And I just noticed… She’s got a really NASTY weapon in her other hand. Blunt surface to break things on one side, sharp, very concentrated impact point for punching through sturdy armor on the other. War hammers are VERY ugly in a real fight.
If that’s Gorehash, he has. but it should limit his ability to attack at least. I was hoping Mentl would show up, but he’s more of a last-minute savior at this point. Either way, Liri just removed the only real threat. Her war-hammer is very cruel looking, I wonder if it’s also like Keltan’s uber-mace. Thor’s hammer return…
So wielding their magic does the same thing to them then. Gorshash had the same sunken eye(s) and the pale, dried out “skin.” as this clown, pity. I’m sure it will take both Tula and Mentl to take him out by now. There’s too much going on for the story line to end too easily anyway 🙂 Besides, I’m sure at one point our hero’s will have to face off against that all-mighty fire stick anyway.
With a little Darth Mal thrown in too 🙂 Critical damage? That was more like a finishing move! I kinda doubt he’d be interested in trying to cast a spell much less being able to.
yeah. gotta say you’re on the nose with that one. he goed splat!!
Scarsdale
Darth Mal did survive Obe-Wan’s “cutting wit” so to speak, so it is possible. If he isn’t too racked in pain to think of a healing spell to keep him alive.
The last sound effect reminds me of 50 do-wop
“Sh-Goosh, Sh-Goosh
Wa wa wa wa wa wa Wah!
Sh-Goosh, Sh-Goosh
You’re breakin’ my heart.
Sh-Goosh, Sh-Goosh
I’ma fallin’ apart.”
Been hard to put this into writing, because if I do that, then it makes it more real. The fact is that Steve, my only brother and also a fan and friend of the comic for many years, is dead. He died a few weeks ago, very suddenly, and for weeks I’ve been in shock. We aren’t that old, but he’d had heart problems ever since he came back from his tour in Iraq. A 26-year vet and Lt Colonel in the USAF, he was retired and out pursuing his hobby of local archaeology near his home in Colorado, and simply didn’t come home that night. My niece called me and told me that they’d become concerned and went to the site and found him there alone, dead. So last month I went out there and did his eulogy, and we put him in the ground at the local military cemetery. They rang a bell, they shot the rifles in the air. They gave my sister-in-law a flag, and the brass from the salute. And we went home and I was left with a bundle of feelings I am still trying to sort out.
The measure of a man’s life isn’t what they say about you when you’re alive. It isn’t even what they say at your funeral. It’s not really about what we say at all. It’s about how your life is different now because they aren’t there, anymore. About the holes in who you are that get revealed by their sudden absence. The human-shaped voids that they used to occupy, both trivial and vitally important, even if you don’t think about them. And I’m still discovering holes in who I am that used to be filled with someone, someone I share a childhood with. Even when we were angry or distant or royally pissed-off at each other. But now there’s no one to be pissed at, to talk to, to be the focus of a brother’s love.
And so I am having a hard time getting back to work. I can do a few pieces of art, but telling the story, putting a page together is harder than it ought to be. I am very sorry and thank you all for your patience and indulgence.
Sorry to hear, you never know when it may happen. My baby sister, 62, just suddenly passed a few months ago as well. COPD was the cause, one minute she was talking to friends, and the next, she stopped breathing. My wife is in the final stages as well, I keep worrying the same will happen to her, the doctor only gave her a year. My father, 92, has Alzheimer’s, and is in the “spoiled 6 year old” stage of it, doesn’t know my name anymore. I’m caregiver for both, it’s exhausting.
jedraft
Scarsdale,
We grieve with you. Also, don’t forget to take care of yourself. Remember the airline rule.
Warm regards,
JED
Jed, I don’t have words that will help; but I need to say that I’m – that we’re all here for you. And we will still be here when at last you are able to come back to this comic. Or if you need to share something, or even if you never come back. We’re here for you.
I know that doesn’t actually help, but I just had to say it.
J,
I’m sorry for your loss. Losing those we have a connection to is never an easy thing. Take your time, process it however you need to. There is no “right” or “correct” way except that it is “your” way. We all handle it differently. May you find peace in his memory.
