#ufficio&lilized

[ufficiosulretro]

Reaper76Week 2018 || Day 7: “Depth of relationship” (shared lifetime/togetherness) Day 1 || Day 2 || Day 3 || Day 4 || Day 5 || Day 6 || Day 7

@lilized: Whoooo! Can you believe we did it?! BECAUSE I CAN’T. Thank you all for sticking with us ‘till now and for your patience. To make amends for the extra time we thought about a juicy bonus scene, set between Day 6 and 7.

It’ll take a little while, cause we only just started working on it, but I think you’ll love it.

There are really no words for how great this experience was for me, working with Irene, seeing my stupid words brought to life in such an extraordinary way...it was incredible.

@ufficiosulretro: When we first started to work on this comic, we discovered that we couldn’t figure anything detailed to tell about Day 7’s theme, since Jack and Gabe were just at the beginning of their story together. We struggled a lot before to surrender to the concept that it wasn’t necessary to tell anything specific to suggest what we all already know about these guys, such as how they fought side by side and loved each other for a lifetime.

In this update we also reveal you the title we thought for this comic, No One Else, and how much Livia and I love to use Jack’s or Gabriel’s quotes to name our comics, you don’t have idea. Ahah!

I think I could say the same: I can’t believe we made it.

Pretty late, as usual, like for everything in my life, but I’m glad I was able to finish a project in a relatively short time. It’s something that really helps out noticing your progresses in something, no matter what (art, writing, studying, anything.) It has not happened in a long and I was definitely starting to give up on some major projects for this exact reason, feeling stuck like I was right about to get into some sort of artblock... again.

We will soon post the full comic for you to see and share and, as @lilized already mentioned, an extra scene. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed the ride! Nothing of this would have been as fun and brilliant and cool if Livia hadn’t wrote such fantastic story and dialogues, suggested the best ideas and pointed the perfect corrections.

(@lilized: AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!)

We worked so well together. :’)

Thank you, thank you a lot for every kind word you spent to let us know how much you liked our work. Despite the suffering of making comics, writing or drawing in general, making this comic and drawing or writing about Jack and Gabriel is always fun and brightens our life.

(But a little more of lore would be gladly appreciated - dear Jeff, where’s my Omnic Crisis Event, uh? Where is it?!)

(@lilized: Where is it, Jeff?????)

[ufficiosulretro]

Reaper76Week 2018 || Day 6: “Questionable Actions” (secrets/revelations) Day 1 || Day 2 || Day 3 || Day 4 || Day 5 || Day 6 || Day 7

@ufficiosulretro:

I really love drawing Jack’s profile, can you tell?

Seriously, now: I think my favorite part in this update is that we get to see the rise of Jack Morrison. I loved how @lilized gave me the chance to explore this moment with the perfect dialogue she wrote for him and for Gabriel.

If you don’t think that the army will make a use of those old fashioned tents in 2040, you’re possibly right. Still, I preferred that option instead of any sort of a more physical camp structure because I really wanted to draw Jack’s shadow projection upon Gabriel’s body and I thought that only a tent could give me the chance to.

Even after all those snake-omnics, I simply had to put a bird somewhere in this comic and we proudly continued the tradition of Gabriel’s shrug.

Woah, I can’t believe we’re almost there. I fear you’ll have to wait a little more for the next (but not last) update. I’m very sorry, but it’ll be worth it, I swear. :P

@lilized:

Despite what he said to Jack in the last update, Gabriel did, in fact, slightly obsess over what went wrong in the other team’s mission - though I’m sure he wouldn’t agree with this characterization- and is generally very worried about the fact that the Omnic threat is being underestimated. Reason why he spends the nights pouring over maps and reports trying to figure things out. A lot of good soldiers would like to use the computers to speak with their loved ones but feel like the mood would be soured somewhat by Gabriel Reyes pacing around, talking to himself. Crazy, right?

[ufficiosulretro]

Wow I just want to say that the comics you did for Rpear76 week are so inspiring!! I love the lineweight and how you balance monochrome with bursts of colour to make it pop out. You have a great sense of pacing and the flow of your frame layout is great and a pleasure to read. It has a really amazing cinematic quality toit. If you get hired for an original comic or if you make one yourself... please post about it so I can read and support you!!

Oh, hello! First of all, OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! That’s a very insightful comment and you really seem to know your stuff about comics. Your compliment is even more appreciated. :)

Then, Anon number 2 also asked: 

“Hi i just wanted to let you know that i LOVE the comics and all the wonderful art!! I just wanted to know if you guys have any published comics/webtoons i would really really love to read more of the comics!!”

You’ll be both very happy to know that @lilized and I are actually choosing from several stories to make an original comic. So, yeah, it’s official. We’re a team. YEEEEEEEH! We’ll let you know more about it when the time comes. :>

In the meantime, let us thank you again for your love and support! :3