Jay Eaton

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In which Bip successfully baits Talita into a nerd rant.

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Talita yells at a wall clock.

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Everyone's favorite digital poltergeist is baaaaaaaaccck

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Talita blows off steam, Tod makes the same joke the readers have been making all month, and Jay never wants to draw this cutter arm attachment ever again.

Oh also, I'm visiting family for Thanksgiving and may be scarce for the next week. See you around.

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Tod is so large because he is full of his coworker's secrets.

Recent Doodles... and Things...

I haven't actually been sketching much recently, partly because I went through a depressive phase in October, partly because most of my artistic output recently has been book pages. I had a fling with abstraction last month, and drew some subjects while trying to make them look as little like themselves as possible while still essentially being ...

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Today on my fun scifi webcomic! Protagonist experiences workplace microaggressions

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So much for not pointing the cutter arm at anyone...

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Here's the other page I finished today! Talita is getting distracted at work...

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Guess who streamed for almost 11 hours today! It was me :)

Apologies about CC being gone (I was using Webcaptioner.com, but they closed shop Oct 31st) Twitch has auto-captioning now but it's pretty bad. I attempted to implement a replacement at the start of stream but it wasn't working and I decided not to troubleshoot live. It will be sor...

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I changed this page so that Talita is riding in the dispatch vehicle, because I realized it was big enough for her (she probably removed a middle row of seats), and I felt bad making her walk like 20 km to the worksite. She's athletic but wearing yourself before you get to the actual work isn't fun...

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Back outside, under the tidally locked night sky.

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The humans are squabbling. Random lore is that Adam grew up on Earth, where it's a lot more rare to see biomodders or typ humans with artificial genes.

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Sorry for the long wait. Here's everyone's favorite characters, the temps.

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I spent most of the last week troubleshooting Blender and CSP 3D import problems... and I'm very tired..... it's great to have rough model of the inside of the recycling plant though because I wasn't super happy with how floaty the backgrounds were in the Chp. 1 scenes in the plant. Resisting the urge to go back and "fix" things. The eternal web...

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I'm having to model things in Blender and the next page has a ton of vehicles so who's ready for progress to slow to a crawl againnnnnn (weeps, rends my garments)

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I'm back from sleeping for a week. Hey Tod, it's been a while.

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Me during stream today: I think I huave covid (I did) (I'm fine though I finished the page and will now sleep for a week)

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New chapter!! Talita is frustrated. Bip has no apparent internet footprint. Searching the galactic internet for information with a 6 minute ping sucks.

Technically I finished this page before the last one, but I didn't want to break chronology on posting.

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This took way longer than I wanted because I'm really picky about animal design.... drawing the human planet critters was a breeze though. If only my job was to just draw bugs and fish floating in a void all day.

Doodles August to September

Another disorganized pile of thoughts, designs, life sketches, W.I.P.s, etc. Includes Talita in sexy 60s space women outfits, rough thoughts on Maulu's short story, centaur planet dogs, bug ferret and centaur planet plant brainstorming, centaur cultural costumes (mostly Shess), some landscape drawings I'm thinking of doing, avian aquaculture and...

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A chapter insert to explain the weirdest aliens, humans.

Patreon introduced a neat feature, collections. You should now be able to browse the comic page history without having to worry about conflicting tags here: https://www.patreon.com/jayrockin/collections...

Scribble Comic: Buying Tea

Another return to form, panel free scribble comic. Shyam buying tea for a friend she definitely, TOTALLY doesn't have a crush on, at the point in the story this is from. Shyam is ironically a lot more confident and assertive around centaurs than Talita is.

Bug Ferret Wildlife Development

I decided multicellular life on the bug ferret homeplanet reproduces with viruses instead of gamete cells, like this:

Which is entirely because I really wanted the alternating lifecycle of gravedigger tree babies to work. Viral "sperm" functions t...

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And that's chapter two done. It's the longest chapter in the book besides the last one, so I'm looking forward to chewing off slightly smaller chunks for a while. Though, right now I'm planning to take a little break from pages to get some website and worldbuilding art done because I have a thousand things on the back burner. The latest I'll sta...

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The very funny thing about this page is that I spent the first half of today beating my head against Wordpress trying to figure out how to make a functional webcomic site, then I took a break to draw fake webpages for my webcomic.

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Talita isn't used to having a room mate!

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Well, that was a lot to think about.

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Bip's very familiar with centaurs, and Talita's very obviously an outlier to their eye.

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Time to talk about the confusing intersection of language, species, culture, and gender.