Tabenings - Ogrek Edition

Good news, everyone! You're all being sold for parts! No, wait, that's later. CORE #11 is done!

Well, almost. The scenes are all written, save for the last 1-2 pages which I am still phrasing. Now I need to go through Uzobono's renders and polish the script before the postwork and lettering goes in. I write the script, send it to Uzo, and then I get back individual renders matching each frame. Then I revise the script to best match the renders as they came out; often I don't need to do anything but sometimes I revise more or less heavily to get things to mesh as perfectly as possible.

So that's where we are, the last two scenes are in the render engine and I've got to get the script polished so that there's no holdup on the postwork. If all goes according to plan, you'll see CORE #11 before April!

Today's Edition comes from a comic strip called "Yamara" which used to run in Dragon magazine - I told you I was an old geek - which had a character named 'Ogrek'. (Who was a half-orc? Probably?) In addition to being a would-be boyfriend of the titular main character, he also the sort of NPC for whom everything always worked out swimmingly and he always wore the most self-satisfied smirk - not in a mean or supercilious way, just the perennially pleased expression of someone whose plans always come together.

Example: Yamara got ahold of a ring (or lamp?) of wishes, and after some skeptical fol-der-ol she realized that it actually was a really-o truly-o ring of wishes and made a wish that whenever she stole something (did I mention that she was a rogue?) no one would notice.

She then went on a crime spree, snatching purses and looting storefronts. Unfortunately for Yamara, it was a ring of limited wishes and the last wish had been the one immediately prior to her larcenous one, so basically she went on a really obvious crime spree and wound up in the pokey post-haste.

Well, her would-be boyfriend Ogrek strolls into the jail with his smirk on and pays her bail, leading to the following exchange:

Yamara: "You bailed me out? Where'd you get that much money?"

Ogrek: "I stole it."