Oh, so sorry to hear that, Jed, but glad for the update. I was wondering what might be the case.
Hugs. It does get easier with time, but take the time you need. Better to proces the sorrow now than push it away and ahead of you.
JED, I am so sorry to hear. Those parts of you that you speak of as empty now, though…. they aren’t. Your brother is still there, filling those spaces, he always will be. The measure of a life is in how we are forever changed, agree – and he didn’t take those changes with him. Those are yours, his gifts to you, forever. Yes, it hurts, and is awful. The awfulest thing. I hope that, as the raw edges of the open wounds heal, you find honor and solace and gratitude and beauty emerge through the grief as you carry your brother’s legacy, your memories, forward through time.
My deepest sympathies to you both.
JED, please follow your own advice and take care of yourself. Zona can wait, we all can wait.
But thanks for checking in and letting us know what is going on.
JED, you’re going to be okay. We’re willing to give you the time you need to grieve. Don’t worry about how long that is. You could recover and move on by the end of this month, or it might take you years. We, your fans, will genuinely understand.
Aneeka, the creator of the webcomic Not A Villain, lost her grandmother, her sister, I don’t know who all else, but it was all just within a few weeks of each other, and her sister was a major source of inspiration & cheerleading for her writing & drawing. It took her 3 years to get back to NAV…and her fans still waited patiently for her to recover & return.
How could we, your dear fans, do any less for you?
Your brother sounds like he was in many ways a near-perfect brother. Someone for you to fight with, both against and beside. May his cha be well-balanced, and may he rest in peace.
Thanks Jed, and I follow that comic as well, she is slowly coming back from it all, and it’s fine. Normally we readers that follow a comic that just suddenly ends with no explanation, which is their call, but those that tell the readers why and keep us in the loop are welcomed and thanked. We’ll be here, give yourself time to recover.
Deepest condolences to you and your family. I’m a retired USAF Master Sgt and salute your brother’s service. Take all the time you need. We’ll all wait as long as it takes.
Navy vet here. We give our rival services hell, but we’ve always got each other’s back – To your (our) brother, rest well, we’ve got the watch. To you, JED – I lost my older brother in 2016, unexpectedly and suddenly. Even now, after 10 years, I still speak with him, fight with him, argue with him, yell at him, love him. It keeps him here, with me, and I hope I never stop.
Take the time you need, JED. We’ll be here when you come back to us. You, Zona, Mentl, Tula, Ipola and the entire cast of miscreants are way too important to us.
And to your brother, from a fellow veteran… “Thank you for your service to all of us. You are appreciated.”
Lots a people said it! Take the time you need! My Sister passed about 6 mos ago at 77. She had a full life and while we didn’t talk often, she was always there and now there is a hole that I didn’t even realize was filled and I sure feel the emptyness! Again, “Take the time you need!”
Bugger.
I am sorry to hear of your brother’s passing. Any age to loose a brother is too young. Any age to loose anyone is too young.
We lost out dad late last year, and it still hurts. But we keep telling stories about him, and he will still be there while we do.
One of you wonderful people pointed out a couple weeks ago that we passed the twentieth anniversary of this webcomic in July and I didn’t even notice. Well, almost exactly ten years ago, I made a special strip for the tenth anniversary, page 900.
Page 900 – The Challenges Of Zona
In it I included this song that I wrote for Mentl to sing to Zona in the Otherwhen. The lyrics and meter are mine, but every time I tried to put a tune to it it sounded derivative anyway, and so I decided to feed it into Suno and see what AI could do. It’s okay, and doesn’t not sound like what I had in my head. Just so we all know, it’s obviously based on the thing being trained on the work of many other people much more talented than I am, and I would not dare to try to monetize it, but the song as a whole is mine. Sort of collaborating with machine learning.
Warm regards,
JED
You said you’d like to see the little giant’s adventure during the attack. I put this sketch together and am not displeased with the results.
Enjoy!
JED
As many could have predicted, today’s Sexy Saturday involves our two lovely priestesses of the Sun and The Moon, respectively.
