Darius arming the pesants
Hello! Sorry We missed Friday, we've had a busy week here at pisfits productions with real life stuff, good things! Hopeful but very time consuming Heres to the eventual payoff! We've been spending sometime now with the boys here at their farm getting to know them and I think that we have a good idea now who they are and their relationship together, I enjoy writing the two of them alot and the comic has dramatically changed from its initial outset based on my love of Deshyn in particular. As Darius' family was initially more of a footnote in the story I wanted to create, but as it developed I realized that Deshyn demanded to be a realized character and as that thread unravelled he has found himself a central figure to the narrative, and I think in understanding him we will get to know Darius as well. Which is why these initial pages for me are so important, I worry ALOT about how my writing will be interpreted and often will will be doing rewrites on the dialogue even hours before release. This page especially I found that the initial explanation Deshyn gave to Darius was how HE would understand it not Darius and Deshyn almost told me "hey mr. writer Darius is not gunna get it if we start talking about capital and investments," And oh right Darius is a fighter and scrappy ok so Shields he clearly has some background working with a blacksmith so he'll get that. Anyways just a little inside exploration on my writing process if you care about that.
I've been reading a few comics lately that have drawn my attention, being on the topwebcomics site now has given me ample material to read through and as someone with Adhd its REALLY easy for me to get distracted with cool NEW shiny thing. So I remembered my initial idea of reviewing the comics in the webring and pulled myself into a story on there as it does have some incredible creators. Although I don't feel as if I have read ENOUGH of my current selection to give it a proper review so instead I will not try and give a half ass review and instead just ask you for some patience in that regard. (Heck I have'nt even found the time to play silksong lately :( ) Anyways that is the update on that project. So Hopefully we can look forward to that on Friday.
I am considering moving this to a more visible channel possibly directly onto the home page infact, as I do not believe that it ALONE justifys its entirely own page and at the moment I have not seen myself fit to give this webpage the updates it deserves, and so I think until that time when I am able to get more things up and running it would be better to consolidate instead of seperate things, so if you are reading this and it IS on the home page know that this is why you are seeing it now!
We posted a new ilustration on put instagram, I think we'll be starting a gallery as well here in the future but if you like to check that out please do it has an nba star Grubber in it, hilariously our first official depiction of the creature as they have only been mentioned briefly in the comic at this point. Well anyways enjoy the page and keep us updated on your favourite things about this comic and comics in general we love to hear it! Farewell!
Shape language of our Gorse
so we have finally returned with issue two of Dreams End! Thanks for allowing us this week off as we geared up into our second issue. We've put tons of time this week preparing the pages and getting ready for our release and its been worth it! Looking over what we have made makes me so so excited to share it with you and take you on this trip with the brothers. We also have some more exciting art that we will be sharing in the near future for our favourite spooky holiday! So look out for that. We are playing around with some ideas for a patreon and how we can use that to create more interesting things or share parts of the development with you guys. Character and scene sketches, future character prototype art, sharing the comic issues earlier in B&W. Things that may be fun to check out but not needed to enjoy the comic on its own. All of the proceeds that we receive at Pisfits Publishing will always go back into the comic, and the inevitable release of a physical edition of the story which is our eventual goal. So if that sounds cool to you let us know! And enjoy the new page this week and we will see you back here on Friday with our usual announcents.
Gorse in the mud
So thats a wrap on issue 1! Glad we got to get them off that hill of theirs, of course they couldn't just walk down are you insane?! As you'll soon discover falling are these boys speciality. So much thanks for you dear reader doubly so if you have also been reading these ramblings of ours over here. Anyways what ARE we rambling about today?
Well whats this weeks comic we've been checking out? Prophet of the sun! Right away I was loving the moody colors and overcast of red that hung over the pages, that perfect silohuettes or protagonists own mood, as they navigate the challenges of the sun and its responsibilities towards people that are not very nice! The juxtaposition between the reality of the protaganists world and their fantasys are defined beautifully by their color and texture, these soft pastel characters a evoke a fairy tale fantasy the prophet takes comfort in, versus the sharp edges of the suns anger.
the sun god gives me spyro sun vibes
This comic is So textured and layered it feels like a piece of history from a world that once was which just builds onto its mythos and emotions. I would be hard pressed to pick but I really loved page 34's depiction of these golden rays shining down and how full of hope that the prophet is inspiring in the people they speak to. versus page 41 the stark contrast the lonliness the beacon that the sun is a fascination appearing as something demanding worship almost to perfect. before it imposes its firey wrath upon us. So well done, I really look forward to continuing this comic (And there is ALOT of it!) for its impressive stylistic choices alone, but its the character the hope and despair the fear that they hold not just for the sun but for the people they try to give that hope to and the way they fail and reveal to us the audience their humanity and I love that they have all these thoughts and raging emotions that the prophet grapples with it feels so personal. So I mean while I am not a religious person I definetly reccomend checking out this prohpets gospel!
by Paige!
