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April 06, 2007

Templar: I believe this is what people call "A character-defining moment."

Not that she wasn't pretty well-defined before.

I've been waiting to draw that bottom right panel for a year. Can you tell?

Oh, and while I got yer attention: Les "Jonny Crossbones" McClaine, incredible artist and all-around swell guy, turned me on to the best Photoshop plug-ins I've ever used: Multifill and Flatten. These have shaved hours off of Templar's coloring time. Hours. If you make comics and color/shade your inks in Photoshop, y'gotta give it a whirl.

But don't make the same mistake I did: Remember to set the "Multifilled Color" option in the Mutifill options box to white (the background color of your inked comic page, naturally.) For some reason, the default is set to blue. If everything works right, all of the areas to you need to color on the page should be flood-filled with random colors, and that should massively simplify the coloring process.

Good luck!

Posted by Spike at April 6, 2007 10:53 AM

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OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU.

and i think i might want some "textureized pleasure nublets." mmmm, nublets.

Posted by miss lila at April 6, 2007 10:56 AM
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WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE SPIKE! XD

Posted by chibbi at April 6, 2007 11:03 AM
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Holy God, Spike, Templar just took off to a brand new, unheard-of level of awesome. Thank you. I almost cried.

Posted by Simon at April 6, 2007 11:04 AM
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Can we get a t-shirt that says "Let th' cock of science fuck you" ? Please?

Posted by Giovanna at April 6, 2007 11:10 AM
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...Can I have your babies? No, seriously. This strip = insta win.

Seconding the idea for a tshirt. Good god woman!

Posted by Sarra at April 6, 2007 11:26 AM
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Rofled. So Hard.

Posted by John Swaine at April 6, 2007 12:01 PM
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Holy god! If he says '...okay', I will love you forever.

Posted by Liasa at April 6, 2007 12:04 PM
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The last two years have just been setting this up. From now on, nothing but harcore porn.

Posted by Thaklaar at April 6, 2007 01:04 PM
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I am in PAIN. I am in physical pain from laughing at this page. Dear lord what have you wrought!

Posted by Rich at April 6, 2007 01:21 PM
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I LOVE REAGAN SO MUCH IN THIS MOMENT.

Posted by millie at April 6, 2007 01:41 PM
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So, I totally love how Ben thinks Reagan is funny, and goes along with her BS when it's directed at someone else (May 10 2006). But it's a totally different story when the socially oblivious rampage comes charging in his direction, cock in hand.

And he's never going to get away! She lives in his same building! Hahahahahaha!

Posted by Bex at April 6, 2007 01:59 PM
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This was SOOO worth the few days' wait. Interesting that Ben outlasted Scip and waited around to meet Ray's buddy Vlad the Impaler there. Of course, it could just be a deer-in-the-headlights reaction.

This whole storyline can only end in tears. Of hysterical laughter.

Posted by stacey at April 6, 2007 02:01 PM
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If Ben actually takes that ramrod, I will laugh so hard. I will buy that Reagan t-shirt and wear it everywhere. I will grab spray cans and write "Spike Is A Webcomic God" on random walls.

Posted by Chris at April 6, 2007 02:35 PM
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Christ i laughed my ass off there

and the second panel is what does it for me, she's just presenting it like she's selling him a shoe, although the "Th' cock of SCIENCE" bit is a very close second.

On a side note, would you really want to clean your dildo alongside your dishes?

Posted by Neil at April 6, 2007 02:50 PM
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Texturized Pleasure Nublets. Pure poetry.

I've come to find that, in the majority, half the webcomics out there are about outrageous sexual activity for the sake of making the reader's gall bladder explode in hilarity. The other half are about as serious as a triple-heart bypass. Templar has the amazing ability to be both within twenty pages of one another.

Posted by Alan Tyson at April 6, 2007 03:00 PM
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This comic is ridiculously un-worksafe.

... didn't stop me from viewing it at work, though. :D

Posted by Wark at April 6, 2007 03:33 PM
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Interesting. It seems I'm laughing too hard to bother breathing. Huh.

Posted by CJ at April 6, 2007 03:58 PM
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I'm glad somebody else suggested putting it on a shirt.

I want to SEE it on a shirt, but I don't think I'd wear it. Maybe to a science party.

Posted by Wombat at April 6, 2007 04:58 PM
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We've got two other t-shirt designs in the pipe right now, but one of 'em IS science related. You'll see!

Posted by spike at April 6, 2007 05:15 PM
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You know what that last bit reminds me of? Transmet.

Are you a Transmetropolitan fan? *grins* It just sounds like something Spider would say. Or one of his filthy assistants.

Posted by Kat at April 6, 2007 05:20 PM
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GODDAMMIT, that's the kind of funny you need a defibrillator for after the fact.


...and I thought I was in love with this webcomic before the cock of science...Jesus on a pogostick.

Posted by Grimmalkin at April 6, 2007 07:42 PM
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Th..there are no words.

I guess the next question is who's going to be boning whom with the Cock of Science?

Posted by Anomie at April 6, 2007 08:13 PM
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A dildo named after Vlad the Impaler... sweet mercy, my brain.

Also, Reagan and Scip in the first panel. Wide-eyed delight vs. I DO NOT KNOW YOU.

<3

Posted by momerath at April 7, 2007 12:02 AM
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Wow. I've now sprayed beer amongst my computer peripherals. Spike, that's the best use of humor in Templar I can remember. Thanks for the laugh!

Posted by Gadz at April 7, 2007 01:04 AM
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Hee hee hee! This comic, posted along with Photoshop PLUG-INS? How Freudian!

Posted by stacey at April 7, 2007 09:41 AM
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This is the best I could find for Vlad the Impaler:
http://store.erosboutique.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=erosbout&Product_Code=Vlad&Category_Code=Bondage_Gear

Posted by aaron at April 7, 2007 10:28 AM
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I can't breathe... I can't breathe... Oh! There goes my pancreas...

Seriously, you have my eternal devotion for this.

Oh, man. I crying a little.

Posted by Moodring54 at April 7, 2007 12:36 PM
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If more people were as open and honest as Ray, I think the world would be a happier, funnier, sexier place.

Ray is one of the best female characters ever. Ray is the sort of woman I idolized as a little girl! Scip is going to have a conniption. He should really see a doctor about that.

Posted by Khonsu at April 7, 2007 05:50 PM
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That final panel made my day. <3

Posted by Minka at April 8, 2007 05:06 PM
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Okay, so far Templar has been one of my "good enough to follow" comics, but you just became one of my very favorites. I just laughed out loud (literally, as opposed to the debased meaning of LOL) for about 30 seconds, which is extremely rare for me to do outside of a social setting.

Good work! :)

Posted by Daniel Ross at April 8, 2007 09:04 PM
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wow! okay, not a comment on your comic, but those filters are mega handy! saving my frakkin' life! thanks a ton!

patric

Posted by marvelous patric at April 12, 2007 11:22 AM
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