To see the rest, just visit Patreon.com/JEDraft. Hop
For no reason I can find, and none that Godaddy can find, it’s impossible for me to post a new comic at barbarian princess Dot Com using my theme Toocheke without getting 503 ERROR. I have added nothing, done nothing in the past month or longer that would cause this. I think the demons from the Deeps have done something nefarious. Until I fix it or redo the entire site using another plugin (again) I will be posting the update in FaceBook.
I owe you all many apologies, and many updates, but we’re finally truly back in the saddle. I am so very grateful for your loyalty and patience, and I won’t bore you with all the details of the heart problems (now completely symptom-free) and the neck stuff and the lung infection (fine at last ) and Jeebus everything in my little old body that seemed determined to break down all at freaking once. I’m back to splitting logs and exercising and all the good, healthy stuff – and, of course, working on Zona!
So here we go! Yes, the dragon tried a flame-strafe and yes, flying top cover Tula was able to shield the frontline of the cavalry and now it appears some kind of hawk has taken a decided dislike to our urtt rider. Imagine that.
More as soon as I can get it finish rendering and doing the magic. Warmest regards,
Hi kids! There was a delay in updates, and I think you ought to know why.
Didja ever want to know what an actual heart attack feels like? Well, with any luck you never will. I, on the other hand, know exactly what it feels like. It’s not like Aunt May clutching her heart and collapsing. It was more like the worst acid reflux you can think of for about 24 hours straight. Went to the doc, and to make a long story short, anyone can have clogged arteries under the right conditions – even me!
This was about a week and a half ago, and yeah, I spent a couple of miserable nights in hospital where they kindly opened my artery and put a nifty little mesh tube in there to keep it open. Did I ever wish there was some kind of wormhole and Tula could come use Erogenian Magick to heal things quicker. Hospital sucks.
Otherwise, I am fine, and looking forward to eventually splitting logs again and doing other macho stuff around home, just like before. But, as I write this I need lots of rest and can’t lift anything heavier than ten pounds. (That means I have to put my little dog or my cat on the scale before I heft them, just to be sure. )
But I am now well on the mend, and look forward to making regular updates – or even more to make up for the lost time.
Soooo – I know the comic is a bit late, but I have not been idle. Nor has Brian. We are now really, truly and officially out of preproduction. The hernia was to transition all the assets, including out titular heroine, into Unreal Engine 5. It was a seemingly Sisyphean task, involving lots or frustration, hard hard work for my dauntless perfectionist animator and some creative innovations to solve the problems that they can absolutely take complete credit for solving.
We are now in production and animating scenes for the final trailer in UE5. Well, why did we go to UE5 in the first place? If you look at this picture, maybe you’ll understand. It’s representative of what you will be seeing on screen, and this is just one frame. UE will show you 60-120 fps of THIS in real time.
I’m extremely pleased. This is much much more than I thought I wanted. She’s going to live, breathe and act out the story in the world we’ve created.
Naturally, if you want to see more, then go to Patreon.com/ JEDraft
Our ongoing incompatibility issues with the new WordPress are still not worked out, and I am afraid I might have to just redo the whole site again, but until I absolutely have to do that, I have this kludgy workaround.
See at the top menu on the right, “, I have converted the entire history of the web comic into a series of yeary PDF files that any one can download.
It’s not elegant, kind of a brute force workaround, but at least you all now can really start at the beginning and read the whole thing at your leisure.
Many thanks for your patience, and with hopes of a permanent solution in the near future.
In this, the final version we’re doing of this proof-of-concept video, Brian put in more fancy stuff and fixes and attention to wonderful details. Now we dive into production of the actual product, beginning a trailer for the series itself with all the new elements and knowledge we have put together so far.
34 thoughts on “Such Awful People – Page 1334”
Tiff Hudson
“Holy vibranium, Batman!”
SanBernInATL
Aaand let’s see him recover from THAT one….
SanBernInATL
And I just noticed… She’s got a really NASTY weapon in her other hand. Blunt surface to break things on one side, sharp, very concentrated impact point for punching through sturdy armor on the other. War hammers are VERY ugly in a real fight.
Reservist
The rank-and-file Urrts did the right thing to dive out of the shield’s trajectory. Smart.
