These are the Daves I know, I know . .

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atrius — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:38:15 GMT

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atrius — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:43:38 GMT

Page 40 of Jamie the Trickster is up!

Whoops. . .

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atrius — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:25:32 GMT

Page 39 of Jamie the Trickster is up!

This page may contain any or all of the following:
-Nudity
-Being soaking wet
-Bizarre sandals
-An undercover DK barrel

enjoy!

Torchwood 3: the re-imagining!

atrius — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:13:20 GMT

. . Just some random TW fandom rambling. For those not fans, nothing to see here! For those who, for some reason may be interested in my nerdy ramblin's and who have already seen TW season 3, read on.

I just thought of a plot twist that might have been far more interesting if it had been implemented in Children of the Earth that would have allowed Ianto to surivive, but create a potentially more crushing moral and personal dilemma between him and Jack, which would provide drama, but not by way of a death, which has been overdone and is frankly too easy and typical a plot device.

If there's one thing I wanted to see more of in CoE, it was more attention to and development of Jack and Ianto's relationship. I really think that before they set their ill-fated plan to confront the 456 into action, there should have been a Jack/Ianto scene wherein essentially Ianto tells him "I know what you did in the past, but we're going to fix that now and I'm going to stand beside you no matter what."
This would help explain why Jack took him into the Thames building with him--into mortal danger, in the first place---if Ianto had just been made to wait outside, out of danger, he wouldn't have stood for that, especially since he started out in Torchwood as the coffee boy/butler of the Torchwood hub, staying behind to mind the house while everyone else went out on alien-catching adventures.

Fast forward to the aliens. In the series as it stands, there's interaction between Jack and the aliens that kind of goes unremarked upon due to being overshadowed by Ianto's death. The aliens basically tell Jack that he "yielded to us before," and Jack answers that he won't anymore, followed by the heroic speech, yadda yadda. . . and the aliens release the fatal virus.
Now what I thought was interesting here was that once Jack realizes that Ianto will die, he immediately backslides on what he said before, saying "I take it all back!!" and begs the aliens for an antidote to the virus--begs them not to let Ianto die, basically letting them know they've won--that he'll do anything if they'll just save Ianto. If there was mud on the floor of that room, he'd be crawling on his belly through it for those aliens.
A complete reversal of the heroic determined figure he was walking in there.

Now I think what would have been an interesting twist is if the aliens actually did release the cure for the virus, saving everyone in the building. Whether the people live or die in there, the aliens still get what they want and it would have been a deliciously evil bit of psychological torture on their part to show Jack that he's powerless--that he very much can and did and always will yield to them, as well as allowing his lover to live and have to deal with seeing him do that.

Picture Ianto in this instance: he was prepared to die for Torchwood, for Jack, for what he believed in, but then saw Jack throw all that they stood for in the muck, surrendering completely to the aliens. This was Ianto's Captain, someone he loved and looked up to. What would that do to him? How would that change their relationship?

Best (or should I say worst) of all, Ianto would be alive to witness the horrible act of sacrifice Jack has to commit in order to destroy the aliens. What I imagine is that Ianto wouldn't be able to bear looking at him when that last scene happens--he'd leave the room, ending up breaking the promise he had made to Jack to always stand by him.

I think this could provide a lot more interesting drama in the aftermath, changing two lovers' perceptions of each other as well as themselves as people. It may or may not end their relationship, but it would certainly shake it. I think if the writers had gone that route it would have made for much more interesting drama (as well as the preservation of a beloved character.) >:(
Basically, I'm not saying the occasional tragic death is a bad thing, but I do think death in general, especially in film, tv, storytelling--you name it, is over-glorified. What's more interesting to me is the telling of how life continues after death is experienced; how the people involved pick themselves up and move on and how they change because of it.

So, thoughts? Am I a genius? A hack? A cruel, sick individual? Or just some random, un-noteable fangirl rambling about a sci-fi show when she should have spent the day working on her comic? :P

Page 38!

atrius — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:10:20 GMT

We're finally back on track! Sorry about the wait, folks! We now continue with a flashback. :D

Ugh, I hate to do this to ya

atrius — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:21:09 GMT

Bad News, part 33

It's gonna be a wait, folks, but it's not forever.

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atrius — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:08:15 GMT

Page 37 of Jamie the Trickster is up.

Panel 3: why so serious, boys? :P

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atrius — Fri, 06 May 2011 07:08:20 GMT

Jamie the Trickster, page 36!

In which.. more dialogue ensues! And the conversation takes a bit of a downturn. .

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atrius — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:06:55 GMT

Page 35 of Jamie the Trickster!

Guess what, I have a new thing that I hate to draw: BOTTLES. >:(

Random Cute

atrius — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:53:21 GMT

I just learned that a baby eagle is called an "eaglet."
That is probably the cutest name for a baby animal I've ever heard. ^_^

atrius — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:45:26 GMT

Some bad news.

Check the blog post under the comic--I'm going back to once a week. *sigh* I wish I could have kept it up.

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atrius — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:08:46 GMT

Jamie the Trickster, Page 34

I didn't think I would get this in on time, but I got it done with time to spare! :D

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atrius — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:14:01 GMT

Jamie the Trickster, Page 33

This page took about 14 hours to shade. . not including the time it took to lay out the flat colors. X_X

On another note, why is it impossible to replicate the soft inviting look of mens' leg hair in comic format? Beh.

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atrius — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:05:00 GMT

Jamie the Trickster, Page 32

Still NSFW. . but at least somebody's having fun. :D

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atrius — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:02:20 GMT

Page 31 of Jamie the Trickster is up!

Kinda NSFW. Avert your eyes, children!

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atrius — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:08:37 GMT

Page 30 of Jamie the Trickster is up.

. .*clutches pearls*

At last, page 29!

atrius — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:10:14 GMT

Page 29 of Jamie the Trickster is up.

Ahh, scenery: takes so little time to draw, so MUCH time to shade.

Unfortunate News

atrius — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:06:52 GMT

Sorry to say, there won't be any comic updates this week because I'm too busy getting things ready for WonderCon. I'm going to be showing off my portfolio to people who hopefully don't think it sucks. Anyway, comic updates will resume next week, so basically the pages for this Tuesday and Friday will appear next Tuesday and Friday respectively.