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@tf2rivalsinespionagecomicupdates
Welcome to The Official Team Fortress: Rivals in Espionage Blog!
Hey everyone, this is the blog for my TF2 fan comic Team Fortress: Rivals in Espionage! It's already available to read on Tapas where it will get weekly updates, but this is where I'm gonna put concept art, progress art, and high quality page uploads (since Tapas makes me shrink them so much).
I hope you all enjoy my first webcomic!
Issue 2, pages 28-32
It's him! The guy I talked about!
I know this is a nice, big update, but I don't think my hiatus is officially over yet. We'll just have to see.
Mission Failed (we'll get 'em next time)
So, no update this month. Life happened and it really happened. I whipped this up as an apology of sorts, but I know it's not the same.
I'm as disappointed as you are. At the beginning of the month, I was motivated. I thought I'd be able to get like 7 pages done. Then shit started happening and then it became 2. Then I couldn't even get those done. I hate promising something and then not delivering on it, even in a small way, but that was the hand I was dealt this time.
Maybe in a month or two, my life will become uneventful again and I can finally introduce this damn guy.
April Fools!
Hello everyone. Usually I'd have a joke of some kind prepared for the occasion, but whatever I had in mind this year, I forgot what it was. I very suddenly became employed (and by that I literally mean yesterday) and didn't think about my comic. That being said, I feel bad for being ill prepared for today and thus my apology to you is this cool poster thing I made half a year ago for TF:RiE. I wanted to post it when Issue 2 was done but that's kinda taking forever...
So here it is now! Who are these people? What the hell are they wearing? Why is that rat so big? So many questions to add on top of the list of questions you probably already have. But they'll be answered some day. Hopefully I can end hiatus this month and be close to the end of Issue 2. I'm feeling it might be time.
Issue 2 pages 26 and 27. Bet you thought you weren't getting these two pages by the end of January, did ya? That being said, I think it's time for a proper hiatus. I have an original comic that I've been working on that I'd love to sink some more time into.
And don't worry: to those who are new, hiatus doesn't mean I stop working on Rivals in Espionage altogether, it just means I don't drop new updates for it for a while. Hopefully it's not long. See ya when I see ya.
He was about to reveal his evil plan in cartoon-villian way
But anyways
@tf2rivalsinespionagecomicupdates hi I like your story
No offence to cool mystery guy in the hat yk
I need you to know that your post made me the exact opposite of offended, it gave me life. This is so cute and wonderful! I cherish fan art of my characters and the comic. Thank you so much for sharing this with me!
Comic Artists, I Need Your Advice
Hello everyone. The holidays are over and I'm back to work on my webcomic. Progress is very slow and I would love to get more than two pages done, but I can't promise I that'll happen.
Since this is my first webcomic, I thought I'd ask wherever I can for advice on getting through the lows of a project like Rivals in Espionage. This comic means a lot to me even though it's a fanfiction. I want to finish it in a timely fashion but at the rate I'm able to make it, it'll be another 6 years before it's done, and that's an optimistic estimate. This doesn't include the spells of dissatisfaction I have with the art, writing, pacing, (you know, just any aspect of the comic) and the sketching or shading process draining my energy quickly to the point where I get very little done in a day.
I'm new to all of this so I have to ask you: What advice would you give to someone who struggles with these things?
Thank you all for reading and to my readers, you'll see me later this month.
Pages 22-25 of Issue 2 are now done. I will be skipping the December update because I'm moving for real this time and because the holidays will be busy. I'm shooting for the January update to be big though, so hopefully that'll make up for it.
See you all next year!
Handier Dandier Website Link!
Hi everyone, I decided to set up a website for my comic Team Fortress: Rivals in Espionage on ComicFury, so now you can read it on its own dedicated website instead of navigating a Drive link!
The link is: https://tfrivalsinespionage.thecomicseries.com
I'm still figuring out how this thing works and what would be the best way to format the site for my comic. If you have any tips for me, I'd appreciate them. Hope it's much easier to share now!
Meet Alex
Here's a little bit more on one of the main antagonists of my comic Team Fortress: Rivals in Espionage! You DO NOT have to read this in order to understand the comic, this is just for fun! (And if you wanna read the comic, the whole thing's on this blog!)
Alex Morissen is a Pyro for BLU team (though not the one the mercs are familiar with). Snarky, deadpan, and an avid arsonist, Alex gets to live the dream of setting Spies ablaze on the clock and singing alt rock hits in his spare time. Despite his personality, he gets along well with his team and even has a deep friendship with a few of them.
After I started creating his character, I only had a vague idea of what I wanted him to be. I knew I wanted him to be into music, but I didn't know exactly what kind of music he'd be into. Based on my friends' interests, I decided to give the album The Queen is Dead by The Smiths a listen. Then I saw a picture of Johnny Marr. I DESIGNED ALEX BEFORE I SAW THIS PICTURE, so I knew for sure this was a perfect match.
Lowkey rock with a little bit of angst and dark humor, poetic verses and casual verses working together to convey human experiences thought by most to be too mundane to be put into song, and the most important element of all: self-awareness. That's everything I wanted in this character, and I can't wait to write him more. It's a shame that Alex is stuck in 1971 and that album is a decade and a half away from coming out, because he'd be a huge fan and Johnny Marr would definitely be his role-model otherwise.
The next update will be out later this month and it will likely be 4 pages, but it'll be a hefty 4 pages. See you all then!
Just now saw one of the speech bubbles in Issue 2 was not finished properly so I'm quitting comics forever. Goodbye everyone. I'm kidding, I just went back and fixed it.
It's my pleasure to give you all pages 15-21 of Issue 2 at a record-breaking pace. It was my goal for the year to get to this twist in the story (although this is far from the only twist this story will have), so this update is huge for me personally.
I think since I'm uploading multiple pages at a time, a monthly update format would be perfectly suitable for me. I hope you all love these 7 pages and see you in November!
Thank you everyone for sticking around for my comic despite my messiness. For your patience, I plan to reward you all with something very special!
October is a special month for many reasons, but as an artist, it usually means I should do some kind of art challenge for social media. And since I’ve made an insane amount of headway on the next 7 or so pages of the comic, I’m feeling confident in being able to actually deliver the results on time.
My personal October art challenge will be to release the next update and let you all see Alex again before Halloween!
(And this time, you’ll get to see who he really is!)
I’m so excited for this next update! I hope you all are too!
Pages 10-14 are done at last!
Maybe I can finish the next few pages faster if I can manage to stuff down the urge to redraw the entire page if there's a single pose I don't like.
Woah, I'm alive? Yes yes, I'm still dedicated to working on this comic. As much as I would love to blame hopping from medicine to medicine or moving to another state for my lack of activity, I have to admit that I've been lazy. The update won't be coming out anytime super soon. I'm just letting you all know I'm still on it and dedicated to it.
Issue 2, Pages 5-9
Finally got to the issue title!
Issue 2, Page 5
My comic has been taking too long so I just decided to speed up the pacing a bit and get to the real meat of this story. You see, plot twists are fun and all, but they require this stupid thing called "setup".
I say screw that! I want my twist now! I'll bet none of you could have seen this one coming! I'm always one step ahead of you!!
