Pages 113-114: Interference

Greetings! Today we begin Chapter 5 of LYRAE!

Mel and Singh have found the scientist Darrow, but with the team heavily injured they are in urgent need of extraction from the Archer Building.

Unfortunately, rescue seems unlikely as alien air presence over the city of Gatehouse remains thick. But perhaps there is a plan to be made…

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Pages 111-112: A Disarming Surprise

Greetings! This time on LYRAE, Chapter 4: The Exchange is now complete!

The alien stalking the Archer has been defeated, albeit with losses on our heroes’ side. With the scientist Darrow secure, Mel and Singh can wrap up their assignment from the High Commander… if it wasn’t for one more sting in the tail.

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Be sure to check back Sunday 4th June for the next two pages as we start on LYRAE Chapter 5: Interference!

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Pages 109-110: Long Live That Thing

Greetings! This time on LYRAE, the alien menace stalking the Archer has finally been brought down. It’s time to take a breath, take stock of the situation and make sure that nothing else is about to go wrong…

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Pages 107-108: Superior Firepower

Greetings! This time on LYRAE, Mel closes in on the alien invader to finally finish this fight. This historically hasn’t worked well for the team – luckily Carr has stumbled into something quite useful…

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Page 105-106: Alien Easter

Greetings! It’s time for me to once again to reach for an overly-contrived link between the next two pages of LYRAE and whatever holiday occasion just happens to coincide with the upload date!

This time it’s Easter, and the alien cyborg is excitedly opening up what it assumes to be an oversized Easter egg. It may be somewhat disappointed with it finds, so Carr should probably get somewhere safe while the creature’s distracted.

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Pages 103-104: Cornered

Greetings! We are back on schedule, and I am very proud of these two pages!

This time on LYRAE, the alien creature proves resistant to Mel’s persuasive technique. Can the team keep the scientist Darrow from its clutches?

I ended up up experimenting a bit with custom brushes for these pages, allowing for some better detail in spark and smoke effects without bogging down my process with drawing every individual flame. Something I should have started doing a while ago, but it’s paying off now!

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Page 102: Malevolent Multitasking

Greetings! Sadly just one page again this time. I had the second almost ready to go but that plan got scuppered by a rather nasty bout of ill health that still hasn’t quite subsided.

Still, my health is still all-around better than the poor sod this guy’s glaring at.

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Be sure to check back Sunday 26th March when maybe, just maybe, I’ll follow through on that promise to be back to 2 pages per update.

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Interlude: First Contact

Greetings! I have been away from my computer for a family holiday so the next pages of LYRAE proper aren’t quite ready yet.

Luckily, I packed my sketchbook with me and broke out the old pencils in the downtime. The end result is First Contact, a short one-page comic about the first time the Captain Harv and Executive Mel met before the events of the prologue, linking in with the events portrayed in JUNE, which has been slotted into the start of Chapter 4 just as JANUARY was into Chapter 3.

I’m not entirely sure where First Contact will end up slotted in. The current pattern would have it slotted in as a prelude before Chapter 5, which doesn’t exist yet. I might end up creating a new page on the site to hold the various interludes in a single place.

Come back next time on 12th March where we return to the main plot and COLOUR!

Page 101: Add More Laser

Greetings! Sadly this is another single-page upload as the first couple months of 2023 have proven to be quite busy indeed.

This time on LYRAE, we rejoin the crew after Kel found himself face-to-face with the alien creature that has been tearing its way through the Archer Building towards the them.

This creature has already survived a direct shot to the face from Mel’s laser rifle back in Chapter 2. Mel thinks this might have a fluke and that repeated testing is in order..

Huzzah for the scientific method!

Next time, I know for certain that I will be away from my setup for too long to fully complete a two-page update for LYRAE.

Instead of drip-feeding another a single-page update to the main story however, I have an idea for something else to post up while the next full update gets prepared.

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Pages 99-100: Three Digits

Greetings! LYRAE is now officially counting its pages with 3 digits! And I must say, I’m very happy with how #100 turned out.

After the delays over the New Year break we are back to 2-page updates! This tine, Kel and Carr have barely survived the alien creature’s opening shots as it rapidly overruns their position. But they are still deep in mortal peril as Kel claims the dubious honour of getting the clearest look yet at the monstrous war machine that has been harassing our heroes…

This is fine

How will the pair survive this predicament? Will they, even? Find out on Sunday 12th February!

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