The Pugilist pulls a "Little Jack Horner"...

Poor fella...
All he ever really wanted was a bit of co-dependant affection... and a daily supply of pre-pubescent teenage girls to crush manually...

Well,... they say that "what goes around, comes around"... and I'd venture to say that no one will be losing any sleep over this brute's fate (even in MY creepy comic book world)!

Exactly 6 more pages to go in the main story proper (barring any unforseen accidents) and perhaps a pin-up or two before I'm finally finished with this installment. I just want the pencils done or close to finished before the July Convention in San Diego... but my expectations are becoming more and more realistic as the pages clunk along.

The ending of this story is a bit complex, so the pencils are starting to crawl as I labor carefully to fit every detail in each successive panel. I'm beginning to hate myself for starting this tale "in medias res" now... it takes careful pacing to connect the flashbacks to the present storyline, and I now think that the story would have flowed just as well had I simply told it in a straight sequential fashion.

Feh...

"Is THAT all you've got..?"

Just a bit more progress to report...
Kinda a fun little sequence that takes place after the hirsute giant's last-ditch effort to finish off our hero.
He looks up from the floor where he is slumped from injury and exhaustion, hoping to see the protagonist reeling into unconsciousness... only to catch a glimpse of his downcast grin!

Just two more panels to go on this page... and the last one is the grisly end of the Eisenvater... AT LAST!

"Velocifist..."

Just a quick update to make me feel like I'm actually making real progress...

This is the Eisenvater's "last gasp" panels... by the end of the page, his doing days are over... he's done.
I just wanted him to take one last shot at our hero before completely losing heart and falling to his knees in exhaustion.
The next set of panels shows the result of his last desperate headshot... and our boy grinning and looking down at him menacingly to show how unhurt he is.

I hope it looks as effective on paper as it does in my head...

I'm still debating putting some sort of textured element in the background of panel 3... maybe just some hatching. Is it really necessary.. I dunno...