment-to-moment the comic would be a huge, over-expository mess!

For long cuts, like days passing or cutting to a new scene, that's fairly common, as it keeps readers from losing when and where they are. Here, though, it's unlikely that more than a few hours have passed since the previous page, and we're still effectively in the same scene of continuity, so a time stamp is rather unnecessary. The setup alone should imply fairly clearly "time passed".

WHy you gotta draw Riley so handsome and cute? Huh? Huh?

I just want everyone to envy Gene.

Well, that is fair. I think we do.

Do you?

oh interesting.....by fly he didn't turn into a bat and fly did he?

certain stimuli causes triggers...makes sense

Gosh darn cuts, they're always so confusing...
...or are they? Do people really have that hard of a time with them? Anyway...

Riley really is quite the mystery. Foreshadowing like this always hooks me and makes me want to power on ahead. Guess I'll just have to wait in suspense!

It's always great to see a new page from someone who really knows what he's doing with comics!

My theory is that most furry comics are what's called "moment to moment" (which I hope explains itself) and furries tend to stick within the bounds of the genre and are, thusly, trained to expect all furry comics to be paced that way.

I was thinking about this very thing earlier today, and that actually makes a great deal of sense. I was trying to think of a furry comic that I've read that wasn't structured that way, and had a difficult time doing so.

Another reason is that for pornography moment-to-moment works VERY well; one doesn't want to miss a second of titillation. I think a lot of furry artists fall into this pacing as habit and then can't really get out of it.

I wanna see him drink blood at one point...would he bite his BF's neck?

I am chuckling at the above comments and the fact they are off waaaay hard on some aspects of the comic.... Come on people "Look beyond what you see!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2Ceqm4cww

This should help!

Really waiting for next page

Sorry it's been a while! I'm a bit behind on things and had to focus on my other comic so that we could get the book version out soon. I miss working on VHB and will return to it I promise!

Wow! Good luck!