Onward to day 2!
Archmage had to edit down the first panel a lot. I got a little carried away with my explanation. So this is a SUPER SIMPLIFIED version of my answer.
Looooved drawing and “coloring” Kanryl in the second panel. XD I find it pretty awesome that someone bothered to ask a question to a character who only appeared in 2 pages. Made quite an impact, eh?
Aaand of course the last panel. For those of you who’ve never heard of Rule 63 ((quoted from Urban Dictionary)): “Rule 63 is a rule of the internet that reads as follows: “For any given male character, there is a female version of that character.” This also apply to female characters turning into males. ” When I got that request I just HAD TO draw it. I debated on which character to protray but I eventually settled on Tanna and Luero (he’s a red head! SURPRISE!) since I thought they would have the funniest dynamic. 
I went with the whole “newly transformed” angle as opposed to the “alternate realty” version for my own amusement. I may reveal the 63′d versions of some of the other character’s in time… perhaps this time next year? Anyone mind this Q&A week becoming an annual thing??
Really enjoying this week! Thanks for the awesome responses, guys!! 
Full size version posted to my DA here: http://naariekermie.deviantart.com/#/d4kgtfh
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EEEEEEEKKKK !!!!My question was asked. Thanks! ::faints then wakes up.:: I would not mind a Q&A every now and then. It could be a filler when you are sick or need to take some time off. Or when a chapter ends. (Like what happened. or on a holiday.) I’ve enjoyed the Q&A pages. Even if they have only been just 2 pages so far. But I must say. It would be nice to see the color in the comic. But I would rather see a M-W-F update with no color. Then a M-F comic with color. Or how long it would take you. ::Shrugs:: Keep up the good work! Also it could be just me but boy Tanna reminds me of a Hobbit. I don’t know why…But I can understand Luero when he touches his new lady boobs. Heck I’d do the same thing. ::Drools::……….
I think every guy would do the same thing… if not more.
Good to see I have your seal of approval!! I was hoping you’d like it!
Looks like the Q&A filler is going over really well!! I’m having a lot of fun with it. Doing something silly like this and not having to worry about story is a great way to recharge my batteries so to speak. I’m seriously considering making this an annual thing during the holiday week.
While I do enjoy coloring on occasion it does take a lot of extra effort. Especially since I use the cheap version of MangaStudio to do my comic which doesn’t have an eye dropper tool. So, when it comes to matching colors I have to eyeball it. Which is tricky for obvious reasons. Coloring filler and the random special page is doable… coloring every update on the other hand…
As far as the Hobbit-likeness of Tanna… Well, I was marathoning LoTRs while working on my comic so it’s a big possibility it infiltrated my subconscious. XD XD XD
Speaking about Hobbits and LoTR. Did you see the new “The Hobbit” Movie Trailer? A link if you want to see it on You-Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0k3kHtyoqc
(note) My skin got guess bumps when I heard most of the old cast voices.
Saw the trailer. EPIC.
I’m sooo going to the midnight showing Day 1 in full costume. It’s going to be AWESOME!
I read this while I was waiting for the next movie to start in the cinema, and when I read the last box I dropped my popcorn and started laughing in front of a bunch of little kids who looked at me like I was some kind of psychopath which was pretty awkward… And Tanna reminds me of a guy out of lord of the rings! XD
Omg, that’s an awesome visual!! XD
Looks like we owe someone a bucket of popcorn! Our bad!
“It’s cliche for a reason!” Oh, oh fire and rain! I’m going to have that stuck in my head now every time I see a gender transform scene.
Yeah I’m still laughing.
It’s good to know our silly little comic has impacted a life today.
I like the Q&A a lot for a filler comic. As far as color, it might be nice to see it for fillers or maybe every 100 comics or something. I must say I love the story so far and am so happy you update regularly. ^_^ and Q&A would make an awesome yearly gift to us. <3
Thanks for the feedback! The Q&A seems to be going over really well and I’m having a blast!! I’d love to make it an annual holiday gift to all my lovely readers!
Color every 100 comics?
Naw, unless you’re going to do the newspaper thing of Sunday’s is bigger and in color, I would just use color in special occasions where it adds a special emotion, and/or wait until you can manage full color all the time.
Every 100 is too infrequent.
Naarie is really enjoying her pinups.
Enjoying them a little too much, I think…
Yeah… She likes drawing the, er, Feminine figure.
Not denying it! Womanly figures are gorgeous.
Who’s gonna argue??
Never.
Panel 2… That one made me laugh out loud.
Awesome! Kanryl is a fun character. Then again I have fun with most of my characters.
I’m really enjoying myself.
