Hey everyone, remember how you’ve always been able to donate $10 to have yourself appear in one of our comics? Well, we’ve decided to put together a system that will allow you even more chances to contribute designs to The Fourth! Here are the details:
- $10 will still get you a cameo of your human self in the background of one of our comics! All we need is a picture and you’ll be featured. However, this will be a very limited
appearance; typically you’ll just be standing around. You can pay for this reward just once, so make it count! - $15 allows you to design a Lurkin or Flish (or perhaps a demon or ghost, in some cases) of your very own! Again, limited to mostly just standing around, but you can help us populate Castle Skärva. Just remember: Lurkins are always supposed to wear their uniforms and can’t have much (if any) hair showing in the Castle, so if you want those details included you’ll have to wait a bit longer. We’ll allow resubmissions of this reward tier (i.e. if you want to design another Lurkin, you just have to pay another $15 and let us know).
- $25 gets you a character who will interact with one of the main characters once. You can either provide a picture of yourself or design a Lurkin/Flish. Keep in mind that we can’t always feature every type of character. Again, we’ll allow resubmissions on Lurins/Flish/other minions but not yourself.
- $35 gets you the chance to design a recurring Lurkin, Flish, etc. This character will be seen frequently in backgrounds and may even be used for small dialog (such as delivering a message). Unfortunately, no human characters – it would be a bit weird to have a specific person show up frequently at this price point. Resubmissions allowed in this case as well.
- $50 lets you design a recurring Lurkin, Flish, etc that will also have a personality of your choosing. This means your character will show up perhaps a bit more frequently and will likely have a minor role in the story. A good example would be one of Gilly’s friends, or some as-of-yet-to-be-determined minor characters. Keep in mind that we’ll have to approve your personality choice, and you won’t get a chance to actually write any of the dialogue – although if you’re very specific with the personality, we’d be inclined to make it work. No resubmissions here, by the way. We don’t want you guys to design all our characters!
- $100 lets you include yourself as a minor recurring character! Expensive, yes, because we don’t expect anyone to do it really. I honestly don’t know how this one would work, given that we don’t have many chances for human characters to recur, but we’ll cross that bridge when someone donates $100! This one would work similarly to the $35 Lurkin/Flish/minion reward. No resubmissions on this one, for obvious reasons.
Of course, if you just want to donate money you can always do that. Your characters also don’t have to appear right away – in fact, there’s a good chance we won’t be able to include them right away unless the timing is perfect. For example, we could really use Lurkins, Flish, and ghosts for the upcoming fight scenes in Castle Skärva, but later arcs might not allow us to include certain character types. If you decide to donate toward one of the rewards, just give us your specifications and we’ll include the character when the time is right. We’ll also allow you to design more character types as more become available. We do reserve the right to change our minds about any of these reward tiers, either by altering the description or changing the price in some way. We’ll be reasonable with any changes, though, and try to work with you should any problems arise.
Remember: any money you donate to The Fourth will go right back into the site, either to help pay operating costs or to help fund ad campaigns. If we somehow make more money than we expect with this, maybe some will go toward more art tools and the like, but I doubt that will come up. Keep an eye out once summer starts, too, because Courtney will probably open up general commission rates as well!
Hello!
I saw your comic in an ad on Awkward Zombie (so if you were wondering, those things work) And it looked interesting. I then started reading your many comics, and fell in love.
(Don’t worry, I don’t blame you for that nights missing homework :P)
I have been following your comic since, and I love it!
The sheer awesomeness of the comic, along with Davis’ bow-tie, made me
A) Post on Facebook about how wonderful this is and stiff
B) Comment, because I have not done so before.
I would apologize for making you read this wall of text, but apparently you like this sort of thing.
You rock!
~Nate
P.S. Why doesn’t Victor ever reply?
Well I feel extremely stupid now, I posted this on the donations page *facepalm*
I thought you were going to make a donation. GEE THANKS FOR GETTING MY HOPES UP
Nah, it’s no problem, really! Comments like this really do mean so much to both of us! I’m really glad you like the comic. Also, monocles are one of the things in life that can rival bowties for awesomeness, and perhaps someday Davis will wear them both, along with a top hat.
Victor should reply to tell you why he doesn’t reply. But he won’t, so I’ll just go ahead. He appreciates comments too, but he’s kinda shy. Also I think he’s afraid of saying too much, as the writer. He doesn’t want to give anything away or use the comments as a workspace for our worldbuilding. Whereas I can spew off any kind of crap I want and we can later discount it, if we need to, as being either just a joke, or the ramblings of the silly artist, which were never canon in the first place.
We hope to see you around, Nate!
Donation? Ill see what I can do!
I think a nice official moustache would render the three absolete.
I think I see why. I would probably be shy too
Ill be around!