Side Dishes 4: It CAME Again!! (Patreon)
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Based on the winning suggestion, this story is going to pick up AFTER the aliens have already successfully taken over the St. Maria's Women's Research Center. Of course, there's still the question of whether we want the story to pick up immediately after the aliens have mostly taken over, or if we want to have it be days, weeks, or months after the events. There's also the question of who we want our lead characters to be... at this point the only person from the research center we have confirmed is Anastasia as the Captain. In the original cast Jackie and Bianca were completely hypnotized by the alien, but I noticed that Lisette was never actually hypnotized properly... on top of that, the sperm of her species has an adverse effect on the aliens, so there's some potential there.
I'm also considering changing the nature of Side Dishes and Shortcake to allow for me to focus on just one series at a time. Right now the idea I like most is that I'll switch between the two, and draw two pages each week for whichever story is active. That means that I'll work on this chapter of Side Dishes to completion with two pages every week, then after that I'll spend three weeks working on a new Shortcake chapter (since they're 5 pages long plus a cover), then back to Side Dishes for however long it takes. Although to be honest I might give myself the option to take a day off, in case I'm having a rough week lol.
Although with the change of the comic to two pages a week, it would be harder for fans to vote on each individual page, or to offer two-page suggestions each week. Bt one recommendation is for the vote to be more "broad stroke"... offering up ideas for story arcs and events, but not so much for what should happen in each individual page. I might open up that idea to a vote later this week as we hammer out the details and I answer any questions anyone might have.
Lol speaking of next week, to be honest this little bit of serendipity of Shortcake and Side Dishes completing around the same time has me feeling like it's about time I finally took a few days off. So I'm planning for next weekend to be my first weekend off in what feels like at least a year... I can't remember the last time I took two days off in a row. I feel like I just kind of need that sometime soon, if only to do laundry and get my house in order.