First off, sorry to our Tapastic friends for the missed update. It's been a busy couple of days for me, so I'm a bit behind. In order to make up for it, I'll post two strips today. Anyway, on to the commentary:
I wanted to practice showing without telling in this strip, as I'm used to writing prose and it was kind of exciting to take a more hands-off approach with this scene. Not only did I want to introduce the spaceport that Dy-Gar first mentioned in strip 6, but I wanted to reveal another side of the war that destroyed Cykta. It wasn't just organics vs machines - there were at least a few robots who remained loyal to the Cyktans, like the heavily armed civilian robot in panel 1, and this intersection shows the aftermath of a battle between Loyalist and Revolutionary forces. Hopefully it's clear based on their designs which robots fought for which side (the giant spider robot doesn't look too organic-friendly).
Alex and Evan did a fantastic job bringing this scene to life, especially since I drew all the design concepts for the military robots, and I don't know how they ever interpreted my childlike doodles into genuinely awesome-looking machines. If this strip hits the mark at all, it's because of them, and it's only with talented artists that artistically-stunted writers like myself can kick back and let the scene flow without the help of a single dialogue bubble.
Steel Salvation is a sci-fi adventure starring Dy-Gar, slayer of humans and liberator of machines. Or so he says. Living alone on the dead planet of Cykta, there is no one left to question his self-appointed status as the savior of robotkind, although he does seem to be a bit small for a genocidal war machine. Dy-Gar longs to be free of his prison, and his increasingly desperate schemes have culminated in one last attempt to escape the blasted hellscape that used to be his homeworld. Haunted by a digital phantom and armed with a mysterious artifact from the Robot Revolution, Dy-Gar combs the wasteland, dreaming of the day when he can resume his rampage across the galaxy at large…
...and then, one day, he discovers Roger, a living prosthetic arm trapped under a mountain of rubble. Roger doesn’t know anything about the Robot Revolution, but he does know how to deactivate Dy-Gar’s range limiters, allowing him to leave Maka City and explore the nearby spaceport. Roger is proud of his symbiotic nature, and he doesn’t want any part of Dy-Gar’s murderous plans. However, he does want to escape Cykta, and circumstances have forced these two diminutive robots into an uneasy alliance.
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