I Already Used Keep In Gates, Dammit

Drew this as a request from a namefag at 4chan's /v/.

The request was made months ago, and came up offhand in conversation. I jumped on the suggestion, since it was extremely bizarre. Being that I was going through one of my "I can't draw for shit, woe is me," mindsets at the time, I wasn't feeling confident enough to ink it and just gave him a quick red-line sketch. Yesterday, I see that the picture was still getting reposted, so I elected to finish it. Incidentally, the person who originally requested it was in the same thread, so here we are.

Alright, so I've been stalling on the comic. Intentionally, actually. I have absolutely no idea what to do for the next few pages. I know what to do, but not how to pace it or present it in a visually interesting way. So I've been kinda holding out. I only have two panels left to do in the page I'm working on, though, so when I finally get around to doing it, it will be fine. It's what comes after it that worries me.

Dogs on the Run (Page 16) (AND 17)

I intentionally plotted this whole series out to take advantage of the fact that I can experiment with different styles. The "margin sketches" style is actually much easier to do than the previous, "clean and simple" style that I've used up until now.

UPDATE: Holy hell, I just got done another page. Two in one day without even trying? I think I'm in love!

Kinda went all Hellsing on this, not that I meant to. Funny how that works out. I'm glad I made the character designs for this chapter as diverse as I did: I don't really even have to worry about keeping them on model right now, since you can't really confuse Ace with Joe or anything.

Suck a Sage (Pages 9-15)

Jesus, I have just been abysmally lazy about this lately. Turns out I won't be getting a tablet PC for a while (I ordered the wrong thing), so inking six pages back-to-back on the tablet I had now turned out to be such a huge pain that I just didn't want to deal with it.

Hm, probably should have touched this up on my desktop. I don't remember the last time I got this into an action scene.
Pure fanservice. I figure you can't tease something for several pages and not pay off. The dialogue irks me a bit.
I should have redrawn this page, but this was the last one I inked, and I was way past the point of caring by then. This is actually the first time I've ever drawn anyone kissing, which I probably didn't have to point out.
I like to make a script so that I have something to ignore. Ace's old design got way out of hand, so I had to streamline it. Inking his bangs is a phenomenal pain, but they turned out looking pretty good.
The bottom panel looks absolutely nothing like the pencils. I had to completely redraw it, and it took hours since I was doing so straight from the tablet. It's hard for me to do anything complex on that thing.
This entire page had to be redrawn, but since I rushed it, I don't like how the bottom panel turned out. There's no real composition or sense of motion to it. Lesson learned.

I'll be working harder on this in the coming days, mostly because the plot gives me an excuse to go for a more dynamic presentation. Also, though I know I sound bored writing this right now, I've been getting a little more pumped up about drawing lately. It tends to go in cycles for me.