#noxsylvania

[onenicebugperday]

Reminded me that earlier this month I dedicated a whole page to these badly drawn flies.

Sick dance moves

[flightyalrighty]

Crazy to me that people follow you for a horror comic then get upset with you when it’s a horror comic.

Killing children in horror is a well regarded theme in horror. It’s not “wow it’s so cool when kids die” but the fact that the story addresses vulnerability and the narrative purpose that serves. Like I can vaguely understand why people would be so shocked to see a well beloved character die, but y’all signed up for that when reading a HORROR comic.

Anyways as someone who is just starting to get into making horror comics I deeply deeply admire your work here. You’ve been doing an amazing job at building suspense especially with traditional webcomic style of page-by-page release. Keep it up, I hope you are having as much fun making this story as it’s been to read :D

Thanks so much for this ask, and for reading Infested! I'm wishing you, as well, absolute best of luck and much glee in the creation of your own horror comics! It's one heckavuh ride, making comics, that's for sure, but even if not every part of the process appeals to you, the end result will always be worth it. Longer stuff ahead.

As one person in the Infested Discord pointed out, I can't understand people (there have been three so far) griping about Tails being killed for the narrative when Maria, who is also very much a child who was murdered for the narrative, exists in a game that isn't labeled "horror."

Do these same people have a problem with that? Do they angrily write to Sonic Team about it, claiming the E10+ rating for "mild cartoon violence" was not enough of a warning? Or do they let that slide because Maria's death is integral to the story of Sonic Adventure 2, and to Shadow's character arc. As if Tails's death doesn't fill a similarly important role in Infested.

I seem to not be allowed a bit of trust that I know what I'm doing by killing Tails. It's treated like a mistake. That last person called it a "plot hole" (???), sharing a similar sentiment with someone else on Twitter that felt that Tails was simply too smart to die. Whatever that means. Never once do these folks consider that it is IMMENSELY important for this story that Tails dies, and does so in the way that he does. I can't simply change who dies, because who dies is deeply important to the soul of Infested. To the point of it. It, and it's sequel.

Yes, Tails's death is just as important to the sequel.

The story isn't over yet, and the means in which that event played out haven't been revealed. As many obnoxious people have already said many times before me; Patience is a virtue.

[ex-riddlecats]

Nick I was talking to my partner yesterday about Gotham Rogues and I was like “yeah I know a guy who’s just really really into the Riddler and that’s where 99% of my knowledge of the character comes from ask canceled look at my cat right now

AWWWW KISSY KISSY MWAH MWAH MWAH

[fibul]

Happy Birthday Lovelyn!!! I hope you have a lovely day 💛💛💛🎉🎉🎉🎉

THANK YOU NOX!!! i've had a great day so far :) went to an arcade and have been hanging out with my girlfriend ^_^

[tenya]

COLOR STUFF 👀👀👀?!?!?!!!

if u wanna 😳

[liquidstar]

could you tell me more about angelonia? i really dig her design. i wanna know about all of them but i figured i’d ask about her first :)

Yeah of course :0 Angelonia’s whole deal is that she lives in your phone :)

She’s not an AI or an app or anything else like that, she’s a fully organic living human being. Or, at least she was at some point. She basically used her magic to upload her entire consciousness to her computer, she made herself digital, just a set of numbers and pixels but still a fully sentient one none-the-less. This doesn’t come without a price of course, her actual living body? Well, it’s dead now! Yippee!

Angelonia used to be a complete shut-in, she would never leave her house, no job or social life to speak of. She made money selling off things she’d created- she really was a genius in terms of technology and tech magic, and she knew it. Her entire existence was practically online, she didn’t need anything beyond that. She’d created a facade of herself on there, a better version of who she is, and she had an ego about it.

Eventually her mentality about this shifted into a bit of mad scientist territory, where she made herself the test subject. Now her existence would LITERALLY only be online and the digital sky was the limit for her. Her old self was dead and she had completely remade herself, her facade had come to life. Her personality is a lot more outwardly arrogant, cocky, care-free, and smug. And that’s all part of the image she wants to project (literally, she’s often depicted as a hologram projecting out of people’s phones if not just on a screen), she wants to be seen as amazing, that’s her vanity. But not necessarily pride- it’s how she wants to be seen, not how she sees herself.

With her I did something slightly different from how most of the other characters are designed. Her actual color is red but she herself is draped in green with red as an accent instead of having it as the main color, unlike when she was alive. it’s an incredibly extreme case of rejecting her true self and putting on a larger front, and it’s not as if she has low self esteem per say because she still does have an ego, it just comes from the way other people see her.

Her glitch magic is very powerful too, she’s essentially a computer virus and a hacker all in one, and that causes a lot of issues for the protags for the nextgen story since a main focus of it IS on technology, she’s a Problem problem. But for the other antagonists, well, she’s just their quirky little forum mascot.

[noxsylvania]

Serendipity is honestly so hard to draw because it's difficult to draw a character when their THAT pretty. I fell like I didn't do half bad with the washi tape! I've never really used it until now.

[ex-riddlecats]

WHY DOES THIS SHIT ALWAYS HAPPEN TO YOU?????? I’m sorry you’re in the shit today Nick. Here’s one of my kitties as a palette cleanser:

awwww babyyy... mwah mwah mwah. football shaped but i would never kick