VDSD Update 12-Feb-2023 (And 2024! I’m sooory! Check out Bata Neart for news!)
I know I haven’t been updating a lot, but I hope you can try to make it up a little with a new VDSD. If you are a newcomer to the comic who’s arrived via VDSD, the comic is sort of on hiatus at the moment while I do print projects. There will be new pages in the future, I’m just not sure of the schedule yet.
I really appreciate all votes I get. The higher Back Office ranks, the better chance I have of winning new readers. So all voters: Thank you, you are honestly helping a lot.
In repayment, I am also putting up the previous Back Office VDSD images, vote-free.
Please click here to see my VDSD Collection on DeviantArt
Please check out all of the other awesome webcomics who have also joined in!! Beware though, many are likely to be NSFW….you know…with the nudity and all…
Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2023
Brad Guigar – Evil Inc
Jaycee Knight – Bloomin’ Faeries
Centcomm – Datachasers
Team Lady Valiant – Lady Valiant
MonicaNG – MoonSlayer
Julie Devin – Monster Soup
Amy Letts – Epic Fail
Midnight – Danger Zone One
Lou Graziani – Cy-Boar
Darksh1ne – Monstroniverse Adventures
The Letter M – The Restless Dead
Blue Dragon – Dark Horse
Lightfoot – Pulse
Stilldown – Ariane Eldar’s Personal Place
Stilldown – Theater Of The Bloody Tongue
Sheryl Schopfer – Sharpclaw
Sheryl Schopfer – Deer Me
Arne Cooper – The Androssian Prophecy
Utzsar – Rocks
Holly Laing – Terra Incognita
The Exiern Team – Exiern Valentines Day Sex Drive 2024 Reading Order Read Me First! (This Page Safe for Work!)
The Exiern Team – Exiern (Read this page 1st after the Reading Order page! Then vote for Exiern on Top Webcomics 2nd!)
The Exiern Team – Exiern: Dark Reflections (Read this page 3rd! Then vote for Exiern on Top Webcomics 4th!)
The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Zen (Read this page 5th!)
The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Chaos (Read this page 6th!)
The Exiern Team – Exiern Extras (Read this page 7th!)
The Exiern Team – Exiern v1.0 (Read this page 8th!)
Hentai High – Hentai High
PronQuest – Pron Quest
Barry Linck – Phineus+ Magician for Hire
MiraKirall – The Ace of The Spades
sidaragasum – Locked in Imagination
David A Webcomic – David: A Webcomic
Kawaii Kissu – Kawaii Kissu
Jim and Alli Perry – My Hero
Momoru – Mildreth of the Night
Momoru – Alvery Nerveaux’s Secret Case Files
Microraptor – Cryptida
rulerbrain – Selling Smiles
Mark Egan – Bata Neart
Mark Egan – Back Office
Zach Vanzile – West Tree Academy of Heroes
Ben Bourbon – Devilbear: The Grimoires of Bearalzebub
SpaceGoblin – By The Book
Gojiramon – CKarrus
Nick Greaves – The Great Isle of Prentil
Dizzaster Juice – Offworld: The Crease
Marshall Reeves – Yesterday Bound
Sean Harrington – Spying With Lana
John Harrington – Super Rivals
Lirvilas – Grinder$
J.E. Draft – The Challenges of Zona
yellowgerbil – Zoe the Vampire
Stef Marcinkowski – Sarah Zero
The odd familiarity of this page stems from a page somewhere in Office Party. Either at the beginning of the game, marketers with explosives, or when the 8-track has been merged with the bus, I think. Middle panel is main similarity. I think.
I just archive binged Misfile (over the past week). I had read it before, quite some time ago, and I had this weird feeling that it would end somewhat tragic. Like there was no happy way out. And the deeper I got into it the more uneasy I became about it. That was an emotional rollercoaster like few other fiction has ever taken me on, I’m drained.
Anyway, this page is supposedly the death of one version of Mike. And I’m not sure if it is my drained emotional state or if it is that I’m a bit lost on what the timelines for all of Mike and Karen look like, or maybe that I thought he would die instantly when he got hit, but… I’m not feeling much. Unexpectedly.
Careful, Daisy. You’re thinking, “I told you so.” so loudly Laura might hear you. 😉
Thanks for posting the update to here, I should probably keep an eye on your Youtube channel but I don’t use an account with subscriptions and somehow I haven’t worked your channel into my bookmarks to regularly check yet.
I found outland.no and I found that when I’m in my forest, I have 2 hours 20 minutes to either Oslo or Fredrikstad. Maybe not in the very near future, but in the not too distant future, I shall deem it worth the trip.
And thanks for mentioning the XP-Pen. Exactly which model do you have? Are you finding more and more to like about it, or more and more annoyances? Hardware only of interest to me – I expect to use quite different software. I’m not about to draw a manga, I’m just trying to explain some idea. I’m not an artist with these things. So far I’ve been debating Intuos vs a used Cintiq, or whether it’s worth it at all. But sometimes I don’t make any sketches, just because pen and paper has an edit-requires-redo problem and digital without a pen is too slow and tedious for sketching… and some of those times I end up regretting it.
One candidate for explaining why this seems oddly familiar: https://rawrtacular.com/bo/?comic=pg18
Hei O8h7w 🙂
Thanks for the interest in Rakkan. FYI, I have started to notice copies being distributed out to other resellers, including one in Sweden (can’t remember which right now). But as I’ve said, the Outland shops are fun and worth a visit.