Now onto a Silkpost! The citidel has been super cool and the game has really opened up quite alot since I got here hilariously After
I had finished exploring a big chunk of it and discovering the gourmand I went and did some backtracking and found a place to exhange my artifacts
and upgraded my needle. Better late than never I suppose! It felt good though going into the Inns basement to collect the cask and feeling that
power up when I was fighting those pesky ants down there. I've been doing quite a bit of auxhillery exploration outside of the citidel mostly
in search of the gourmands ingredients, I found three so far and in my search discovered whole new parts of areas I forgot to explore. I do
wish I held off a little longer until I received the grappling hook as their are a bunch of areas I believe have now opened up again! I must
admit I do love the slow roll of discovery, it makes the map feel considerably larger.
Why are grapplehooks always such a pain to use Emotional damage He just wants belly rubs! 
Haloween movie reccomendation for this week is Tale from the crypt 1972! I will say if you want to get hit with 50's Nuclear family suberbia aestetics this is pretty good for that as their are lots of interiors that were very visually compelling for that sense of nostalgia. As well I am a sucker for pre cg movies where everything has to be handcrafted and the tomb and caves are splendid absolutely loved the visual medium from this film. I would say to take the plot very light as it is just terrible things happening to bad people in more unsettling ways. The last story of this anthology had me howling at the absurdity of the blind old men essentially building a saw trap in the basement of their carehome. I wouldn't say they are absolutely horrific stories, well aside from the gruesome end each of their fates lead to but I found myself celebrating their demise as they made a point to be absolutely loathsome people. I think the most compelling was the 3rd story, as I genuinely felt awful for the circumstances they had created for their neighbor and the emotional turmoil is really turned up in that story.
Bro's aura farming is immaculate
Ok Go enjoy the last page of issue one! And if you already have then read it all again at once! The pacing will hit different Trust me bro Source Im the pace. Farewell for now friends! Leave your comments with us if you liked the first issue and share with us some of your favourite moments!
one must fall apart to fall back into place
Welcome! Well wishes and the hope your Weekend was one of beauty. I had a moment this weekend on a job that gave me pause to truly smile and reflect on the path i've taken, something i like many others I imagine constantly is dotted with doubt. But this moment made me realize that i've been able to heal from the past, and turn something that I love and was once bullied for into something that can inspire others. Sometimes all it takes is a stranger to say something that gives you that pause and realization that you have been building towards something without even knowing it, and because you didn't give up you could give a stranger a reason to also smile and be inspired. What truly magnificent thing it is to be a human sometimes and when we follow our dreams where that can take us.
Today there is not much in the way of announcements, and as I am quite tired from the days events (I am writing this late into Sunday night) I think I will leave the page update and see you again on Friday where I hope you will join us for the final page of the first issue of Dreams End! Its been wonderful so far and been realizing there is so much to doing this that I did not entirely antcipate at first but its been exciting to learn and try things out! Farewell and be safe friends!
Actual image of the Author yapping to the artist about another 20 seasons
As we grow closer to the end of Issue one im getting so excited for what's coming next! With only 3 pages left of this first issue, wow! How crazy how time flys by. What have you been reading? Hows The spooky season been?
We've been running through a list of Haloween movies for the month some classics and some new ones, I finally got to watching one i've heard about but didn't know anything of called Trick 'r' treat, which i suppose is a cult classic in some circles. It was really silly! I knew it would be right from the onset of the first little story, I was a bit apprehensive at first but ultimately just let go of any expectations I may have had and let myself enjoy the ride, and what a nonsensical little ride it was! Most of the movie was quite goofy and just odd. I think the standout was the teenage girls transforming into werewolves and doing whatever the heck they did in their little dance circle, and the old man bus driver thread was a fun pull through from the kids to the final story with the old man, and speaking of the old man sequence what a really spooky set they made for his house and the entire fight sequence between him and the PUmpkin head! I absolutely adore when their are handmade props in movies and his little face reveal was everything! Zan totally guessed the twist with him being the bus driver, and I kept shouting "Schrodingers chocolate bar!" Like It was Checkov himself. The back to back to back plot twists really made the movie perfect at the end and It was cool to have the kids show up for a little get together. Overall I would reccomend if you're looking to check something out thats really unserious in a mischiveous haloween way. Also! Afterwards we discovered their was a comic made AFTER the fact and it is very charming I would definetly give that a look if you're interested in that!
