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Sitting around while I run something this summer (this is eating my free time to work on TT) but I can fit some things in. Today let's do a focus on Frankie! Frankie's inspirations took me a bit to think about and one that retroactively fits her really well. I ended up settling on from upper right and clockwise: Holly Hollister [Endtown]: Shouldn't be at all a surprise. I've diagnosed Holly as being essentially Wally's therapist a number of times (and the problems about that). Frankie just cuts right to the chase of what she is in the story, no muss no fuss.
Evelyn Carnahan [The Mummy]: Booksmart and clever but makes some egregious errors, particularly releasing the titular Mummy. Currently in TT Frankie is arguably the responsible party for how Clovis got his opportunity to make his escape attempt which is ongoing right now.
Rebecca Chambers [Resident Evil]: This is the character who is new, in that she fits Frankie retroactively. She's optimistic (or tries to be) but capable, a medic who ends up in way over her head. Clarise Starling [Silence of the Lambs]: Frankie takes away some of Clarise's fortitude in the face of adversity, especially when facing people who are actively dangerous/scary to face. She doesn't really give up even with people telling her no or condescending to her. Ma Otter [Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas]: Ma is sweet as honey, kind and self-sacrificing. Also an otter. Frankie borrows some of that wholesomeness and the species for her anthro type. Kind of simple but not everything is really that deep. Rachel Green [Friends]: Admittedly I like her hair but Rachel's influence on Frankie is her snappy little attitude when she isn't being a sweetheart. This helps back up that fortitude from Clarice I mentioned.
Every time I do an update I reach into my goodiebag for something to post here so more CRAB stuff from last year. The first page was the first look at Clovis' room, which could look like anything he wanted but he opted for something pretty spartan. He has a large bed, a desk with a comfortable office chair and a lamp, a large monitor, and a large space-window looking out at space. Rooms usually say a lot about a person and for Clovis his room I felt said how clinically he took the tourney. But. He opted for a bed that could fit two people, not one. Anyway, Clovis and space imagery comes up now and then, this happens in TT as well during his dream sequence where he looks up and sees all those stars in the dark sky. In fact I drew him contemplating space a lot in the tourney.
Outside of his space fixation and how he likes to stare at it, this is the first time I drew Cecelia (Clovis' mom) in a speaking role to him following the Apex link. This was a one-time thing, mostly because I didn't want anything non-CRAB to intrude too much on the whole competition last year. Also, she is kind of important to TT so I also didn't want to spoil anything too heavy about her.
She was pretty damn proud of his performance in the tournament though.
CRAB Material: The Apex Industries Packet
This was made for the purposes of reference in Crab4 but housed some important information about Apex tech and lore I wrote out for Topside Tales. The shrewd may notice differences between Endtown's Apex and TT's Apex in functionalities. The final page about the Zero Bomb is a personal note from Bernard. I also named the plasticized brain tech in this sheet. Something simple and seemingly harmless for such horrifying technology. Perhaps unsurprisingly half of that page is hidden by a helpful note from Maria to obfuscate the extent of how fucked up it actually is.
I'm sure after looking at this it may draw up a question of why Clovis' gun in TT right now is designed differently from the one in CRAB (Bernard's too for that matter) so I might as well explain it. Clovis in TT was outfitted with items from Capitol's lab, not his personal effects, and that includes his usual zero gun he is assigned to for Inspection duties. The TT gun isn't his usual one, it being an older series design like how Sue is an older-series PT compared to Endtown's much comfier PT designs (which can be seen in difference between the wrecked PT in the Prologue to Sue's own internal design). Other changes are things like the weaponry needing to cool down after expending so much energy or risk explosion, or a quiet removal of the (frankly nonsensical) close-body zero energy field the biosuits exhibited like...once? Call it a balance patch that slightly notches Topsiders down from total bullshit to mostly bullshit.
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Looks like Clovis came up with a better plan than I did
KEK Thank you so much, it always makes my day seeing your funny fanwork
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Been a hot minute since I drew Frankie. She's a bit concerned in this one I think.
@sahxyelart she also has the mutation. It’s not panning out well.
LMAO I gotta do a response to this XD
I did a gif, look how well they get along! 😊
@sahxyelart she also has the mutation. It’s not panning out well.
LMAO I gotta do a response to this XD
Got surprised with a trip to a baseball game tomorrow from my dad so I felt like drawing this instead of an update TT lore: When Bernard and Clovis first met they talked extensively about baseball and hit it off in the first step in their eventual friendship.
