#john dot

In case anyone didn't get it - if you do all the escape room elements in the second chapter and use the code to avoid being hit in the head with the dustpan, you will find that nothing has changed and the stairs are still flooded. There were even a few strips about it in SATIM.

Better uncoloured than nothing, right?

Sammy has a great tendency to exaggeration. And a very powerful complex on his point. Namely - he is sincerely convinced that everyone (except Bendy, their kids and a few of his close friends) hates him. This thread so far appears in two chapters - and I hesitated for a long time from which one to take quote for this theme. In the end, I chose a chronologically earlier one. Sammy found out about the existence of a saying that runs through the first volume and many times in the second, or "as Sammy says". While the saying is used respectfully to emphasize something important or a universal truth, its origins were such that the group of survivors who returned to the Workshop makes fun of Sammy's pomposity. Here we have a scene not long after Sammy learned this genesis...

This Sammy trait (paranoidly thinking that others are talking badly about him and mocking him) is another trait that SATIM Sammy received from me. I have a hard time to trust others - and when someone does something nice for me, I always search the trick or wonder what they really mean/what they want in return. Such a trait makes it very difficult to function in society, but at least it doesn't hurt that much when someone actually stabs you in the back... metaphorical. Which has happened to me a few times... eh...

I was wondering if priests should have some clothes (John Dot is against clothes, as he says himself, he did not go back to inky form to have to wear clothes). But I had no idea how is they style, so I gave up.

Honestly - I'm quite dissatisfied with this art. Virtually everything except the priest holding the mask in his hand required some adjustments in the computer - and not small changes, like a curved line: Sammy's legs were too long, John Dot was too short, the priest in the mask had too small a mask... even that damn chair one leg was longer and the other was shorter. That's why I gave up the background and I don't want to do shading. Terrible picture.

The plot of "Samdy Kids" takes place after Joey's death and the release of all the people from the Workshop. Bendy, together with his children and all the toons (Borises, members of the Butcher Gang), are forced to stay in the Workshop - which, however, doesn't turn out to be a bad thing, when Sammy returns to his family and begins to build New Workshop, an utopian underground country where everyone can live peacefully and happily.

Of course, the previous post was an April Fools' Day joke - I'm not going to abandon SATIM, quite the contrary. But not everything was a joke - the MYTH comic is in the making and with good winds, I'll start publishing it early in the summer vacation.

As proof that I am not kidding now, the cover I have already put on dA:

Along with the invitation to read my comic over there. I don't know if I will advertise this season here (in the sense of throwing in reminders about stripes, as I did before), so let me remind you: SATIM is published every Friday (starting from the next one), also every 13th of the month. This year, I am unlikely to post additional stripes on other occasions, sorry.

This week I'm sick and I can't do the whole strip, so I'm just giving you BONUS.

So here's last week's 98. Technical break strip.

and today you have 98. Technikal break BONUS in which I played a bit with the first and second plan.

When I was doing the BATIM birthday update, I wrote that I had a nice art idea that was based on breaking the fourth wall. I didn't manage to make it then, so I decided to make it for the birthday of the second chapter of BATIM... But I'm so "brilliant" that I didn't write this idea anywhere, believing that I would remember it.

Well, I don't remember. So instead, I decided to make a drawing of what Sammy and his surroundings would look like when SATIM turned four (I assumed we would be in about 3 series by then, so Bendy would already tolerate/maybe like Sammy a bit).

You can see full size version (and full description) on my dA.

I used a screen from the game here, for which on the birthday of Chapter 2 I went to Chapter 2... And all in tribute to the best BATIM chapter! STO LAT! (it's Polish equivalent of "Happy Birthday" and means "live a hundred years")