Your art is always a treat to look at! I love your use of color, and you've got such a solid handle on both anatomy and how to stretch it into interesting body language, expressions, etc. I also love how you write dialogue to represent how people actually talk, including how people's speech is different from person to person. And it almost goes without saying, but your monster design is so on point. Wynne is great, and the way you interpreted Proto-2 is so badass and powerful looking. I love how you used camera angles at the beginning to really drive home how big he is. I also love the clever censorship of his crotch region XD

My biggest issue with your art is clarity. For the most part, I can tell what's what in every panel, and your coloring carries a lot of that. But sometimes details get lost in a sea of other details. I think some of it comes from shots being cropped too close to the characters' faces and not leaving enough space in the background to clearly show details that would establish that character's location within previously established environments. Page 5 confused me at first, because I wasn't sure where the opening to the caravan was in relation to the huge interior. After reviewing it a couple times, I can clearly see the curtain in panel 1 that is being pulled aside in the full-page spread, but the colors are close enough to what Wynne is wearing that it didn't read clearly enough for me at first. I think zooming out panel 1 a bit more to make it clearer that he's pulling aside a curtain would have helped, as well as playing around a bit more with line widths or using more contrast between how you color foreground, midground, and background elements. I can tell you used color to help here, and part of the issue is just that Wynne has such a light body. His design got a bit lost in the architecture for me, and darkening him up just a bit more would have helped my dumb brain vision realize the obvious fact that Wynne is not architecture haha.

From a writing standpoint, my issue with this comic in particular comes from two jumps that felt like they weren't communicated clearly enough. The first is between pages 2 and 3. I must have missed the "Day 4" in the upper left corner, because I couldn't figure out if we were in the same spot as before or what. My brain figured it out after a few seconds, but making the sky blue or some other non-yellow color would have helped my baby brain immediately understand that we had moved through time and space. My bigger confusion came between pages 6 and 7. Re-reading it, I'm actually getting chills from how you took the white threads coming from Wynne (if I'm reading this correctly) and morphed them into the threads Juniper used to tie up Redacted in the past. But it wasn't really clear to me what was happening to send Proto-2 into Redacted's memories, and since we haven't seen a lot from Wynne and how his powers work, I think I could have used a bit more explicit explanation of what was going on. Maybe dialogue at the top of page 7, or Wynne's face fading out as Proto-2 falls out of panel or something? I'd be happy to brainstorm other ideas if you want, because I'm not sure what the best option would have been there.

The whole segment of going through Redacted's memories here was actually super cool. I'm not sure I would have understood what was happening if I hadn't read Redacted's comics, although I would hope the explanation at the end of sending Proto-2 through his steps would explain it. But either way, the way you took key plot points from Redacted's comics and drew Proto-2 experiencing the exact same events was really cool! I even love how you paid attention to things like color schemes and camera angles to really drive home that these were the exact same events. The scar that came as a result is really cool. I'm not sure I understand why it happened, but I love how it looks.

From a broader narrative perspective, Wynne's story suffers from something I tend to do in my battles, which is giving much more attention to your opponent's story than to your own. I want to know more about Wynne, and so far he's been more of a side character than a protagonist. That's probably intentional, and I don't think that's a common issue in your other comics, but I guess I'm just whiny because I want more Wynne and you're holding out on me haha. I hope we get to see more of him and understand more of who he is and what drives him!

Something I love about your comics with both Proto-2 and Redacted is how you don't shy away from the reality of their violent natures, while also making their humanity clear. So far, Proto-2 feels less human than Redacted, and I hope that's intentional because that means the ISA is creating stronger monsters by stripping away more and more of their humanity, which is a really cool theme. Also, maybe it's Old VOID speaking to me, or maybe it's just who I am as a person, but there's something so satisfying about just ripping apart an opponent's character haha. Your crazy dinos certainly scratch that itch.

Art-wise, I really enjoy your chunky lines and heavy blacks, and would encourage you to experiment more with thinner lines from time to time. I feel like you're going for something along the lines of Frank Miller's inking style, and I'm here for it, but I think there's more to it than just thick lines. I highly recommend checking out Frank Miller either way to get inspiration if you want to keep using spot blacks heavily. Sometimes, thick lines just obscure the details in your shapes, so keep an eye on that. Your coloring is also great; I'm in love with the glowing fiery yellow and red eyes of Proto-2 in contrast with the dark night, as well as Wynne's spooky purple magic.

Writing-wise, Wynne feels like a cross between a southern preacher and a town sheriff, and I love how he's got this insight that bores right into Proto-2's soul. The dialogue also highlights how much Proto-2's humanity is gone. The flashback was a little confusing because I wasn't sure who was who, but I'm pretty sure the message was that Proto-2 did something shitty as a human, and Wynne can see that, too. It's not just the ISA's experiments that made him like this; he was already willing to hurt others for his own goals. I'm sorry if that wasn't the message you were trying to send, but I really like it so I hope I got it right haha.

