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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "THE TROUBLE WITH EMERALD," part 3!
🕑 Added 2023-07-26 14:07:38 +0000 UTC[Link to our previous installment in this series.]
Note that I changed the title of this goofy little pseudo-story effort to The Trouble with Emerald from the previous We Have an Emerald Problem, as I found the former a tad punchier.
So!
I've been trying to think of something to do with the various DiD sketch sets I have kicking around that feature backup superheroine Emerald, who appears as basically a dark-haired, maskless variation on Emp's tattered-suit design (and modern-era physique) from Empowered. Technically, the character predates Emp as a DiD commission subject by quite some time, but that's another story I'll address at a later date (well, maybe).
Recently, my ever-mercurial muse abruptly informed me of a wacky yet strangely compelling narrative concept into which I could twist and repurpose the Emerald sketch sets. I can tell you, dear readers, that this approach to a suspiciously distress-prone superdamsel will wind up treading rather different teritory than Empowered, though conveyed via similarly heavy (if not even heavier) doses of cheesecake.
Much like some of the earlier Rose & Lily sets, this non-comic story format will feature mostly random DiD sketches slathered on with plenty of new text conveying the narrative proper, such as it is.
Previous installments established, via the narration of conspiracy-theorizing supervillain Deathmasque, that distress-prone heroine Emerald was by far the favorite "superhottie" of the so-called "dark-cape community"—to a possibly anomalous if not inexplicable degree.
I'm very short on time right now, so let's get straight into the action, as these new pages feature Deathmasque narrating an incident based on several famous Spider-Woman issues from the 70s, which have been the basis of many such damsel-y commissions on my part:
Note that the bit re: the Villainbros of Taste Network's camdrones explains how these images are being captured—ha ha!—while hinting a wee bit at the single element of worldbuilding that makes the Emerald capeverse disastrously unique. (More on this matter later, needless to say.)
Note also that I included the original sketches without text in the image gallery above, in case you prefer your damsel-y cheesecake sans narrative blithering.)
UPDATE: Uh, that would be "DEPREDATION," not g-d "DEPRADATION", for f**k's sake. The only excuse I can think up for this shocking spelling error is that, well, I've probably never written out said vocabulary word before. Here's the corrected version, as seen in a cropped version for Twitter (er, "X"):
Note that these two pages were sketched with new 8B(!) 2mm leads recently discovered on Amazon, which pencil even more silky-smooth and with less effort than the 5B leads I was using on earlier pages. Gotta say that this 8B experience was truly a pleasure compared to the grinding inkwork of the test pages from The Chaste and the Chained I was working on at the same time and to the digital frustration of failed CSP brush tests I was simultaneously carrying out on $20 tier art requests; that's why these new Emerald pages are so anomalously tight, as they provided a welcome respite from those other, far more maddening artistic efforts.
Anyhoo, enjoy also the various roughs used to develop the DiD poses on these pages. Even though The Trouble with Emerald will never be a published project, I figure working out these poses is never a waste of time, as they could be reused in potential future comics such as The Chaste and the Chained or Empowered.
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, but something should be coming up in the next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?
Comments
Jack Hallows
Thanks. When you work you loose track of time o___ sorry if I cause any issues
Adam Warren
'Tis done; will likely post as part of the Monthly Bonus dealie.
Jack Hallows
No worries, been out of it so I can't remember what has been posted. Thanks for the heads up.
Adam Warren
I'm working on it, but the fact that your req had two figures (full figures, no less) in it is not helping matters much, I'm afraid.
Burninator
Yeah, but A. Powers are cheating and can potentially enable at least near-perfect information, and B. Those inefficiencies get increasingly hard to exploit with scale, and Emerald is managing a pretty damn large pair of endowments.
Jack Hallows
has the patreon req been done for this month?
andrew
That's only possible with Perfect Damsel Information, but barring that there are always inefficiencies in any exchange system.
Burninator
I thought the Efficient Damsel Hypothesis implies that Damsel Arbitrage isn't possible?
Dave Van Domelen
I take it that more than the narrative was inspired by Spider-Woman, with the baddies being based on the Brothers Grimm and Hangman?
andrew
Did we just witness Damsel Arbitrage, wherein the hotness of a bound super-heroine was used to eliminate two bad guys so that one bad guy could kidnap her, thus ultimately lowering the number of criminals in society resulting in a net positive outcome? I'm suddenly not sure which is more appealing, the cute damsel hottie or this hypothetical alternate form of heroism which would necessitate more damsel hotties.