Awe look he's just a lil' guy!
Speaking of comics this weeks comic review is DUST by Radlad. I happened upon this one clicking through the webring and their comic intrigued me. It is unusual to find comics doing an oldschool 3 panel strip and then I saw the little dino sitting on the shoulder of the apocolypse guy (The titular RadLad) and wanted to learn Whats the story with these guys? The humor is as witty as the art is charming and each page is a quick read that left me smiling at the end of them, and curious what would happen to the duo next! There's something nostalgic about the art being hand drawn and the absurdity to the characters, fitting for a post apocolpyse. I got curious about the author and what inspired them and the backstory behind the story is really heartwarming, taking on the character of your sons toy dino and embodying them as a comic is incredible dad energy and their banter shines through in their spontanity of absurb, little wisdoms, and Noodles.! So go and check it out if you Like at the link below and enjoy a new comic story from this side of the internet!
by RadLad!
And onto other internet related topics This week alone we went from ranked 14000 all the way to 299! And its only been a week! Thats really swell, I think like the fact that 20 some odd people have voted for this comic (More or less depending on if you voted twice ;) ) Is actually incredible, and honestly kind of unexpected! Either way we really appreciate that and hope you stick around for the ride, because man is it going to be one! (Not me in the shower crying about some random plot point that just struck my mind at 2am in the morning listening to Can't stop the feeling by JT ) Yeah its a vibe, I think as a creator its like a form of therapy because real therapy cost way to much xD Alright I'll leave us with that for this Friday's Little post enjoy the comic! and if you enjoy it or didn't let us know in the comments! As always we love to hear from you, and imma try to be more proactive about responding in the future cause I know i've been bad with that! Toodles!
Real photo of Deshyn at the alter
Weooow! Greetings! We have exciting news! We are linked into the Web/Comic/Ring ! And i've been checking out some comics of the other creators and their are some really cool ones I think each week I will post a new comic from the ring I enjoyed and give some thoughts about them ^.^ Firstly up is Cooper Bullet,A stylish noir story, with a really deep personality that just oozes with flavor. The scratchy and dark tones of the art caught my eye and I stuck around for the surprisingly thoughtful nature of the story, and its reflective nature of conflict and obligations. Also Peter was a hilarious and deeply humbling character I think we have all met aspects of in our own lives Definetly worth checking out and The creator also has made some amazing little trailers for the comic that are absolute wicked mood pieces. Go check it out! ^.^
by Midgetsausage!
My silksong journey has slowed down a lil as I have had life stuff come first, and just as I was reaching the citidel! The last time I wrote about the adventure I had found myself coming through the back entrance, So i did my due diligence and went around to the front and took care of the door guard, Which personally i found getting to him to be more difficult then the judge himself, but it was a fun fight! I really liked the second phase and timing the flame attacks. Anyways haha Silly me went through the front and thought it odd that the elavator was taking us down... I open the map huh this is going away from the citidel map... Huh theres actually this huge empty area... under... oh fuck. And then we were stuck again! bahahaha got me good. Im looking forward to seeing what secrets the citidel holds... when I get there!
I Know where this ain't goin'
I've been going for really late walks lately, comes with the territory of staying up until the small hours of the morning. I find it fascinating how familiar spaces and activities can turn so incredibly strange at those hours. Seeing someone walking their dog or going for a run at 3am hits a bit different, or one time someone was cutting their lawn? Something so surreal about regular activities at that time. I admitedly must also seem strange to others, but I suppose we are all just being odd colectively!
Could be anyone out there
We also have finally hooked into top webcomics! We'll put up a little button for you folks to vote if you like later this week, but its fun to finally be able to play in the ranked servers ^.^ I find it incredibly tellling when Im looking at the votes and notice the "slight" discrepency between 2nd and 1st 500 for 5th 550 for 4th 800 for 3rd 1000 for 2nd ok ok thats nice then 1st 10000! nice o7 The furry community never misses a step. still its cool to be apart of more places ^.^ And we got to make some fun promo art to!