There are really only two things writing-wise that didn't make sense to me. The first is that I don't get why Wynne was sent to stop Proto-2. Was he literally sent by someone? If so, who? If you meant that to be a secret, you could have given a better indication that someone specific had hired Wynne or whatever. If it's figurative, and Wynne is there because of some sense of justice, the language about being created by someone else and sent there wouldn't make sense. I'm guessing it's the former case, but either way, I think you could have hinted a bit better at that. Not really the biggest deal tbh, but it was a point of confusion for me. The other issue is just a bit nitpicky, but that river looks way too small to carry Proto-2 anywhere against his will. It would have been much more interesting to read if Wynne had knocked him off a cliff into some giant river that was already gushing water. Maybe throw in some white water rapids to show how hard it's pulling. Right now, it looks like he fell into a creek that is inexplicably way deeper than a creek of that size should be. I know it's nitpicky, but I think it's the kind of environment detail you really need to think about as you're scripting and thumbing so you can give it more of an impact when it happens. I love that you made the river central to the comic, both through Wynne turning it into a metaphor and through just drawing it in multiple panels; that was perfect. If you had just made it bigger and more dangerous looking, the impact would have been that much bigger.

Overall, I know both of those writing-related things are kinda nitpicky, but I hope they're still useful. TL;DR: great use of color and heavy blacks, but check out Frank Miller and experiment more with thin lines that bring out the tiny details in your characters and environments; I love your combination of heavy violence and humanity in both Proto-2's and Redacted's stories, and the way you wrote Wynne was fun, but Wynne's motivation for being there to stop Proto-2 was unclear to me, and the river could have made a much better impact if you'd put more work into making it look big and scary. Thanks for the comics, and I look forward to what happens next!

I really dig this approach to your drawing, and the way you draw your settings is something I'd like to study to better improve my own backgrounds.  This was a huge callback to Redacted's current saga, and the angles and shots are varied enough from the original to justify using the scenes for the narrative.  That being said, there was a heavy reliance on those scenes and dialog to verify what Wynne was doing.  I don't know if there was a better way to convey his assistance without delivering the same words verbatim--maybe just to nix the words and focus on the actions themselves?  It's a creative difference.
I do like the wrap-up in the end of your entry, you're definitely preparing yourself for a Death Match, should the results of this round deem you worthy of the match.  It shows you're looking at the long-term narrative in the context of this tournament, something that would make Chimera smile.  So, good job.

I like the stylistic continuation from your last round.  It shows that this happens immediately after the events of Dog, the blood's still warm on his hands.  The "howdy" introduction got a snort from me, but then Wynne begins to speak as some kinda loquacious thumper, and I'm not sure how well that works for his motivations.
Something I found a little disturbing is that Prototype doesn't speak or emote beyond his gritted teeth look.  If the struggle between embracing his beastial nature versus maintaing his humanity is the focal point of his arc, I've yet to see him use his words.  I want to know what's going on in this dude's head.  Redacted is all talk with some action.  If Prototype is meant to be his foil, I want to see at least some dialog.

Now that I've talked about the comic, I need to discuss something else--
It's fine to be nervous about the outcome of this round.  Scar matches can be very intense.  But these matches are not forced upon artists.  They agree to participate in them and are aware that there may be consequences.  If you lose this battle, take it in stride.  There have been better scars, sure, but there have also been much worse.  If yours is just Prototype missing a finger and having the top layer of his color scheme halved to look like Redacted, I don't see the problem.

No bracelet?  No problem!  He's no longer following the commands of ISA and he can rely more on his hunting instinct to track down his target.  Embrace his inner beast, OR tap into his humanity when he finally meets Redacted and see he's a kindred spirit in a sucky situation without his bosses needing to know about it.
Or what if they do?  Do they realize he's lost his bracelet?  When do they realize it?  And to what end would they go to try to get not one, but two dinosaurs back?
It's something you can weave into his narrative, and that's the silver lining to look for.

Why am I writing this in this comment?  Because I've read your posts in the past, and I need to let you know right now that this is such a small thing to be worked up over.  I get the stress of tournament voting, I really do.  But this is really nothing to be up in arms about.

 I hate to say this but astro I'm not liking your comic. I felt you hadn't captured proto in the manner I described to you, or I'm just shit at explaining things.  Hes supposed to be this monstrous bestial terminator like character,  you just made him look like a lost weak incompetent idiot. In reality he would never seek out for help unless he was commanded by the ISA, self sustaining and what not. But again,  I probably didn't convey it well enough.

And in  hindsight the scar I should've said something. At first I had imagined something different, but you ended up just straight up copying several panels in my comics, even right down to the angling perspective like the gutsmasher one. It felt borderline plagiarizing.

Your round 1 comic was better because it felt original. Then again proto is a stupid character.

You also didn't mention taking the wristband but Ive already said itll be useless with proto being detached from it.

Idk. I feel like an asshole because I didn't convey things right for you, and this whole tournament was just stressful for me  definitely my worst comics I've written so im just gonna retire proto. I dont mind losing,  I'm just upset they way it occured.

I'm sorry.

I reiterate. I'm not upset on losing, I expected to lose from the start. I just felt that maybe the comic could've had more variation if it was being referenced from my previous comics, but I just felt it were direct copies. I liked the Juniper part, that was good, I liked it. Everything else just felt weak.