I’m using an XP-Pen Artist Pro 15″. It’s not bad, but there are limitations. Despite calibrating it a few times, there is about one mm drift between the stylus and the pointer on screen. But it’s not that bad. My main issue is that I’m left-handed, so I needed to flip the whole configuration and rotate the screen in the XP-Pen so that the controls would be on the right side. The controls themselves are really very good. The XP-Stylus operates without a battery and the command keys on the Stylus makes it *very* easy to swap between pen and eraser. The red-dial on the tablet is ideal for zooming in/out. Over all, the XP-Pen is saving me a load of time. I’m using it on a MacBook which I feel might be limiting my options. I get the feeling that it would probably work better on a Windows computer.
Please feel free to ask more about the tablet if you are wondering.
Ah yea….would you believe I forgot about the GREG-ferry 😛
But no…it the page I mean happens a little later.
Yeah, there’s a reason I wrote “one candidate” rather than “this is it”. I think I just arrived at the latter: https://rawrtacular.com/bo/?comic=boc03p115
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I shall be keeping my eyes peeled whenever I enter a shop that might be the one to carry Rakkan, for the time being. At some point I guess I need to visit Oslo, but not now.
On the tablet, thankyou, much appreciated. XP-Pen actually lists Linux support, while with Wacom there’s no such mention (though their One is said to work with some Android devices, so it is likely to work somewhat well). I don’t think a one mm mismatch would bother me too much, when I want precision I expect to use software that makes things snap together and align and such. Thus, I’m leaning heavily towards XP-Pen, but for now there are other semi-expensive items that are higher priority. I might have some question when it comes time to pull the trigger, but for now, you’ve told me what I wanted to know.
Take care of yourself and your family, and that they take care of you!
That might be your most beautiful VDSD picture yet, and that’s a rather high bar when I’m the one saying it.
I had a very tense Valentine’s day this year. In the morning I sent her a poem, originally written in August and finished in October… yeah, this is a bit of a drawn-out story. We last met in October and plan to meet next in April or so. Anyways, that poem was not read until late at night. And despite me sitting on it for 4 months, not to mention sitting face to face with her with the poem in hand back in October, wow what a long day Valentine’s turned out to be. Forty-eight thousand one hundred terribly long seconds. On the other hand, when a few sentences from her finally appeared on my phone and they were positive and asking to have a phone call the following day — wow again, what a relief.
We talked for a long time. That was Tuesday, it is now Thursday, I’m still distracted. 😀 Did I say this is a drawn-out story? I guess I did. I still expect Mike and Karen to have their story finished before the two of us have a good grip on whether we’re to be a couple, or to be “just” close friends. Note the complete absence of an outcome where this relationship is not one of my closest, though. Not an option.
I’m scared. Also happy. It’s weird, it’s distracting, and I don’t really expect this part to be over before next year. How the f*** am I gonna do my job this year? And why am I blabbing about all this here, of all the corners of the internet that I frequent?
… one year later, yet again enjoying the VDSD image immensely. Not quite like I usually enjoy seeing Karen tied up though, because she seems properly sad in this image. Extremely beautiful, stirs up some emotions, just not the same ones as when she’s about to be a badass, or is embarrassed. Have you read Empowered, by Adam Warren? I recently started. Starts out goofy, but be warned, it gets emotional. Very emotional.
Talking to myself from one year ago:
…you had no idea how scary this year was going to get. You’re going to be more scared and distracted than you have ever been before, you have no idea it is even possible for our brain to get to the state that it is in now. That one is not the only woman in your life, you know… you’ll soon realize she’s not even the one you prioritize. Yet she is the one that you’ll be sending a card on Valentine’s day of 2023. You’re right about one thing: that relationship moves as slowly as Back Office.
Then again, she is not the one you will be worrying about. Doing your job? Forget about it, find a new one instead, you really should’ve done that earlier so that you could’ve had that part sorted during this crisis. But you’re very very loyal. Do you know which woman will scare you now? Wrong guess. It’s the other one, the one who never did it before. She did give you a hint but you were too preoccupied processing that high from meeting your Valentine. And you didn’t want to consider this. What are you thinking now that you know who I’m talking about?
Yeah. Drop everything else, this is top priority. And you don’t even know what the circumstances are yet. Doesn’t matter, you know who it concerns. Nothing else matters. Really, nothing else matters. You’re right about that. But you’re about to find out that it is not quite possible to live and think like that for extended periods of time in modern society. And our brain especially is definitely not happy about not focusing on the one thing that it has decided upon. The year in front of you is going to be very, very hard, and life crisis scale confusing, and scary. Very very scary.
Nice pin up!
Happy VDSD!
Yearly VDSD check-in, how did this become a thing… yet again, enjoying the image 🙂
Nothing to say to myself from a year ago. Nothing to say to myself a year in the future. Just waiting. Many of these things take a lot of time.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Apologies for the relative silence for the last (checks watch)…years…but I’m hoping to get back into the fold. In fact this weekend I maintained the disipline to work on some Back Office & Bata Neart and still hold off Last Day work for the weekdays. We’ll see how well I hold onto that pattern once the Last Day delivery dates start to crop up 😛