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In Carver City, two vigilante wolves named Chester and Jackson are the only ones standing between evil and the innocent human population. With an arsenal of weapons and combat training, they'll save the day every time! It's not as easy however, to save themselves. They have no past, and an uncertain future. Will they ever discover who they are, and where they came from?

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Welcome to ATR, my long lost web comic. I began ATR in 2013, and published weekly for over a year, until the beginning of 2015 when the workload finally got to me.

I have a habit of jumping head first into projects, trying to push for quality and complexity way beyond my scope, and as a result, none of my previous comic attempts even made it past five pages. ATR was different though - it was purpose-built as something I could draw with relative ease, caring less about bright colors and perfect lineart, and more about story and characters.

As time went on though, I grew unhappy with the quality and upped it a bit. Then I upped it some more. Then I was shading, and then I was finally coloring as well. In the end, the comic was too big a project for me to handle, and every page used 95% of my free time, starting work on Mondays and finishing late Sunday night.

After I ran out of steam in 2015, I figured I might never return, but lately, I've been eager to give it another shot. I was originally planning on restarting the comic, but after reading through it and being somewhat surprised by how cohesive the narrative was, I decided to simply continue where I left off.

Thus, the first 66 pages will be presented here in their entirety, before I start a new chapter and begin with pages from 2018. Be aware that this comic, having been created over such a long period of time, will see a significant shift in quality... the prologue in particular is basically just hand-drawn pages inked by pen and scanned in.. they're... less than pretty.

The new pages will attempt to keep the quality above. I've opted for a fairly new approach to the line-art. In all my other art, I do a sketch, and then redraw the sketch with smooth and clean lineart. The problem here is that the sketch, with its messy lines, tends to give a lot of depth to the character art, but in order to mimic that with clean lines, I need to spend a lot of time with variable line thickness and precise strokes... and that takes time. By doing a quick and dirty line-art pass, while retaining the sketch, I get a sort of middle ground. It's not clean, but it's not messy. It has character, but it's also very quick. I think that'll be my secret to decent art quality and consistent releases. Anyway, time to stop babbling and get on with the show!