Scarsdale
If that’s Gorehash, he has. but it should limit his ability to attack at least. I was hoping Mentl would show up, but he’s more of a last-minute savior at this point. Either way, Liri just removed the only real threat. Her war-hammer is very cruel looking, I wonder if it’s also like Keltan’s uber-mace. Thor’s hammer return…
RBZ
It’s not Gorshash. It’s “Urrt High Priest.”
Scarsdale
So wielding their magic does the same thing to them then. Gorshash had the same sunken eye(s) and the pale, dried out “skin.” as this clown, pity. I’m sure it will take both Tula and Mentl to take him out by now. There’s too much going on for the story line to end too easily anyway 🙂 Besides, I’m sure at one point our hero’s will have to face off against that all-mighty fire stick anyway.
Joe Fonebone
Is there some sort of Voting Incentive pic? If so, I can’t see it. Love Liri’s armor.
DaAmron
this is s why you spec into Avenger’s shield, for the awesome crit damage.
Scarsdale
With a little Darth Mal thrown in too 🙂 Critical damage? That was more like a finishing move! I kinda doubt he’d be interested in trying to cast a spell much less being able to.
DaAmron
yeah. gotta say you’re on the nose with that one. he goed splat!!
Scarsdale
Darth Mal did survive Obe-Wan’s “cutting wit” so to speak, so it is possible. If he isn’t too racked in pain to think of a healing spell to keep him alive.
Lora
Ooh, great throw, Liri! 😀 I like her style.
Xerxes Aragon
Yay!
Clay
That’s gonna leave a mark ….
Tiff Hudson
The last sound effect reminds me of 50 do-wop
“Sh-Goosh, Sh-Goosh
Wa wa wa wa wa wa Wah!
Sh-Goosh, Sh-Goosh
You’re breakin’ my heart.
Sh-Goosh, Sh-Goosh
I’ma fallin’ apart.”
Tiff Hudson
Ugh *50’s do-wop*
Scarsdale
That “Priest” is a juicy one, just makes it more fun! Quick Keltan, throw the mace! {SPLAT!}
Descartes
Been 7 weeks since this page. Getting worried about you, JED. Let us know you’re doing well.
jedraft
Okay.
Been hard to put this into writing, because if I do that, then it makes it more real. The fact is that Steve, my only brother and also a fan and friend of the comic for many years, is dead. He died a few weeks ago, very suddenly, and for weeks I’ve been in shock. We aren’t that old, but he’d had heart problems ever since he came back from his tour in Iraq. A 26-year vet and Lt Colonel in the USAF, he was retired and out pursuing his hobby of local archaeology near his home in Colorado, and simply didn’t come home that night. My niece called me and told me that they’d become concerned and went to the site and found him there alone, dead. So last month I went out there and did his eulogy, and we put him in the ground at the local military cemetery. They rang a bell, they shot the rifles in the air. They gave my sister-in-law a flag, and the brass from the salute. And we went home and I was left with a bundle of feelings I am still trying to sort out.
The measure of a man’s life isn’t what they say about you when you’re alive. It isn’t even what they say at your funeral. It’s not really about what we say at all. It’s about how your life is different now because they aren’t there, anymore. About the holes in who you are that get revealed by their sudden absence. The human-shaped voids that they used to occupy, both trivial and vitally important, even if you don’t think about them. And I’m still discovering holes in who I am that used to be filled with someone, someone I share a childhood with. Even when we were angry or distant or royally pissed-off at each other. But now there’s no one to be pissed at, to talk to, to be the focus of a brother’s love.
And so I am having a hard time getting back to work. I can do a few pieces of art, but telling the story, putting a page together is harder than it ought to be. I am very sorry and thank you all for your patience and indulgence.
Warm regards,
JED
Scarsdale
Sorry to hear, you never know when it may happen. My baby sister, 62, just suddenly passed a few months ago as well. COPD was the cause, one minute she was talking to friends, and the next, she stopped breathing. My wife is in the final stages as well, I keep worrying the same will happen to her, the doctor only gave her a year. My father, 92, has Alzheimer’s, and is in the “spoiled 6 year old” stage of it, doesn’t know my name anymore. I’m caregiver for both, it’s exhausting.
jedraft
Scarsdale,
We grieve with you. Also, don’t forget to take care of yourself. Remember the airline rule.