I’m just honored he took the time to answer at all! He doesn’t seem too interested in the question. But then, questions don’t have antlers or beaks or paws, so I guess he wouldn’t be.
Or, I suppose from what Archmage says below, it might be that SHE isn’t interested. Though I completely assumed Kanryl was a guy until I saw those comments.
So you think Kanryl is a girl then… Interesting, add one tally in the Female column.
No, actually, I still think of him as a guy!I just meant that the fact that you’re keeping this sort of tally made me realize I could maybe possibly maybe be mistaken.
*Taps fingers together* Excellent…
Alright, finished catching up the chapter-and-a-half i missed! Maybe you’ll remember me, maybe not. It’s good to be back.
Ps: avoid reading comics at 3 am. You lose a bit of the story.
lol, yeah. I read the entire backlog of 8bit theater over one evening and I lost a LOT of the plot. I hardly remember the premise because of that. Oh and it’s hard to forget an alien.
I don’t know what you all are talking about. I do some of my best work at 3am.
I, on the other hand, don’t. I do some of my worst grammatical work at 3am.
The English language tis an elusive prey when thine pillow beckons.
Verily.
In my case it varies. I actually wrote a song at 2 am… But i got the rythims(how i hate this word… Never write it right… Tell me what mistake I made this time.) completely wrong. XD
Oh I didn’t say that I couldn’t write at 3am, inspiration strikes best after a pizza, a bottle of wine, and sleep deprivation. It’s just the technical stuff that eludes me.
And who cares if your Rhythm’s wrong, just lay down that funky fresh beat so I can shuffle like the overweight white boy that I am.
If you want, i’ll post it here. I still have the notepad file.
If you want your 3am stuff on the internet, be my guest.
I actually once wrote a decent poem around 3 am – the caveat being that I was in a car and couldn’t actually read what I was writing either. But by the time I looked at it the next morning – surprisingly cool.
It’s nice to find inspiration and then like it the morning after.
That sounds awesome! XD I’d be interested in reading that!!
I do some pretty interesting story planning when I’m letting my mind wander before bed. Not all of it immediately usable but it’s interesting to see where my mind goes and I usually end up with enough to catalog for later inspiration.
I used to do the same with jokes that struck me right before sleep. But when I read them the next day I realized that my “hilarious jokes” were the literary equivalent of “fart fart booger- insert dick joke here… insert dick lol” and not exactly the high brow brilliance that I thought they were the night before.
Apparently my sleep deprived sense of humor is pretty immature. Who knew?
I do the same thing!! With stories, at least.
Here goes nothing:
The Song Of A Hero. (based on a few songs from the skyrim world.)
Beware, beware,
The dragons have come.
Run away, far away,
Flee to your homes.
Death is upon us,
All hope we lost.
And on the horizon,
We see only the frost.
The dragons are rulers,
Powerful and fey,
A hero is needed,
To save us today.
Part above needs rhyme reworking. I’d rather avoid using more obscure words like fey(magical).
A champion is born,
Our savior is here.
To the fight he runs,
His battle-cry we hear.
Through the fire and ice,
The wind and the rain.
His battle is fierce,
We suffer his pain.
For him we are singing,
But the dragon is strong.
The size of a mountain,
Against a blade and a song.
The hero comes back,
From the battle victorious.
Now as before,
A millenia long gone.
We still gather around,
And we sing this song.
There are also two lines missing near the end. I habe no idea what to fill those with… :/
How’s this?
Waiting for the return
of a warrior so brave.
For the dragon is back
and I his slave.
They say hope is eternal
this I truely believe.
For if he does not
our suffering
will never
End.
I like to end poems without the rhyming since this would make more of an impact on the closing stanza. Other than that, it’s pretty good. I would change some of the wording in the 2nd and 3rd stanzas, they’re a bit too obvious. Could sound amazing if it was translated into one of Tolkien’s languages and sung by a choir, maybe Dwarven… but that could be just because I watched The Hobbit trailer again.
It’s like Skyrim has become a way of life, I think I’m going to stay away from it until I have like a month with nothing to do.
I really liked that start, but i’m not one for that kind of end, sorry.
I would have never guessed those are called stanzas. O_o we call them estrofes (which sounds like a vegetable.) in portuguese.
THE MORE YOU LEARN *insert rainbow*
Eh, to each his own. That was just me tossing something together at work in 5 minutes.
That was a very inspired 5 minutes.
I have my moments.
Not Dwarvish. go with Dovah. I mean, If the song involves dragons on such a scale than it may as well be in their language. (or it could just be that I’ve been havn’t played any videogames in the past 3 weeks and I’ve had the tytle song stuck in my head for several days.)
