[ETA: Hooray! The completed, fully-shaded page is up now! Thanks for your patience. If you have any trouble with getting the new page to load, try clearing your browser cache…if that still doesn’t work, let me know, although it sometimes takes Google PageSpeed a while to clear old versions of pages out of its system.

PS: If you want to check out the difference between the shaded and unshaded page, you can still view the line art here.]

The astute will notice that today’s page is inks only with no shading. Sorry about that! Recent music work craziness has put me a bit behind schedule, but don’t worry, I know the shading is where the Magic is. I should be able to post the fully-shaded version of the comic later on today, and will share out that update as soon it rolls. So do check back in the evening! And in the meantime, enjoy this little unannounced glimpse of the making-of process. ^^

BTW — Somebody, I forget who, upon beholding Apranadevi for the first time, asked, “What is the ancient Sanskrit for ‘I cannot be having this shit?'” [ETA: It was Kimberly Doscher. Hi Kimberly! 🙂 ]

Answer: I have no idea, but we have in fact reached that part of the scene. Good call.