AWA – Page 70 – Kidd Commander!

AWA – Page 70

by Aria on April 26, 2018 at 11:53 PM

ohhh a BIKE

HEY SO UH if you’ve been around for a while you’ve probably seen me announce Kidd Commander print editions before, but it’s happening for real this time. Like, I got print samples and all that shit. Wow! Mile High Engage ran real long so it’s being broken up into two full color manga-sized volumes, the first one will have the first 190 pages of KC and likely total around 200 pages.

I’m only ordering a small run for now, enough to get to Patrons and sell at the convention in September, so if you’re in neither of those groups but think you’ll want one I’m opening up preorders. The books themselves are looking like they’ll be about 25 USD. I’ll be handling preorders through Storenvy, and I REALLY WANNA GET THESE ORDERED because I have no idea how long the turnaround time is on books like this so the window is gonna be pretty small. They will be available in the shop eventually and I’ll try to keep them in stock, but until I can order a second run after September they’ll most likely be scarce.

I’m finally getting around to fulfilling those book subscription tiers for Patreon, so everyone currently pledging ten dollars or more will be getting volume 1 as soon as I have it! It’s too late to get in on that one, but if you pledge in the next few weeks then you can get volume 2, the second half of Mile High Engage, which is going to be printed up as soon as I have the cash haha. I’m also aiming to have these ready for September though so it won’t be too long hopefully. I don’t think I’ll be selling digital editions in the shop, but all the five dollar patrons will get their pdf’s after I’m sure the books are finalized.

I think that’ll do for now! Thank you so much for reading

EDIT 4/27: Hi again! I got a message from a Patron who was bummed about not being able to upgrade their pledge to get volume 1, annnnd to be honest that wasn’t a problem I was anticipating. The reason for the “three payment” rule for physical reward tiers is to protect me from people who pledge, get their goods in the mail, then cancel their pledge before any money goes through or just get the books at a huge discount. Setting up a cutoff for when a pledge can be upgraded before a new book comes out works to combat this, but I’ll admit this particular book definitely came out of nowhere so nobody got a chance to up their pledge to act on it. I straight up didn’t think that would be a problem, my bad, I’ll be more vocal about it next time! For now, if you’ve already been a patron of any level for a while (which is all of you currently pledging) then if you increase your pledge to ten bucks I’ll be happy to get you on that list. I think most of you have been hanging around long enough you’re not gonna run off on me to get one free book; i mean at least wait until volume 2 comes out so you can have the whole first arc come on

thank you! sorry i got excited and surprised everybody lmao i’ll try to issue fair warning for books from now on

Charidan

No! My mortal enemy! SHOES!
- Aria
  
  phineas has it REAL bad if she’s putting on boots for this girl damn
  - Carcharadon
    
    Basically giving up her connection to the world for a crush is a pretty heavy thing, yeah.
caribouchat

Friends!
- Aria
  
  Peps!
Watto

you got me
i thought it was a bicycle as well haha
BUT THIS IS WAY HOTTER
- Aria
  
  it ALSO gives me an excuse to put like 90% more leather jackets in this comic
reynard61

Having owned a motorcycle myself (Honda CB500), I can tell you that, yes, leather is a rather important accessory if you don’t want to risk a case of road rash from even a minor fall. (Although, conversely, one *does* risk heat rash in hot weather…)
- Aria
  
  Yeah definitely, Amaare has been helping me out with the motorcycle stuff and I think the most common thing I’ve encountered between him and my research is “jesus FUCKING christ wear the right safety gear if you’re gonna get on a bike”. I see this a lot in online forums too, like, when a video of a cute person wearing a dress on a little bike was circulating half the comments were about how they needed to put on some pants haha. Agatha likes to do things Properly and humans with their skin and bones seem real fragile to her, so she’d never take a passenger without outfitting them correctly.
  
  I personally would be too terrified to ever get on one irl, being terrified of most any kind of motor vehicle after my own car accident, so I’m totally down with promoting better safety measures even in my silly anime where people get hurt and fly around in an unsafe treehouse hehe
  - Gaisa
    
    Hon, the best thing to do is get back on the horse, as they say, or the fear will rule you.
    You could say I’m speaking from experience, since I managed to pirouette my first car on its tail end before rolling it.
  - Carcharadon
    
    I learned to drive on a stick, and as if that wasn’t enough? At the time we didn’t think a car would be affordable enough to buy for just me, so the original plan was for me to learn how to ride a motorcycle – specifically, the Kawasaki my Dad owned at the time. The thing was as tanky as you can get with a motorcycle without getting into WW2-era Harley Army scout bikes, weighed as much as a tank, and I was a scrawny, tall, hundred-forty pounds soaking wet that didn’t cast a shadow at certain angles and times of day. Good times, man, that was fun. I loved my first car that I ended up with but will always regret that I didn’t end up with that iron grizzly bear of a motorcycle.
    - Aria
      
      My first car was a shitty old volvo, the doors didn’t close all the way and the dashboard was cracked but I loved it SO MUCH because it felt like SO HEAVY AND SUBSTANTIAL when i drove it lmaoo. I totally feel u
Jon Baker

Now I want to see Agatha pedalling a way-too-small bicycle. Or even a tricycle.
- Aria
  
  N Y O O M
Amaaré

Phin might be sturdy but I bet her skin isn’t immune to a 70mph cheesegrater now is it?
- Aria
  
  GOD I KNOW DAD JEEZ
Sage

Boooooookkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
- Aria
  
  GET HYYYYYYPE
Sandman366

As much as most of this page makes me giggle, I think panel 6 has it the worst….hehe~
- Aria
  
  Phineas Kidd: Fully Functional Adult
  - Carcharadon
    
    Complete with everyone’s favorite flavor of functional adulting, BITCHING. lol
Fancifulotato

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH BIKER GIRLS BIKER GIRLS