Guess Who Did Hourly Comics Yesterday?

Guess who did hourly comics yesterday?

It all went fine until dinner time, at which point I fell behind and couldn’t catch up. It didn’t seem within the spirit of the thing to finish them today, so I’ve left them how they were when I gave up and went to bed. Complete with annoyed notes about Zeno Paradox Comics. (A book I had when I was little spelled it ‘Xeno’, which is why I wrote it that way in the comic, but I googled it just now and apparently it’s ‘Zeno’.)

Inktober - Day 27 : gel pen Just in case anyone wasn’t clear on where Lottie’s new friends come from.

Inktober 2015 - Day 29 : cartridge pen Lena is showing her brother how to tell fortunes with normal playing cards. It’s a real divination system, so bonus points if you know what the spread says. Although I had trouble drawing the cards that small so I’ll just tell you that it’s reversed ace of spades/10 of hearts/4 of clubs.

Inktober 2015 - Day 31 : brush inking and coloured ink And the last one, happy Hallowe’en! This year Tabitha is collecting branches for the bonfires that ward off evil spirits during this important night.

Inktober 2015 - Day 13 : gel pen Her effect radius for this sort of thing is more than a mile, but if you run immediately she probably won’t bother to chase you.

My only other gel pen picture so far this year didn’t turn out well, so I wanted to try again and check I remember how to do it. Seems to have come out okay.

Inktober 2015 - Day 10 : ink and water

A neat trick Spider can do with his psychometry is translate books written in foreign languages he otherwise doesn’t know.

I remembered to snap a photo of this one before I put water all over it, so I can show you how it looked before if anyone’s curious.

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If you’re interested, the way this works is that everyone who has read the book leaves a psychic impression on it. If the book has been read enough times, it will ‘remember’ its own meaning. The number of times the book has been read by people who understand the language will far outweigh the times its been read by someone who doesn’t, so he can sense the meaning of the words.

Nettle is impressed because her own psychometry is much too weak to do this. She can do a similar trick with things like combination locks though. That’s easier as you only need to read the physical position of the lock in the past, not the thoughts of past people using it.