Sadly, this is one of those low-content updates I was talking about. I decided to scrap the idea I had for that group-shot I was stuck on in the “Universe Intro” story and started drawing a different layout. I also made a nice amount of progress on the Final Fight thug sprite set and today’s update is made from that. A new animation of Bred can be found in the Alternate Versions section of that gallery page linked to in the thumbnail over there. Those of you who have never played Final Fight should watch this video of the game’s car-bashing Bonus Round before seeing the animation.

Last week’s announcement that weekly updates weren’t guaranteed anymore didn’t mean that I wasn’t going to try. In fact, ScrollBoss will get an update later on tonight in an unannounced content crossover weekend. It’s really a coincidence that all of today’s content is beat-em-up video game related. Douglas Bild (Rival Turf, Brawl Brothers) is finally in full color and looking mean. I also have something that I posted a teaser of a few weeks back with new sprites of Bred and Dug from Final Fight as they may have looked in a Street Fighter Alpha game. The posted sprites are part of an upcoming full sprite set for ScrollBoss. I also went back to the old Guy: Bushin Senpu Kyaku pic and fixed the character tags for Dug and Axl.

Trick finally joins Treat in having full-color artwork. I also updated the character profiles for Trick, Treat, Negator and Hostyle. The first three were updated to have the full color artwork, while Trick, Treat and Hostyle have sketches from the year 2000 added to their profile. I also fixed the right fist of theDouglas Bild pic but I’m not sure when I’ll get to fully color it.

Bad news/Good news time: The Bad News is that this will be the last Illmosis update where I’ll definitely be updating every week. I’m not saying that I’ll only update once every two weeks but I can’t guarantee that it will always updates will hit every Sunday. The Good News is that I’m doing it to give myself more time to work on comics. Instead of having to do something just to have new material for the site, that time will go into things like that Universal Intro, Nutroll: the Illness and a minibook that will have slightly different versions of those stories and more. I’m also redesigning chunks of ScrollBoss including a hefty reworking of the graphics galleries there. Even if I don’t have a new thing ready for every update, there will be a main post on the site with previews, teasers or sketches. I’ll be back to a definite weekly schedule after I get some of these bigger projects out of the way but I really need a few months of freestyle mode to get this stuff done. There is also another comic I need to start that I can’t tell you the name of because it’d spoil something. All I’ll tell you is that I’ve been planning it for a long time and some teasers I’ve posted that seem to make no sense at all are connected to it. 2010 is going to be wild and I hope you keep coming back to see what happens.

Aw, yeah! Two pics this week, people! First up is a hastily drawn and colored pic of Passion Tanaka being deceptively goofy and kinda creepy. But that’s how she gets down so it’s okay! Valentine’s Day is a stupid holiday made to guilt people into buying expensive things for each other but I had to draw the idea once it popped into my head. The second pic is just the new design of the PowerKore characters that I mentioned last week. They’ll be appearing in that “Universal Intro” story on either page 3 or page 4 (depending on which story pattern I use). There are variations to the outfit but this is the main style.

After days of being sick and finally having to take some kind of medicine that induces sleepy time, I’m just going to throw the update on right now. You probably can’t tell if you’re reading this from the site’s main menu but I just replaced the older news module with Folger’s Crystals WordPress. The Illmosis web log will have the site updates along with posts about other things related to the sites or to my characters like Nutroll, Twofold, Passion Tanaka, the Ice Cream Man and the rest. I also ink-traced and base-colored that Douglas Bild picture from last week. I was hoping to have more art done for the update but turning into a human snot faucet, redesigning the outfits of the bad guys in this old Ice Cream Man pic (maybe I’ll put the sketches on the blog), redesigning the ScrollBoss font a bit, working on a sprite set and some other ScrollBoss stuff wore me out a bit.