Fruit Incest

So I’m starting another part of this Folklorist/Four Overlords/Mob Maid story arc thingy, which aside from the Santa Sarah storyline, which pretty much ended three times by now, is the only continuous story arc in the FIniverse. The fun thing about this story arc is that I’m forced to upload them in order, so by the time I finally get around to doing one, I have the next three or so parts vaguely planned out in my head, so I can try out some slightly less lame plotlines and writing.

Still, I really should do these more often, since I keep putting story arc comics on hold whenever I get too lazy. I know nobody reads these, but if anyone stumbles upon this and feels like motivating me, then show your appreciation by giving me your crazy theories that probably have nothing to do with my story cause I’m not talented enough to make a story where you can predict what’s gonna happen next.

Who are the Four Overlords? Why does the Folklorist want to go after them? What’s with the Mob Maid stuff? How dare I kill the Companion Cube in the beginning of the story? Gimme your best shot and love your lolis while you’re at it!

With all the spare holidays out of the while it’s getting to be that time where fake commercial Christmas is replaced with genuine Christmas spirit, and I obviously have special plans for everyone. Our good friend Sarah is getting a bit of a break this year (or is she?*) and instead we’re gonna look at the many historical Santas of the past.

Of course, I absolutely knew my scanner wouldn’t like the format I chose for this month’s comics, so I have no idea if I’ll just have to bear with the crap quality or switch to slightly less crappy digital comics (which are more difficult now because I now have less tables to work on and my new bedsheets make my laptop overheat, making it difficult to find a decent workspace**) but we’ll see how it works out.

Everyone have a fun December cause I’ll be doing my best to do it right this year once more. Also, as a special treat I’m thinking of doing another random free-for-all sketch request bonanza like I did in October, so if you want me to draw anything (as long as it’s not stupid***) feel free to ask!

Everyone have a Happy Pants and enjoy the festive season, cause we’re going into loli-loving overdrive.

*Yes she is.
**I drew the last comic surrounded by bread crumbs…
***Oh who am I kidding, the stupider the better!

So, some of you might know that last year I celebrated the Fruit Incest anniversary with a month long Halloween special. There’s no way I can do that on a yearly basis, so this year I’ll stick to one anniversary comic. Still, I kind of set the standard pretty high for a badly drawn webcomic that can’t even get more than 40 individual views a day, so this year I’ll do something special for you dedicated fans who know when to check the Cocktail section. I’m not good enough for commissions, but I can still take requests, so this year I’ll draw anything requested in the comments for this post for the rest of the month, so go ahead! Give me more work! I’ll draw anything you’d like!

So that’s that. I’m sorry I couldn’t do anything more professional this year, but this isn’t so bad, right? Right? Well let’s all have a fun October and love our lolis.

It’s been a year since I last drew a Pokemon special, so to celebrate, I’m doing not one, but TWO special things! First up is the comic you probably noticed by now. This time I’ll be using the actual Pokemon canon, but who knows, we might see our old FIth gen friends in the future. For now, enjoy the antics of what has become my favourite gym leader.

Second, and you guys better appreciate this. I’ve made up some Pokemon concentrate. Yep, you get a complete list of all the FIth gen Pokemon. Okay, maybe not complete. I didn’t include legendaries. That’s for the future. Plus, I’m free to add some if I ever want to for some bizarre reason. Unfortunately, I’m not going to add about 40 pieces of concentrate to my server at once. Especially since no one ever checks the Concentrate section. So this time I’m using a deviantART account I made just for this occassion. At the moment I have no more plans for that thing, but any deviants out there who wouldn’t mind seeing some non Fruit Incest related works just let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

I spent several hours total working on this over the past few months, and as I’m working on these current comics I also have a lot of other work to do, so you guys better appreciate. I’m trying desperately to get FI more well known, so if you haven’t told your friends yet, why haven’t you whore’d me out to them? Nag your friends, for it is the only way they will enjoy my muffiny goodness. I need you, and together we can bring success to the Fruit Incest lineage. Wont someone think of the lolis, and love them also.

Alright, this printer/scanner thing is just getting more and more frequent and I’m really beginning to hate it now. I keep trying to figure it out and work around it, but whenever I try to outsmart my scanner it surprises me with another cropped up image. Despite this though, every once in a while I look at a comic and think “Oh there’s no way it’s going to accept this without ruining the quality,” and it happens without fail every time. Just what’s going on that I can only predict when things go wrong?

Today I drew a comic and noticed the sketch was gorgeous. I then began to think about how I’ve gotten better at sketching, but my inking still isn’t perfect. I think my scanner problem has something to do with how I ink. Sometimes when I trace over my sketches I get nice crisp lines. Other times I get grainy and thick lines that cover up the whole sketch lines. When my scanner detects this, I don’t know why, but it takes these bad quality lines and makes them worse. Should I start using professional inking pens instead of just making thicker darker lines with my pencil? Should I just upload sketches? Maybe if I sketched on paper and inked on my computer things would be easier, but I’m at a loss.

Basically, this post is me apologizing for the quality of comics lately. Most of you probably don’t even notice or care, which I can’t tell if that’s a good thing or not, but every time this happens I know that I have a much better quality comic right in front of me and I can’t share it with the fans who kept me going this long, and that’s just not good enough. I guess I’m just sick of venting in the comic blogs so frequently and needed an official Cocktail post once and for all, but this is just ridiculous. Remember to love your lolis everyone, cause they sure need it.