Here’s a card I had a little fun designing, Captain John as the King of Spades. I’m not entirely happy with the design, but it’s a start. I’ll probably do some more to at least make up cards with all the characters. Might be fun at some point to do a whole deck.

Today I went on a creative frenzy and penciled and inked 3 panels. I’ll scan in and start coloring at least one panel today, so expect another bonus strip sometime this weekend. There’s definitely going to be an interesting turn coming up, so stay tuned.

Well, I’m 10 strips into the comic now and I’ve gotten to get a slight feel for the characters and the storyline. I’ve gotten some interesting feedback as well. I do think the characters need a bit more development and need to be broken of some cliche characteristics. I’ll be working on that as things go along.

Also, the 3 panel gag is tough to do well, and to keep fresh. I think some of my gags have been “cute” but not necessarily very well written (or really all that funny either.) I’ll probably be re-sizing the strip to give me 4 panels to work with, and be doing some double-sized entries to give more room to tell stories.

I’d rather have the humor come naturally through the characters, not force it by telling tired “pickle” jokes. I had already been moving toward the first real story arc anyway, and tomorrow the first strip in that story will be posted.

As always I welcome any feedback.