(If you only read the comic and are looking for the new update, read this!! Haunted is technically supposed to alternate updates every other Sunday with the fanfic it’s based on. This week, I wrote a short story inspired by
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You, ’90s NYC expert: Uh, Metrocards in the late ’90s had a much smaller white band, and the “INSERT THIS WAY” strip was a duller gold. Me: Arrggh, I know, I merged layers like an idiot and had to move
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You, cool and savvy person who knows a thing or two about digital art: Dolly, this is pretty busy. You want to avoid visual clutter so the reader doesn’t get overstimulated. It’s hard to know what to focus on this
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Dolly placing Landgraab Apartments: Ok, so Spice Market is Jackson Heights, obviously, which would suggest the Casbah Gallery is in Brooklyn—likely Bushwick or Williamsburg—but when I think galleries I think Chelsea, especially in the late nineties when gentrification just started
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Right, this is a romance and we have to allude to a love interest somewhere. (If this is late, it’s because I’m trying to draw Bernard but also cracking up and repeating “soOOoo… who’s the gUUuuuyyYYYYYY” to myself in the
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GAYYYYYNGST To clarify the character-introduction rule, I’m not counting Yuan’s third-eye dream ghosts as character introductions. Let’s pretend for a while longer that everyone reading this doesn’t know exactly who these are and exactly what happened. (And if you’re used
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I’ve noticed in some webcomics that characters’ names appear more frequently in the accompanying text than in the main work, and as a result find myself forgetting everyone’s name. So that’s why Xiyuan’s parents called him by his full name
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(Got kind of overwhelmed this week, so I’m dipping into my Haunted buffer instead of releasing a new chapter. Honestly, I should have split the last chapter into two parts.) Me: That makes absolutely no sense. Myself: No, there’s
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In which Yuan’s inner monologue doesn’t match his furniture. I don’t know why I’m being coy about what he’s done when seasoned CT readers can point to exactly which chapter this is. Maybe it’s because many webcomics feature unsolved mysteries
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Here’s to another year of drowning my sorrows in what is possibly the strangest coping mechanism I’ve adopted to date! Happy holidays, everyone. I love each and every one of you. May we all have the strength to make 2021