Hee hee @ Leuro wit boobies! <3
I think Luero was the best choice for this. It was either him or Rolan and I don’t think Rolan’s would have been as funny. Unless Naarie did something like the “Tanna as a high elf” picture… hmm…
Or try Kanryl as a woman.
See, that would be funny because you’d make him gab incessantly like a woman.
Hmm, the next most important man that has appeared in the comic would be… Archmage!
You fiend, how could you suggest that, now she’s heard you! Besides, it would pretty much be the same reaction as Luero.
So, you think Kanryl is a Guy?
Yes, yes I do.
Interesting… I’m keeping a running tally
Very good answer from Kanryl. XD The different ears are majorly cool, especially the Dark Elf ones. And the third panel. I don’t even need to say more.
I’ve been waiting for an excuse to draw the difference in elf ears in diagram form for a while. So glad I finally got an opportunity to!
Kanryl is by far my favorite character. I predict some catastophic event is going to happen and as he is the only “back to nature” type wood elf he is going to end up saving the day somehow. Don’t ask me how, maybe he will aqua-man it and call on his animal friends or something. But his character is too unique not to affect the story.
The Kanryl/Aquaman comparison had me rolling. XD
It really amuses me that people have taken such a liking to the character despite the infrequent appearances so far.
He DOES stick out as the most unique character in the comic. Walking around with animals like he was Snow White, sticks in his hair like he was a hobo…
You know you love him.
it’s cliche for a reason XD i love that and the …Taller….i don’t need to be taller i’m allready pretty damned tall ^.^
Yeah, just rub in to those of us who are vertically challenged!!
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*tear*
This is the first time i’m not sure if Naarie is joking or being serious… So I don’t know if I should laugh or say something nice.
Wait, I thought you were american? Why does it say I posted that at 2 pm when its 8? It should say 5, 6 or 7 I think…
We are Americans. In California (West Coast baby!). Right now my clock says 3:35.
AMERICA IS STRANGE.
The site’s default UTM is -8.
In the comments is best to assume I’m joking.
UNLESS YOU’D RATHER IMAGINE ME SHOUTING AND POUNDING MY FIST ON THE KEYBOARD WHEN I TYPE LIKE THIS!!!!111!11!
To clarify, for those of you following along, I AM short (5’3″ whaaaa? fo reals.) but I’m not upset about it. As a girl I can get away with my lack of height. Plus it’s a lot easier to tell when guys are checking out my rack. Not only to they have to crane their necks down to make eye contact in the first place, they have to practically fall over themselves to check out my goodies.
You’re just rubbing that in cuz I’m 6’3″ aren’t you…
edit: Sweet! I get post number 1337!
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I’m somewhere between 175 cm and 183, I think. Someone convert that to feet please? I dont even know why you Americans still use the Imperial sistem…
How do I not know my own heigh(t?)? I’m 15, and I actually woke up one day 5 cm taller. Or everything else shrunk.
GROWING IS CONFUSING.
175 is 5’10″ in American STOOPID calculations.
5’3″ is 160cm in the rest of the world.
6’3″ is 190cm in the rest of the world. (Damn that sounds tall)
I remember in high school when I would get into my car in the morning I would have to adjust my mirror up to compensate. When I left school in the evening, I would adjust it down. Now that I’m old and decrepit, I don’t adjust it anymore… *sadface*
And as a 15 year old, naturally after reading that I want pictures. XD if you could, that is. Or if you want to.
*trying to cover up mistake*
i’m 15 and 170cm atm…i havent checked lately but i doubt i’ve grown to much….dammit i can never figure out the feet thing and i can’t be stuffed attempting it >.<
also you're a strange little man and you have my pity. because i can…
how did my one comment get so many comments…it's a miracle
Looks like I’m the shortest one! Now everyone out of the way, I can’t see!! *stands on tippy-toes*
@Naarie- You are no longer the shortest! I am 5’0″, and won’t be growing any more as I am most definitely an adult. Hence the “Minja” nickname (It means midget-ninja for those who know not of the wonders of AskaNinja).
I
AM
A
GIANT!
*flex*
I am about 5’7″ (170 cm fo the non-americans who probably have epic accents[you would not BELIEVE how long that took me considering it's 10:30 PM my time even with the frame of reference {Thanks Archmage}]) so we’re about the same height Kat!
Ears… of elves!
The groping? Is not a cliché, is the first thing we could logicaly do if gender swaped. Those are new you know… the curiosity…
True Dat.
Boys are sooo weird! I know if I were ever stuck in a gender swap episode I would totally not act inappropriately.
…
*shifty eyes*
Of course you wouldn’t, and it’s not too hard to figure that one out.
What new things would you now have the option to squeeze? You know full well that those ain’t for squeezin’.