OOOUUUGHH I did it! I was lucky enough to have most of spring break to work on this, so I had plenty of time to nearly double the page length. This comic also includes the very first time that I had ever drawn an action scene in comic format (if you could even call it an action scene, lmao). I had to get SUPER sketchy for the last few pages though. :[
I feel like this comic still suffers from the main flaws of my first round (very same-y panels, lack of full bodies, too much time spent on the characters doing FA, and don’t you dare evEN LOOK AT THAT FIRST PAGE-), but I’m still pretty proud of how it came out! Hell, I even got the opportunity to show off with a tiny bit of color! I’m still pretty sure that I’m gonna lose this round, but it’s really nice to see how much I can do underneath such time constraints.

Anyways, while I really struggled to figure out how this round would play out at first, I honestly feel like it wound up being the perfect matchup! Terror Hunter’s occasional trickery really helped give a slower slide in tone, from Cedric’s friendliness & positivity to the majority of the cast’s general evilness. There were still a bunch of different ideas that I had to juggle around and switch out. Something that I REALLY wish that I had the time to include was my original idea of only Cedric going missing, which would’ve made the majority of the comic all about Ström & 01 bickering with each other while Terror Hunter subtly eggs them on from the side for his own entertainment. I feel like the dynamic between all three of them would’ve been really fun to see (and I part of me almost wants to draw just a tiny bit of it anyways)!

I messed up and couldn't quite get out what I wanted with this rounds story but I feel like I got the important bits in there??? anyways enjoy!