This is my personal fancomic, which originally I just called "The Comic"
because I have no imagination, but then I decided to
come up with a real name, and "Fun
with FF7" popped into my head. Well, it seems to fit, so I'll stick
with it unless I think of a better
one. Anyway, here's the archive
of strips that I've done so far(the entire thing is currently on hold,
because I need paper); please read
and enjoy! And remember that
if you steal any of the art or anything from this page, I'll sic various
sadistic villains from my favorite
anime series on you. ^-^V
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1: Hello, Everyone! The first strip.
It looks REALLY weird, because I didn't have much confidence in my artistic
ability
when I drew it and I did it partly
on the computer. Bear with me, though, things get better.
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2: Concerning Clothes This one
looks a lot nicer, although the computer and the desk aren't quite right.
Still, the important
part of this strip was drawing Sephy's
clothes and China, and that turned out very well, I think.
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3: The Cute Thing Heh - I got really
lazy on this one, I didn't draw more than one character per panel.
And before you
cast judgement on China's fist, YOU
try drawing it.
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4: Return of the Cute Thing Sephy
looks about ten years old for some reason, especially in the 2nd panel…
This one's a bit
smaller than the others because I
scanned it in at a lower resolution, but it's still pretty big. Someday
I'll have something here that will
explain why Sephiroth's so out of
character, or I'll just put it in a strip.
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5: A New Sephiroth? My very first
four-panel layout. It worked out quite well, I think. *sigh*
Drawing chibis is a lot
harder than you'd think… Still,
I LOVE Sephy's expression in the 3rd panel.
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6: Interview with the Webmistress
This one's rather boring, since it's all text, but at least it's neat.
And it explains a bit of
why Sephiroth is acting weird - the
full story will appear eventually, as soon as I do a story arc that MokonaChiirushia
is forcing upon
me. ^-^;;;
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7: The Mystery of the T-Shirt - Revealed! Just so you know,
I agonized quite a bit over China's first choice in evil bishies.
You'd be amazed at how few well-known
reformed villains there are… I don't want this series to get too
in-jokey, after all.
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8: Aeris Learns the Ropes Try as I might, I could not get
China and Sephiroth properly proportional to one another. I wish
I had time to take another drawing
course next year, it would help a lot.
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9: The Rampage of the Blob It took
me a while to figure out what to do with the fourth panel, but other than
that, this strip
and the next went pretty quickly.
Not having an elaborate third panel helps a lot. ^-^;;;
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10: The Rampage Ends The strangest
part of this strip was Aeris's black eye. I don't understand why,
but the first try I took
drawing it turned out fine.
I've never tried drawing black eyes before, let alone on blobs, but this
one was perfect. Weird, huh?
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11: The Quest Begins I finally managed
to get China and Sephy into SOME kind of proportion - wai wai! ^-^;;;
It still isn't
great, but it's not as bad as in strip
8. It's amazing how often I manage to avoid drawing China straight
on from the front, it really is…
Strip 12:
The Quest Continues WAI WAI! I FINALLY got another
strip done! The bad news is two parts: a) it's on regular paper
because when I drew it I still hadn't
gotten more of the cardstock, and b) it sucks. It sucks a LOT.
I mean, it's funny and all, but the art is
just godawful, the layout looks stupid,
and - this is the worst part - it smeared a ton BEFORE I could scan it
in, which means that there is no
nicer version. ;.; Well,
even sensei fall from trees, to confuse the heck out of you all with in-jokes
from Japanese class.
Strip 13:
The Quest Still Isn't Over Note to self: Never, ever,
EVER draw anything else set at night. Most of the basic stuff didn't
take
too long, but blacking in the background
just took FOREVER… I really like the layout, though. And the
art didn't turn out TOO badly,
though Sephy's face looks a bit odd
in the last panel. Also, he seems to have mysteriously gotten much
older sometime between strip 11 and
these last two… ^-^;;;
Oh, well. At least he still looks vaguely like Sephiroth.
Strip 14:
The Hazards of Old Men Wai! I finally got this strip
finished(after working on it for half the summer...)! The artwork
is at
a badness level previously reached
only by the first strip, but hey, at least it's DONE! Just don't
expect any more for a while - I'm too enthralled
with the miracles of Prismacolors…
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15: Maze of Chibis Before you read this strip, there are
a few things I'd like to say. 1. You should visit my other
site, Open
Circle ,
and read all the episodes on it.
2. There are probably more panels in this strip than in any other
page of comics ever drawn. 3. You should visit
my other site, Open
Circle . 4. I drew this comic after spending a weekend
with Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee, Shmee, and similar
unsavory characters, which ought to
explain a lot. 5. You should visit my other site, Open
Circle . 6. Follow the happy arrows. 7. You
should visit my other site,
Open
Circle . Okay, that's enough shameless plugging here in the text;
now you must read the comic and enjoy the
shameless plugging in the artwork.
Well, that's all the strips I have right now. As soon as I get more
paper, hopefully I'll have this comic going on a daily basis again -
I really enjoy drawing it even if
no one else ever looks at it. Please send ANY and ALL feedback/comments
to hokutochan@hotmail.com,
because I really, seriously do want
to hear from you and I'll listen to what you say. If you don't tell
me what you guys like, how will I know
what to draw when my personal well
of ideas runs dry? *gives all viewers a puppy-dog look* Pwease?
Look, here's the little thing that gives me the authority to make Sephiroth act however I want him to act:
O HO HO HO HO! If YOU want to catch Sephiroth, too,
go here: http://www.pocket-bishonen.com/