See this is why Bernard is Clovis' best friend
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It's crazy but I never played Resident Evil until very recently, in part because one friend from CRAB talked to me about how he headcanoned Clovis' voice as Wesker and another friend gripped my hand and dragged me right into RE5. We blitzed that game and I had an absolute blast. Afterwards I ended up devouring video after video about Resident Evil for the lore with exuberance, primarily because of the concepts of horrific body horror mutations and evil corporations/governments. It paired very well with my growing catalog of other media to think about while working on Topside Tales, which already was enriched earlier this year by a foray into another series that often was compared to Endtown: Fallout. I remember both of these game series being on shelves as I was growing up but I was a little kid scared of Mr. Fiend in Rugrats Search for Reptar and renting Croc: Legend of the Gobbos from the local Blockbuster. No way my weenie ass could play games like RE or Fallout. When I was older I just wasn't a fan of shooters either so that staved off teenage me too. I think I wouldn't have appreciated it anyway, not nearly as much now as a fullass adult (but god help me if I was aware of Leon S. Kennedy a lot sooner than a month ago LMAO) Resident Evil will be really helpful for me thinking about Eatbeast designs; I'm just not that great at monster design and I wasn't sure what would be good for 'something that looks warped from the human form into a horrible monster'. Turns out RE has that shit covered!
I may be assuming too much on people reading into it with current comic events but I swear on my defective heart that Burbank not getting shot isn't because Mallard died in Endtown
If it's any consolation, I feel like Topside tales has been planned out far further than a month, and doubt you would change it for a whiplash story change in Endtown.
That is a bit of consolation, thank you. TT does have a long plan and I do want to have the integrity to not change the story either because someone guesses a 'twist' I had in the works or because of a fit of pique, though I can't claim that things haven't changed over the years I've been working on the comic. The ending is already different from what I first drafted back when I decided to proceed past the prologue of the comic, and there are things that have been reworked either for pacing issues or because the first draft structurally for the story made no sense. These changes are however pretty small barring the ending rewrite, since the original ending did involve a major character death that I felt followed Endtown's latter-day philosophy of character death being stupid, pointless, and wasteful of their potential. Nothing to gain except more proof of 'wow the world sucks' as if the story isn't already obvious with that. Not to say that there isn't a place for that kind of feeling, of course, because a pointless and wasteful loss of life can be great in a story for tone and for characterization of those affected by it. But it's like salt, if you keep pouring it on the plate you're going to ruin the main course. Now take that thought and apply it to a finale! Capping a story off with a huge mouthful of salt isn't my idea of a good time!
I'll keep it real with you Frankie, he knows jack-shit about that.
I may be assuming too much on people reading into it with current comic events but I swear on my defective heart that Burbank not getting shot isn't because Mallard died in Endtown
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So uh Tomodachi Life huh
So Friend pinged me that Mallard died and linked me to 4chan And I decided to look and see how that happened since it hasn't been that far into this new arc since the last time I saw an Endtown update (which I think was Al and Gustine political soapboxing last I saw) And apparently He gets killed while he's trying to remove Deevee's plastified brain out of that body he gave her. Shot in the back, he doesn't see it coming And to make it better Mallard's death is confirmed during the sequence Mallard briefly manifests in the crossroads space and disappears Where Marx is
It wasn't a very subtle death either...
I'm distinctly reminded of the email he sent saying there's parts people will absolutely love and other parts people will fucking hate and this is definitely the latter. Not sure if I'm angrier about this or what he did to Gustine, frankly. There's only a couple solaces from this I learned today: one being that it further justifies my decision to not keep up with the main comic. Mallard was maybe the last breath of Old Endtown you could ask for who had some kind of agency in the story that could rival Marx's. EndtownGraveyard quoted him as one of their favorites, with a hope he would have a great impact on the story whenever he came back. Evidently that dream came granted with a monkey's paw, making what I assume his impact to be his sudden and pointless death as the story catalyst. The other is that apparently Endtown's patreon count plummeted after the GoComics paywall and the comic lost 70% of its contributors. I know it's more for the lack of access and demands to pay through the site but I would not doubt the cratered writing quality of the comic may have helped encourage the exodus too.
One more thing since I'm here: When I did check back a few updates (if anyone wants a tip to do it send me a message) I noticed something that DID make me laugh:
This feels awfully familiar, where did I see this before? ... Oh right!