You can click on this to vote for Dreams End!
Well I hope everyone enjoys todays page! I think it is really silly, and had fun writing them, especially the whole flag rant Zan really enjoyed ilustrating how goofy they are. I enjoy how much physical humor his art brings to the characters, it really has elavated their banter, enjoy the week and whatever you may be reading! farewell friends!
Darius Ready for Action
Thus begins our favourite season of the year Autumn and all of its spooktacularness is upon us! The crisp air and the forlorn winds of winter, the colors! I am putting together some deco for our place Spooky bats and foraged findings. Ironically our brothers are still enjoying the summer for the time, but surely fall will find their way to them in time...
Jumpscare skelly
Writing dialogue for comics has been a much different work flow then when I wrote this initially, finding space and compressing ideas together until they look good on the page and still convey the information you like is challenging! But I believe that we are doing alright! It's actually led to many more exciting developments that im so excited to get to in the future, speaking of the future I was developing some characters for the future of this comic and it struck me that they wouldn't even show up in the story for years! I wonder how other comic creators live with that knowledge for so long in their head of a character or story that lives so far ahead of where they are, personally I just wanna yap about all these things and before the comic I used to be way more candid about it! Now that it's started though I must constantly remind myself its okay! its okay! We'll get there!
We are thinking of also releasing our comic as issues on other sites that host comics in the future, where you can read them as entire issues instead of as pages, but we'll always have the weekly page updates here! But as our current layout stands it is in quite some shambles haha!
Well lets see where these boys shenanigans lead them and what sort of trouble ensues, Darius seems quite the energetic sort doesn't he? and what the heck is a Valiant! ouuu so much intrigue :p see you on Monday!
Hey! We made it to the cover page! It's offical this is a comic! Look forward to seeing more cover's in the future I wanted to serialize these as shorter parts of a whole chapter just because I love that style in physical comics having the excitment of seeing the cover art and gets your mind wondering whats in store for the characters that week! Well Im so happy we finally can reveal our boy! Darius! Hopefully in the coming week we can get the cast page looking more functional and can add some fun little info about these guys if you're interested in that. I've been slacking on updating the webpage been feeling exhausted from real life things and just trying to push through it until I have the focus to jump back into the code aspect.
We made it to the front cover!
Something very wonderful happeneded today when I was out grocery shopping! It was just a kind gesture from the cashier I had to split the bill between cash and card today and when I went to pay the second half they just smiled and shut the register and just said ok your all set! I was astounished, I didn't want to hold up the line (It was really busy) or say it outloud what she did, but I tried to acknowledge their kindness as I was pushed out of the store. It was just a small reminder that we are all in this situation together and small gestures can go a long way to a stranger.
This page of Darius chopping the wood up on the hill was the first image I ever conjured up of how his story started, this idea survived so many different changes and modifications of the story but I was always set on the image of him up on his little hill chopping wood, seeing something fantastical on the horizon. So this image coming to life like this is really hype! Anyways thanks for reading this to the end here, since you made it this far i'll let you in on a secret Those fruit in the tree are called "mapples" They have a crisp apple exterior but a more juicy fleshy interior and have a citrius sweet taste to them. Well enjoy your week! Lets do something Kind for one another!
Fictictional fruit always taste best
This week really flew by! I can't even tell you what i've been up to, I have been unfortunately really struggling to open up the code editor and been putting it off with other tasks, working on future story beats doing the page coloring designing characters. All important stuff but none of it as prevelant as getting the website more functional! Maybe next week i'll work up to it again. Its neat seeing things slowly change but equally frustrating when you just can't quite get it right. I suppose that is the biggest challenge to this whole thing.
Hiding from the code
I am really looking forward to the upcoming pages, the start of the story is purposefully slower paced, I love the atmospheric story tellling, and seeing the things that perhaps we often overlook in our own busy lives, sometimes lives that we overlook hold the most interesting stories and can lead to wonderful opportunites. Although I think in this case that opportunity may have been overlooked. What has this guy in a rush?
I don't think I have much else to add, I finally have reached the citidel in silksong apparently I went through the backdoor, well they sure kept it well guarded. I like to think that I am a fairly patient gamer. I've played my fair share of souls likes so I get the drill of repetition. But the Mist level truly tested that for me. Its not that anything was particularly difficult, it was just the repetitive nature and tedium of searching out for the glowbugs stopping and killing each wraith avoiding the bajillion spike traps...
