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My post here on Halloween is indeed pretty terrifying if you live in fear of giant dongs flopping in the cold wind of the night. I kid but it is actually quite rare in my work that the "main" panel of a page is a full body shot of a male. I thought about having Halver struggle to walk, seeing as how this is his first human body. But I want him to look determined and purposeful here, and that id...

Night of the Living Libido

Thanks to this commission for Klaus I have actually have something Halloween themed to post on the day itself for once! Looking at this it makes me think that Derek was lucky he happened to be in a chaste relationship when the lewd apocalypse went down, or he'd be in the horde already. XD

Hey fun fact every shadow here is somebody, not counting the hands coming in from the left. Also Liz ...

Halloween Pin Up: Ring Ghost Jane

Jane wins this year's Halloween Discord poll! You know, I've never actually seen "The Ring." Personally I think it's the hentai that's kept this ghost a pop culture staple after all this time. I originally picked Jane for this concept under the notion that she would be thicc enough to get stuck in the screen. But once I got to drawing I realized that all modern TVs are wide and I haven't seen a...

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I put a lot of thought into how the crawlers would get their physical bodies to Earth. Crawlers are technically aliens, but spaceships just never felt like the right fit. I imagine the Red World as a death metal album cover brought to life. Being chained into a spiky coffin and being fired like a bullet through cross dimensional portal felt more in line with what I was thinking. That was the p...

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Calling back to how Switch parted ways with Casey at the end of the first comic here. Though Halver isn't quite so inclined to kiss his host goodbye. And as Halver alludes, it's not quite a real goodbye either. He's going to have to fight Lydia off with a stick if he shows up in front of her in a human body.

Other than that I think this page speaks for itself pretty well an...

Ruby and The Samu

Continuing the key party from last time, this week introduces the hostess herself, Jane's mom, Ruby Deighan! I'm going to leave it up reader interpretation whether or not she was handed that drink or somehow had it all along without spilling it everywhere. XD

Like Ophelia, Ruby deviates from my trend of having the moms look like exaggerated versions of their daughters. Ruby's similar...

Chloe and Frank

This commission for Kaiser Karlo features Chloe getting it on with Kristina's dad, Frank! This one is canonical and takes place shortly after the events of the visual novel.

The scenario involves Chloe following her teacher, Miss Nakano, to what she suspected was a mid-day booty call. Chloe was right. She got off hard watching Frank bang her teacher from her vantage point in a tree outsi...

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I'm glad that the fifth panel called for a wide shot to show Lydia spying, because from any other angle I have no idea how I would have presented women this busty in a three-way hug. No oxygen is escaping the middle of that embrace.

I thought it fitting that Switch wouldn't be able to help but presume some intimacy with Bria, despite having just "met" her for the first time...

Hurricanes and Schedules

Hey gang just a quick update here. As you may have heard, Florida is expected to experience ever more fury from the gods we've purposely angered in the form of yet another hurricane this week. I'm in Orlando and that's mostly proven to be a relatively safe location geographically. You don't build Disney World in a place that gets demolished every storm season after all. But even so I'm not ruli...

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Casey is definitely not intended to be the sensitive one when it comes to her and Bria's relationship. But I imagine Casey's heart being in the right place as she's blurting out Bria's secrets here. Casey trusts Switch so completely that it sort of doesn't occur to her that she's blabbing to someone Bria sees as a stranger.

I wondered if Bria might be coming off a little uncharacterist...

Key Party: Miles and Ophelia

I've been hearing a fair amount of interest in the parents and teachers from readers lately, so I'm going to do a series of pin ups focusing on them for awhile! 

The premise revolves around Jane's mom, Ruby, throwing her annual key party, where couples in her social circle come to swap partners for a night. Think of it like a more toned down, discrete version of one of Jane's sex par...

Announcing Miss Castlewood!

I'm pleased to announce a new ongoing reward for all supporters around here! :D

Miss Castlewood is a dating sim Kal and I have been working on for awhile now starring the cast of This Romantic World. The story this time revolves around the girls competing in a swimsuit contest for a big cash prize and you play as the judge who will cast the deciding vote. On to the hypothetical questions ...

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With as thrilled as Casey is to see Switch here, it might be easy to forget that in the original comic they didn't always get along. So this page is a little reminder of what their dynamic was actually like along with some exposition as to how Switch is piloting her body.

I don't have a ton else to add on this one, I feel like this page says everything I want it to well enough. It's been...

Dana Sequence Volume One Cover

This commission for Licorice Lain is a book cover for Dana Sequence Volume One! Featured here is Shiloh Draper, a tattoo artist working at a place called Kittie Tats. With this series Licorice has put together a fun cast of characters that imply a sense of community in the story and world that I think TRW readers will appreciate. If you're interested you can read chapter one for free right 2024-09-22 04:23:53 +0000 UTC View Post

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Scene complete! Meanwhile it looks like I get to continue my unsettling pattern of walking back something I said the previous week. I mentioned that Chloe would have zero upper body strength but after some contemplation and reader feedback I realized that wouldn't be the case. All that tree climbing would probably leave her with muscles carved out of wood lol. I guess in my head I figured she'd...

