It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin’
Volume 2 Omake Collection
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Do these jokes make no sense to you? Better read IKROAH Vol. 2 if you haven't already! Or re-read it if you have, now, because it's the perfect time to catch up.
Remember the first omake collection? From Volume 1? From 2021?? Well they're back! And long overdue for Volume 2, which concluded in May of last year, and which hasn't been succeeded by anything except the covers to Volume 3 which were posted almost a whole year ago.
A big reason for the hiatus was that I once again had to try to completely relearn how to draw; the fact is that I am sick to death of digital coloring and post-processing and that meant I had to finally face my oldest artistic bugbear: inking. Real, actual inking with real, actual ink, and not just bullshitting it like I feel like I've been for years now. These omake strips provided the perfect opportunity to practice a new approach to inking with quick, dirty, simple strips, and I think the results speak for themselves.
Hand-lettering, however, was definitely a mere experiment and not one I think I'll stick with. My hands are too shaky to consistently write legibly, and fucking it up feels so much worse than fucking up anything else with a permanent marker. So that's the one thing I'll probably still have to figure out how to do digitally in a way that'll look good with these inks.
Anyway, Volume 3 kicks off soon, and I do mean soon. I know that IKROAH has been asleep for some time, but folks, I mean this sincerely: 2026 is gonna be the Year of Agnes. There's some real big things coming down the pipe. Stay tuned!