Warm regards,
JED
Adge
Jed, I don’t have words that will help; but I need to say that I’m – that we’re all here for you. And we will still be here when at last you are able to come back to this comic. Or if you need to share something, or even if you never come back. We’re here for you.
I know that doesn’t actually help, but I just had to say it.
SanBernInATL
J,
I’m sorry for your loss. Losing those we have a connection to is never an easy thing. Take your time, process it however you need to. There is no “right” or “correct” way except that it is “your” way. We all handle it differently. May you find peace in his memory.
Lurker314
Wow. I should have checked comments sooner. Give yourself time to grieve.
Lora
Oh, so sorry to hear that, Jed, but glad for the update. I was wondering what might be the case.
Hugs. It does get easier with time, but take the time you need. Better to proces the sorrow now than push it away and ahead of you.
Terx
JED, I am so sorry to hear. Those parts of you that you speak of as empty now, though…. they aren’t. Your brother is still there, filling those spaces, he always will be. The measure of a life is in how we are forever changed, agree – and he didn’t take those changes with him. Those are yours, his gifts to you, forever. Yes, it hurts, and is awful. The awfulest thing. I hope that, as the raw edges of the open wounds heal, you find honor and solace and gratitude and beauty emerge through the grief as you carry your brother’s legacy, your memories, forward through time.
Descartes
My deepest sympathies to you both.
JED, please follow your own advice and take care of yourself. Zona can wait, we all can wait.
But thanks for checking in and letting us know what is going on.
Jean
JED, you’re going to be okay. We’re willing to give you the time you need to grieve. Don’t worry about how long that is. You could recover and move on by the end of this month, or it might take you years. We, your fans, will genuinely understand.
Aneeka, the creator of the webcomic Not A Villain, lost her grandmother, her sister, I don’t know who all else, but it was all just within a few weeks of each other, and her sister was a major source of inspiration & cheerleading for her writing & drawing. It took her 3 years to get back to NAV…and her fans still waited patiently for her to recover & return.
How could we, your dear fans, do any less for you?
Your brother sounds like he was in many ways a near-perfect brother. Someone for you to fight with, both against and beside. May his cha be well-balanced, and may he rest in peace.
Scarsdale
Thanks Jed, and I follow that comic as well, she is slowly coming back from it all, and it’s fine. Normally we readers that follow a comic that just suddenly ends with no explanation, which is their call, but those that tell the readers why and keep us in the loop are welcomed and thanked. We’ll be here, give yourself time to recover.
Ed Brault
Deepest condolences to you and your family. I’m a retired USAF Master Sgt and salute your brother’s service. Take all the time you need. We’ll all wait as long as it takes.
Thorny
Navy vet here. We give our rival services hell, but we’ve always got each other’s back – To your (our) brother, rest well, we’ve got the watch. To you, JED – I lost my older brother in 2016, unexpectedly and suddenly. Even now, after 10 years, I still speak with him, fight with him, argue with him, yell at him, love him. It keeps him here, with me, and I hope I never stop.
Take the time you need, JED. We’ll be here when you come back to us. You, Zona, Mentl, Tula, Ipola and the entire cast of miscreants are way too important to us.
And to your brother, from a fellow veteran… “Thank you for your service to all of us. You are appreciated.”
huehueteot
Lots a people said it! Take the time you need! My Sister passed about 6 mos ago at 77. She had a full life and while we didn’t talk often, she was always there and now there is a hole that I didn’t even realize was filled and I sure feel the emptyness! Again, “Take the time you need!”
Speedy
Bugger.
I am sorry to hear of your brother’s passing. Any age to loose a brother is too young. Any age to loose anyone is too young.
We lost out dad late last year, and it still hurts. But we keep telling stories about him, and he will still be there while we do.
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Things appear to be fixed.
Still not sure what actually went wrong. Looking forward to the report that WordPress Support will give me.
Patreon Update – Sexy Saturday
As many could have predicted, today’s Sexy Saturday involves our two lovely priestesses of the Sun and The Moon, respectively. To see the rest, just visit Patreon.com/JEDraft. Hop
Here We Go Again
Here we go again!
