Courtney
Greetings, loyal readers of The Fourth, and welcome to… what must be the most boring page ever for you. We apologize! This story is designed to let new readers jump in, so we’ll be retreading a bit of familiar ground. But we’ve got some excellent new stuff planned- even some stuff quite soon that I think you guys will love, and may have wanted to see but thought we’d never show!
The comic is also going to be following, subtly, a bit of a different structure for this prequel. Since this story is intended to ultimately be read as a cohesive package, we’ll be concentrating less on the “update” mindset of making sure each page has a punchline. Jokes will be scattered about more organically, although we’ll try to make sure there’s not a page break between a set-up and payoff or anything.
Have a great weekend!
Is it me or does the statue of the second look sad?
It’s supposed to. Whoever sculpted those things was into being honest.
Again no statues of the First. Was this castle built after him, or are the Skarvas not big fans of getting the screaming-meemies just from walking down the hall?
The First wasn’t TERRIFYING or anything. It’s just not really appropriate to honor him, considering he did curse everyone in the castle (much like Prince Adam!) and was responsible for some very bad things. There are some portraits and stuff of him scattered about, but not very many, and I’ve mostly avoided showing them. Except a statue of him DID show up once in the story, and also a portrait that you could kind of see – I’m not gonna tell you where!
Blank, Blank, come on, we have door knobs.
I think that second panel could be more dynamic with some speedlines.
Yeah, Victor wants me to add a BANG. I shall add a BANG, and perhaps speed lines, and Blank shall have his dramatic entrance into every room indeed.
There is no door knob, silly. He also unlocked it, too.
The suspense! Will Blank possibly be able to make it through these highly trained and qualified enemies to reach the ruler of this castle? We have no way of knowing.
It looks tough! He’ll never make it!
Looks there’s going to be a THROWDOWN right off the bat.
“right off the bat” is more amusing when you see the next page!
I love the statues. Like, a lot.
It also took me until NOW to realize just how silly Blank’s feather is. Look at that thing. He could write with that.
I like the ‘put up yer dukes’ flish.
I wonder when Blank started kicking those doors in. He sure ain’t stopping anytime soon, though.
The world deserves a montage of Blank growing up and all the doors he has kicked down. Didn’t he kick open his own door?
*checks* Yes. http://thefourthcomic.com/?comic=over-the-river-and-through-the-woods
Well, there’s only one time and one person I’ve shown him being willing to knock for.
Who could that possibly be?
http://thefourthcomic.com/?comic=yes-there-is-still-a-princess-in-this-webcomic