My Comic For @aabadendingzine Which Is Out For Free Over Here.

The first page of a 4-page digital comic about the events of Turnabout Trump gone very wrong. The color palette uses a mix of desaturated colors with saturated colors used for emphasis.

The top panels show close-ups of Apollo’s hands behind his back with great emphasis on his bracelet, Olga Orly crying as she’s being taken away with Apollo and Kristoph watching in the background, and Phoenix’s face with a blank expression.

The next panel has Apollo looking at Kristoph, who has his arms crossed and is stone-faced, apprehensively. Olga’s hands and Phoenix are in the foreground.

The following panels show a close-up of a clock, Kristoph glancing to his right, Phoenix turning his head back, Kristoph’s raising his scarred hand to his mouth, a close-up of Phoenix narrowing his eyes at Apollo, and Apollo looking back scared, a reflection of Phoenix in his eyes.

Kristoph coughs to get Apollo’s attention, who looks at him with wide eyes. Kristoph turns to him with a disarming smile, the background of his panel is reminiscent of a halo. He says, “Ahem. I’ll see you on Tuesday then, Justice?” Apollo gives him an uneasy smile, plants with holes in them are shown in the background. Apollo says, “Oh- erm! Y-yes sir...! I-I’ll- see you…”

The next panel shows an extreme close-up of Kristoph’s blue eyes narrowing, a shadow casting over him. The next panel shows Phoenix who is turned away from them, looking on.

The second page of the comic. Apollo narrates throughout the page, “The backs were red.” The first panel is a whole illustration segmented into three panels.

The first box has Phoenix sitting at his swivel chair like the one in the Hydeout, cards in his hand as he leans forward, resting his arm on the table. The background has the forged painting Drew Misham made, there are cracks on the walls. The second has Apollo dressed like a waiter in the Borscht Bowl Club and posed like a figure of Themis. He is glancing at Kristoph on his left, his background is the courtroom. The third has Kristoph leaning down, smiling smugly as he looks at Phoenix, his glasses hide his eyes. A bloody grape juice bottle sits on the table, he has his hand on the arm of swivel chair where Shadi Smith dies.

The narration continues, “Mr. Gavin assumed they were blue.” The panel shows Apollo in Gavin Law Offices, absent-mindedly biting the tip of his pen as he reads a paper. In the foreground is Kristoph’s hand, putting two black pens on Apollo desk.

Apollo narrates, “Mr. Gavin thought they were blue.” The next panels show Trucy whispering in Apollo’s ear, Apollo visiting Phoenix in the Borscht Bowl Club, Apollo tensely writing at his desk as Kristoph watched over him, there are many clocks on the wall, Apollo shopping for groceries, and Apollo hanging out with Clay. Kristoph is present in all of them.

“Mr. Gavin said they were blue.” Apollo finishes. The next panel shows a newspaper clipping showing Zak Gramarye, a paused video of a 17-year-old Klavier Gavin during Zak’s trial, and Apollo hunched over, tiredly typing away on his laptop as Mikeko watches him.

He starts distractedly biting his pen again which is now looking rather chewed up, it pops, getting ink in his mouth. The next panel shows the two black pens Kristoph planted on his desk earlier. The color palette changes as he starts to reach for one of them.

The third page of the comic. The first panel has Mikeko standing on the kitchen counter meowing loudly. Apollo looks at him amused, he says, “Hellooo, Mik-Mik. Geez, I’ll feed you later! I gotta do some research first, ok?” The next panels show a newspaper clipping with Magnifi Gramarye on it, and Apollo writing things down.

“Ugh…” Apollo groans as bites his pen once again; he scratches his cheek. The next panels shifts the colors once again, it shows the clock behind him, which says that it is 4:00 P.M.

The next panel shows a close-up of Apollo’s finger pressing the delete key, he feels a bit shaky. The clock says that it is 4:01 P.M. On the next panel, Apollo starts coughing, he puts his palm against his throat as he drinks from his mug. The clock says that it is 4:05 P.M. The next panel starts to droop, Apollo’s shaky hand is shown, he says, “Ugh… My head’s spinning… Too much screentime maybe…” The clock says that it’s 4:09 P.M. The next panel shows a close-up of a sleeping Mikeko.

