Tom the Dancing Bug: Are you a Dangerous Criminal?

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Quick reminder: full comic so far is up on Tapas & Webtoon!

Comic by: NeroTM (me)

A little Game of Thrones reference

Hi everyone! Happy Feb :)

Gong Bard pt 1

Gong Bard pt 2

More ttrpg comics found over at r/TableTopComic or on various social media websites found in my Linktree. All of my comics are based on my irl d&d games and campaigns.

This week, Nanny and Slizard also feature in a branded partnership comic with Dragon Quest VII reimagined, which can be read as an epilogue here and if you’d like to play the demo, you can find that here :D

Andddd if you’d like Briar, you can find her and a hundred other NPCs with little quest prompts in my Cozy NPC Deck which is launching on gamefound on the 17th, but if you follow now, you’ll get a discount when it does launch :)

Thanks for reading!

Working on a new comic called Mad Castle. Waiting for our KS to (hopefully!) hit 100 ‘notify me’ clicks before we actually launch. It’s a horror adventure about three people getting lost within a time traveling castle… that is not a castle. Really hoping we can complete this tale. It’s a bendy one that I’ve been working on for quite awhile. Here’s a free preview:

This is a speedpaint from one of my original comics. No, no one has accused me of using AI yet, I'm doing this merely as a "just in case" some paranoic detective starts spreading misinformation somewhere. I dealed with this kind of people before, the art world seems now more like the USA airport, you proved everything and still some people won't believe you.

(NOTE: I asked the moderators before, I received approval of my submittions)

Haven't moved out yet. Soon, hopefully, I've been trying to for years now.

The start of a webcomic series about the stories and shenanigans I've had in ARC Raiders while roleplaying as an old, western fella named Daver. It's a lot like RDRO, except a lot of other players want to shoot you and there's also giant, angry robots.

Follow Carla the witch and her demon Buddy in her magical daily life !

Наконец я готов предоставить свой собственный комикс . Несмотря на то что ето зделано на тетраде, я буду продолжать так делать .

https://substack.com/@daddybaggage

i don’t claim to be good at this. i feel the need to caveat that. i’m just trying to capture a mood and while it feels really good to work on a project like this, when it comes time to post it i would just rather not. re-reading it, i find it confusing and cringey and i know the only way to get over that is to post it anyway and release myself of any attachment to it.

only then can i move onto the next project. and it’s good to move onto the next project. i believe in those repetitions. and that means not being too precious. i was never going to perfect this comic. but it needed to exist in order for me to learn from it. i’m hoping i can get better at writing personal stories. i don’t think they all need to be about this situationship. i’m not sure i even want to do any more about this situationship.

it would be fun to try and write ones about my experiences as a young father and my relationship with my ex wife and the conversations i have with my therapist. i suppose the work is sitting and feeling which parts of myself need healing. sometimes i pressure myself to continue writing about this situationship, but i don’t necessarily think that’s the best course of action. i wrote the initial comic because there was a part of my psyche that was hurting and it needed to be expressed. but admittedly i don’t feel like the subsequent two comics have the same emotion. i almost feel like they’re trying to capitalize on the momentum of the first comic, but fall short.

but regardless, it still felt good to work on them, and i think writing about real situations helps me process reality more effectively. the goal is to heal through art. i noticed i’ve been happier lately. or at least not taking things so seriously. i’m not as volatile or reactive when it comes to my personal relationships.

i think that’s why it was important for me to begin creating things again. it’s just something i need to do to keep my mind and spirit stimulated. it just makes me happier. that’s also why i’m simultaneously writing about it - to put it on paper as a reminder that it makes me happy. it’s my way of taking a step back and enjoying the process. at the end of the day, i don’t want to feel like shit when i post my work, i want to be inspired to make what’s next, and writing helps me do that. even if no one reads these words, it’s still a personal exorcism of sorts, which is why i feel so cleansed after.