Sure thing, guys! I love all of your characters, and I want to do more comics with Leland. I wish you all good luck! C:

Same here. You have an interesting character Zest and I would love to have our two characters meet someday and see what happens. :)

Save a fight for me Amanita :), I want to fight you someday! :D

Congrats on winning, Xin! I can't wait to see your next match-up. Maybe we can do another battle someday. C:

@ Xin: It's unfortunate that you didn't get to polish this up more. But as always I love the soft style of your artwork, it's very unique. I liked the story, though I got a bit lost once when I read the part with Hobo stealing the food, I wasn't sure who was saying what and had to read it over a bit. @ Amanita: I wish you could have finished your comic, because the story was really nice and a creative confrontation. I LOVED that Hobo was driving the motorcycle and Madelyn was sniping from the sidecar, that was pure awesomeness, best character introduction ever in my opinion. Hobo is a damn good driver. XD

Too bad you too didn't have more time. Xintastic- I love your art, the inks could have been tighter but I like the presentation and the story, I can learn a lot from you. Amanita- I wish you had more time to actually clean the comic and finish inking it but I dig it. My advice for your panels is to try a caligraphy pen, the flat tip may benefit you.

ZestyAmanita- That was so cool! That one panel of Madelyn sniping from the sidecar is badass! It was a pleasure battling with you. :^D William- Yea, I need to make my lines darker. Oh god, looking at my drawings is like looking at myself...all timid and non-committal. Whyyy!! JK, thanks for your input it's greatly appreciated. Wade- Thanks for putting so much effort into writing that critique. I totally agree, I'm being too careless and I forget how mistakes like that can confuse the audience.

@Xin You really need to be careful with your placement of balloons. In some panels they overcrowd like in the first panel of page 5. But the big problem I see is when they crisscross like in first horizontal panel of page 2. This really confused me as I was reading your comic and it threw off my comprehension of the rest of the story. I did love how you drew Leland and I really like how you draw, it's just simple oversights that will kill your story. Also if Leland was giving away the hot dog why does he later refer to it as his food? Similarly since you only showed us one hotdog, why does Leland yell at Hobo(the dog) for running off with "Those Hotdogs?" @Amanita Quality aside, I thought your story was really entertaining. One thing I would watch out for is those really active marks in the panel where Madeyln reloads and then whizzes past. Perhaps a better division of panels would help because I don't really mind them from panel two to three. I think what makes them stand out so much to me on panel two is their uniformity. Plus the negative square shapes draw more attention to the lines rather than act as any sort of background. But that's only what I see when I really look at it, when I first read through it I really felt the entrance scene so something you're doing is working there. A couple of questions though, what is that in the first panel of the first page? And also, how does Leland not know what a gun sounds like? I feel like he should know and should be more scared, not really just curious, especially when he sees someone drop in front of him. I'm fine with him being naive about zombies since he's in a place where there are all kinds of creatures, but come on, even if he doesn't know what a gunshot is BANG, DROP = freaking the fuck out. Also, if you're being kind to a person alive or undead, treating them like a human in any capacity, would your response to the person who just killed a dude be "thanks for saving my skin" since to you that person was alive? Or would you be more freaked out about the fact that you just saw someone killed in front your eyes and then yelling at murderer demanding to know why she just killed that dude? Definitely try to get a little deeper into your character's heads. Wow, didn't mean to be so long winded.

I like both of you guys and your characters. Amanita's only fault here is that you're gonna suffer for the quality. Xin doesn't have enough contrast and the comic is too light overall. Needs black, everything is better with pitch black darkness... or just something dark.

Wow, Xin, you did an awesome job with Leland! I'm glad to see you got your comic submitted in time. C:

Uploaded. I apologize for the pacing and sketchiness ahead of time.

this one will be sweet XD

AW. THIS IS TOO SOON. THIS IS LIKE SOPHIE'S CHOICE WITH COMICS.