For no reason I can find, and none that Godaddy can find, it’s impossible for me to post a new comic at barbarian princess Dot Com using my theme Toocheke without getting 503 ERROR. I have added nothing, done nothing in the past month or longer that would cause this. I think the demons from the Deeps have done something nefarious. Until I fix it or redo the entire site using another plugin (again) I will be posting the update in FaceBook.
Warm regards,
JED
Finally!
Wow, it’s been a long time.
I owe you all many apologies, and many updates, but we’re finally truly back in the saddle. I am so very grateful for your loyalty and patience, and I won’t bore you with all the details of the heart problems (now completely symptom-free) and the neck stuff and the lung infection (fine at last ) and Jeebus everything in my little old body that seemed determined to break down all at freaking once. I’m back to splitting logs and exercising and all the good, healthy stuff – and, of course, working on Zona!
So here we go! Yes, the dragon tried a flame-strafe and yes, flying top cover Tula was able to shield the frontline of the cavalry and now it appears some kind of hawk has taken a decided dislike to our urtt rider. Imagine that.
More as soon as I can get it finish rendering and doing the magic.
Warmest regards,
JED
A Minor Inconvenience …
Hi kids! There was a delay in updates, and I think you ought to know why.
Didja ever want to know what an actual heart attack feels like? Well, with any luck you never will. I, on the other hand, know exactly what it feels like. It’s not like Aunt May clutching her heart and collapsing. It was more like the worst acid reflux you can think of for about 24 hours straight. Went to the doc, and to make a long story short, anyone can have clogged arteries under the right conditions – even me!
This was about a week and a half ago, and yeah, I spent a couple of miserable nights in hospital where they kindly opened my artery and put a nifty little mesh tube in there to keep it open. Did I ever wish there was some kind of wormhole and Tula could come use Erogenian Magick to heal things quicker. Hospital sucks.
Otherwise, I am fine, and looking forward to eventually splitting logs again and doing other macho stuff around home, just like before. But, as I write this I need lots of rest and can’t lift anything heavier than ten pounds. (That means I have to put my little dog or my cat on the scale before I heft them, just to be sure. )
But I am now well on the mend, and look forward to making regular updates – or even more to make up for the lost time.
Warmest regards,
JED
Zona in Unreal Engine 5
Soooo – I know the comic is a bit late, but I have not been idle. Nor has Brian. We are now really, truly and officially out of preproduction. The hernia was to transition all the assets, including out titular heroine, into Unreal Engine 5. It was a seemingly Sisyphean task, involving lots or frustration, hard hard work for my dauntless perfectionist animator and some creative innovations to solve the problems that they can absolutely take complete credit for solving.
We are now in production and animating scenes for the final trailer in UE5. Well, why did we go to UE5 in the first place? If you look at this picture, maybe you’ll understand. It’s representative of what you will be seeing on screen, and this is just one frame. UE will show you 60-120 fps of THIS in real time.
I’m extremely pleased. This is much much more than I thought I wanted. She’s going to live, breathe and act out the story in the world we’ve created.
Naturally, if you want to see more, then go to Patreon.com/ JEDraft
Warmest regards,
JED
NEW PDF ARCHIVE
Our ongoing incompatibility issues with the new WordPress are still not worked out, and I am afraid I might have to just redo the whole site again, but until I absolutely have to do that, I have this kludgy workaround.
VDSD – 2021 (barbarianprincess.com)
See at the top menu on the right, “, I have converted the entire history of the web comic into a series of yeary PDF files that any one can download.
It’s not elegant, kind of a brute force workaround, but at least you all now can really start at the beginning and read the whole thing at your leisure.
Many thanks for your patience, and with hopes of a permanent solution in the near future.
Warmest regards,
JED
Zona Animation: Morning Exercises V2
In this, the final version we’re doing of this proof-of-concept video, Brian put in more fancy stuff and fixes and attention to wonderful details. Now we dive into production of the actual product, beginning a trailer for the series itself with all the new elements and knowledge we have put together so far.
Rubbing my hands with glee.
Warm regards,
-JED
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