#trype

In the most recent updates of my webcomic, VEGABOND, Hyla finds a gun and immediately shoots her friends' arm off. How will they treat this injury while already in the middle of a crisis situation? Is losing an arm even THAT big of a deal to whatever type of alien Trype is??

I recently made the decision to ANIMATE the introductory portion of VEGABOND instead of just making it a standard comic chapter, that way I can showcase the project’s new sick as hell theme music! This will set the release back slightly but I’ve privately uploaded the theme itself so you can give it a listen a little early. Here’s some super secret first looks at some screenshots from the animation as well.

Although I am familiar with that movie it’s not really related, though the idea of a degenerating, moronic, shallow, society is totally in line with the Obverse, which her people are a sub-faction of. Her inspiration comes from actual devolution. Like how dolphins for whatever reason devolved from being land mammals to sea mammals that still have to breathe air, or how cave animals can completely lose their eyes and develop soft, transparent skin. Trype is a combination in that she’s an eyeless planarian thing covered in blowholes. I modeled her face off a beluga whale, an animal I find particularly awful.     

 I thought it’d be funny if these abominable, inconvenient mutations were considered attractive among her species in the same way humans glorify similarly nonsensical traits. I wanted there to be conflict that Trype is used to being treated as impossibly desirable and beautiful among her own kind but when she leaves them she’s viewed as lowly and repulsive to most other species. Even her name “Trype” is literally a synonym for garbage as well as a greek word for “Holes”.