The bottom panels show a close-up of the clock striking 4:15 P.M. Apollo starts coughing violently, he is trembling and his eyes are starting to tear up. The next panel shows the coughs getting worse, he’s having a hard time breathing now.

The fourth panel of the comic. The colors are very dark compared to the other panels. The first panel is a close-up of Apollo’s eye, wide open and filled with tears. He starts choking. The second panel has him yelling, “K-KAH! HAHH- H-HELP!” He is hunched over crying; he has his hand against his throat. He starts coughing again, “I c-can’t- I-I…!” The following panels show him finally losing consciousness.

Time passes, it is now night. Apollo is dead on his desk, eyes still open. Mikeko is tapping his arm, meowing at him, waiting for a response, he can’t give one.

my comic for @aabadendingzine which is out for free over here.

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An image of the artist's selfsona (person with horns, short hair, and black clothes) redrawn as that one image where a figure is sitting with their knees close to each other, hands placed on their lap, and is looking at viewer mischeviously.

helloooo how's it going? i really hope you enjoyed the comic <3 it's rare for me to draw such wholesome things, i know [bats eyelashes]

A very messy sketch of the fourth page of the comic.

DFGHDJKF ok i know, it's evil, the entire zine is evil you should go read it!!!!!!! but also, i remember coming up with this prompt and the image of mikeko trying to wake a dead apollo up evoked such a visceral reaction in me that i audibly went "NOOOOOO" when i thought it up LOL

the fourth page is the first page i ever thumbnailed bc i knew EXACTLY how i wanted this thing to end!

A crop of the panels in the 2nd page. The panels show Trucy whispering in Apollo’s ear, Apollo visiting Phoenix in the Borscht Bowl Club, Apollo tensely writing at his desk as Kristoph watched over him, there are many clocks on the wall, Apollo shopping for groceries, and Apollo hanging out with Clay. Kristoph is present in all of them.

i think my favorite page of this comic is the 2nd page (the 4th page being my second favorite bc what can i say, i'm evil wheezes) i just really enjoyed drawing the montage of apollo going about his life and kristoph just. being there. always watching him.

i keep thinking about how spark brushel mentioned feeling like he was being watched those past 7 years. i imagined apollo would get a taste of that once he starts trying to find out the truth behind what happened in his first case.

A crop of the panels from the 2nd page.

The first box has Phoenix sitting at his swivel chair like the one in the Hydeout, cards in his hand as he leans forward, resting his arm on the table. The background has the forged painting Drew Misham made, there are cracks on the walls. The second has Apollo dressed like a waiter in the Borscht Bowl Club and posed like a figure of Themis. He is glancing at Kristoph on his left, his background is the courtroom. The third has Kristoph leaning down, smiling smugly as he looks at Phoenix, his glasses hide his eyes. A bloody grape juice bottle sits on the table, he has his hand on the arm of swivel chair where Shadi Smith dies.

and as for my favorite panel, I REALLY LIKE THIS ONE!! it's just fun shoving every important element alluding to the case 7 years ago to the moment when zak died!

and it's not very obvious but an element i really like about this one is zak still on the chair he died on. it's just his torso visible and i would've loved to make it more obvious that he's there but oh well.

i can't think of anything else to add about drawing this so i'll end it by saying: PLEASE GO READ THE ZINE, IT'S SO SOS SOSOSOS FULL OF LOVE FOR HURT AND TRAGEDY AND THE WAY MY FELLOW ZINEMATES EXPLORED THAT IS SUCH!!! GOOD AND HEARTWRENCHING STUFF!!!!!!!!!

i had to take a break from reading the zine when i went out to finish it bc my chest started to physically hurt bc ohhhhh lordy, it just hurt. it just hurt a lot! (please do read the trigger warnings before reading the thing bc this zine deals with a lot of heavy stuff!)

i like to joke about how i'm evil and enjoy evil things such as angst no comfort which. well, it's kind of true LMAO so i'm thrilled that i was able to be a part of this zine and cook up something completely terrible <3

here's the link for it again, go read it!

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