Tumblr you know what to do
I mean I dig the level in concept it reminds me of the lost woods in ocarina how you have to follow the music to get to the middle, and I like any utilization of the needolin as a Side note I have been playing that thing everywhere! IT has so many fun interactions! I think it's just the execution and the punishing aspect of the platforming that got me. Also that the first time I got through it, I missed the bench and had to do it all over again... But then we squashed bug butt! Im excited to see what lays ahead in the citidel and the secrets it holds. This area's music I think is my favourite so far!
Well! Enjoy todays page and our first spoken line of dialogue! yippee!
Wow! Monday already! I do hope you had a wonderful weekend! Unfortunately not many updates to the page happened over the last few days, but we DO have a functioning guestbook now! It was super easy to implement and I feel quite silly for leaving it empty for so long. But now you may leave little messages if you wish! Yay!
Me putting on my customer service skin
I've spent most of this weekend between jobs, watching this little known anime called My hero Academia, pretty neat! It's funny how I always get into shows when they're getting into their final season. I think i might read the manga though! I think that anime is cool and can really make sense of action scenes (Im looking at you araki!) but usually they can leave out alot of context to the story! I have alot of different comics, manga, digital comics, and books im reading right now, adhd prohibits me from actually finishing anything aaah But I think when I get the about section looking nice I'll add in some of our favourite media! Games, books, movies, all that interesting stuff!
Zan watching season 6
Speaking of finishing things I have been steadily making my way through silksong absolutely marvelous game! Metroidvanias is such a fasinating genre, It reminds me of designing mega dungeons in dnd, creating various paths,backdoors, temporary barriers fleshing out the ecosystem and crafting bosses to segment them apart, all while tying it into a evergrowing homebase. I don't get much time to play ttrpgs now adays but I do love the act of dungeon crafting its a tremendous process! Maybe I'll share some of those designs here one day!
Well! Thanks for reading all the way to the bottom and enjoy todays page! In which we introduce the most IMPORTANT character of all! The Marketable Plushy >:D (jk we love you Gorse) Farewell! Have a great week!
Bye!!!
Hello dear reader thanks for stopping by! We added some cute little Cats for your viewing pleasure! This week has been fairly busy with attentions divided, unfortunately I have not been able to fix the homepage as of yet for mobile users, the task has left me slightly perplexed as I led myself to believe I was getting the hang of these grids but unfortunately when applying the logic over there it did not "logic"
huffing the codepium
I wouldn't expect much of an update on Monday either as I have quite a busy weekend with wage work so we can continue our exsistence, but we will have comic pages and maybe some little art works for our cast! I'll try to keep the logs updated on any changes we make and plans for our future here.
OH Also unfortunately we will be having to crunch the quality of our pages as we have limited upload space here! COmparing the two, we don't see to much of a difference, but! We have plans to make those freely available in the future so if you are interested in seeing all those little pixels, we got you covered! Zan has alot of fun with those little pixels so it'll defintly be worth checking out!
how it feels to be compressed
Anyways! Enjoy your lovely weekend, and the new page! It was alot of fun to work on, much of the story has changed quite significantly from it's initial idea but I have always held onto the opening scene and it was really cathartic to see it truly come to life. farewell for now!
zan - Huzzah!
Hey! Welcome to the Comic! Its a bit bare bones at the moment around here as I slowly bash my face into the html trying to work out this code. despite what they may have you believe, being a linux user (boo windows) does not equal being a code wizard. fortunately there has been a wealth of information I have found surfing around Neocities. Shout out Petrapixels and Rarebit for the amazing resources (I'll link the buttons when I figure that part out!)
How it Feels to crash course code
in a week
Somehow despite everything we've made it to the release date, and Pisfits Publishing has been born officially! We're really excited to start this journey it's something I personally have been working on since 2020 , but in reality it goes back much further then that and to be here despite this website being in current shambles it fills me with alot of emotion.
Anyways! Keep an eye out for updates as this site is a huge work in progress and we have so many plans. Hopefully we'll have our socials up later this week? Month? (Im sooo good at prioritizing) as well as an change log for the site and planned updates.
ah yes... Priorities
Alright! I'll leave it at that please enjoy the story, join in the discussion on discord and give @zandr.stardog on instagram for more wonderful art. Pisfits, Signing off!