TRW Strips #130 and 131

Most of this comic was about players not taking the game seriously enough. But I think many DnD fans probably have a story about a game master who had the opposite problem and took the game too seriously.

It's an easy mistake to make, I'm sure. I imagine a lot of GMs fall into the trap of writing what ends up being more of a movie script than an interactive adventure. You g...

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I feel like I need to clarify little of what I said about Elianna being a smug girlfriend last week. I didn't mean to imply she would never have a shy or flustered moment in their relationship. There will likely be lots of those. I meant more like that she was going to stay true to her bossy/overachieving personality despite how thrilled she is to be with Derek.

As for Chlo...

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Millie hasn't slept in days, remember? XD

I gave a lot of thought about how Elianna would act when she was finally in a relationship. Since she's such a prude the impulse was to make her shy and prone to blushing. But that doesn't really fit with her personality the way I see her in my head.

Elianna's character flaws have been front and center in her story so far: she can't re...

TRW Strips #129

In DnD, as in life, you can never predict how people are going to act. The last pages of this story are an homage to every game master who had their well-laid plans dashed because the players behaved unexpectedly. It could be that your players take everything deadly serious until your story needs them to and then they inexplicably start dicking around or, as in this case, a bunch ...

The Standees are Now Available!

The standees have arrived and they turned out great! We have 18 of each girl for individual sale for $10 as well as five bundles of all of them for $35 (limit one per customer on those.) We've also got a new Rogue magnet as well!

If you're interested you can find our shop right 2024-09-01 01:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post

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Made it! Thank you all for bearing with me!

Elianna was a bit quick to refer to Derek as her "boyfriend" a few pages ago, considering the two of them had been an item for less than twelve hours at that point. And I've chosen to double down on that by having her already calling him pet names because it just feels like something she would do. She was really bummed about being single so she...

Painted Up Friday

Real quick before getting into the commission: thank you for the well wishes on my previous post. I think my fever finally broke a few hours ago and that's made a world of difference for me. I'm hoping I wake up at reasonable operating capacity in the morning.

Moving on, this commission for SlimReapin features Friday Calero from our upcoming game, This Clandestine World! Specifically, th...

TRW Will Post on Saturday This Week.

2024 has been, by far, the most calamitous year for me personally since I started this business nearly ten years ago. It feels like I haven't been able to go two months without having to make a post like this. I seem to have caught covid for a second time. I say "seem" because I haven't been tested but I have all the same weird ass symptoms that I had the first time aroun...

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One thing I like about Millie and Chloe together visually is what contrasting body types they have, which is relatively rare in the lesbian couplings I draw. Feels that way, anyway. For example Casey/Bria and Sylvia/Raina are both couples with more or less identical bodies. Even Trish and Bria are the same height. The only real contrasting pair that comes to mind offhand that got a full scene w...

TRW Strips #128

It seems like about half the time when I attempt to cut ahead for comedic effect, people just think they missed a page. Did it happen for you this time? 

In Millie's defense, being the healer is a famously thankless role that can be a tough sell to many. When engaging in a vicarious fantasy adventure it's not unreasonable for one to want to be a flashy sword-swinging ass-kicker, not ...

First Wave

Allow me to explain this random selection of TRW ladies posing in swimsuits. Kal and I have wanted to offer character standees in the merch store for ages, but could never find anywhere that could make them for us at a reasonable price. Not until recently, that is. We found a distributor and got the idea for me to rework the models from the visual novel into something we could put into producti...

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One thing I've always tried to keep consistent about Chloe is that while she aspires to be a manipulative type like Jane, her inability to hide her true emotions is always her undoing in that regard. I feel this comes across pretty well in the idea that her entire tsundere arc with Millie lasted for maybe ten minutes within the story.

I realized just as I was about to post ...

Vintage Millie

This commission for Henry features Millie imagined as a classic pin up girl! It's a neat concept, I think. Part of the fun of commissions is taking on ideas that wouldn't have occurred to me on my own, especially when TRW characters. Hope you like this one, I liked making it!

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I got a comment on Twitter on the last page from someone who said they were falling behind on the lore. I try to generally make TRW welcoming to to new readers on a page by page basis. But these last few pages admittedly lean pretty hard on prior knowledge of my older work. If you've never played the visual novel or read my previous comic, you haven't really been given any indication as to why ...

TRW Strips #127

I'm not familiar with the official mechanics of how succubi work in actual DnD. Come to think of it, I'm hazy on what succubi are actually about in mythology in general. In the media I consume they're often just presented as highly sexual women with demonic features. They like to fuck, sure, but the catch or consequence for the mortal involved in said fucking isn't ...