Angelic Slayer

[Haruki-kun]

Welcome to Angelic Slayer! This is gag-a-day comic starring the Playground's resident Angel, Haruki! And also starring: The Playground!

Each individual comic is labeled "Phase". The comic does not have a continuous plot or storyline, and I have no interest in developing one at any point in the near future. But on occasion, I'll come up with a story arc that requires several comics and follow it for a couple of weeks.

I do not have an actual update schedule. I try to get a comic up every week, but most of the time I fail to do so, as school and general life get in the way. Recently, however, I've started doing short comics titled Mini-Slayer, starring the GITP Boardlings (introduced in Phase 34). These Mini-Strips take less time and effort than full comics (although some people have told me they like them more than full comics ), so when I don't have enough time to make a comic, I make a Mini. On occasion I don't have time for even that.

The newest strips are posted here on the first post. The older strips fall back into the Archive in this post as well, but are linked to instead of posted, to save your bandwidth.

Without further ado, here it is: Angelic Slayer!

Archives

Spoiler

Phase 1 - Viewpoints
Phase 2 -Don't ask about the pastry
Phase 3 - The Angel's Alignment
Phase 4 - It's really hard with three stick figure fingers
Phase 6 - Angelic Player
Phase 5 - I want U
Phase 7 - Ace Attorney
Phase 8 - Kiss or Kill
Phase 9 - I'm on a Roll!
Phase 10 - School Fumble Part 2 Part 3
Phase 11 - Ambiguity Up to 11
Phase 12 - Customer Service
Phase 13 - If Dalí worked Inkscape
Phase 14 - The Great Evil
Phase 15 - Integration Unknown
Phase 16 - It's Mine! Mine I tell you!
Phase 17 - Chapitre 1
Phase 17 - Chapitre 2
Phase 17 - Chapitre 3
Phase 17 - Chapitre 4
Phase 17 - Chapitre 5
Phase 18 - Attack of the Killer Nodes
Phase 19 - Heaven's Kitchen
Phase 20 - For the Money Part 2
Phase 21 - Assembly Required
Phase 22 - Just Dashin' Part 2 Part 3
Phase 23 - Haruki's Real Life Adventures: Shopping
Phase 24 - Offers we cannot refuse Part 2
Phase 25 - KAOS CONTROL
Phase 26 - AAAAAAAAAAA
Phase 27 - Permanently recorded
Phase 28 - X user on Y system
Phase 29 - Tragic Comedy
Phase 30 - Screwed - Episode 1
Phase 30 - Screwed - Episode 2
Phase 30 - Screwed - Episode 3
Phase 30 - Screwed - Episode 4
Phase 30 - Screwed - Episode 5
Phase 30 - Screwed - Episode 6
Phase 30 - Screwed - Episode 7
Phase 31 - iComic
Phase 32 - Happy Valentine's Day! Part 2
Phase 33 - Chocolate Milk
Phase 34 - GITP Boardlings/Board-tans
Phase 35 - Have a nice Death
Phase 36 - Seasonal Part 2
Phase 37 - Our Woes
Phase 38 - 13 years later
Phase 39 - Busted!
Phase 40 - Like an Angel
Phase 41 - Avvie
Phase 42 - Trailer


The Mini-Slayer, Starring the Boardlings:
Mini-Slayer 1
Mini-Slayer 2
Mini-Slayer 3
Mini-Slayer 4
Mini-Slayer 5


Fillers (Shirt Guy Atreyu):
The Llama Farm - 1
The Llama Farm - 2

Guest Comics
Angelic ______ - by BRC
Part 2 of AMEN Takeover - by DD the Cookiemonster
Not-quite-a-Phase - by The_Q
Comic One
Comic Two Part Two
Secret Santa - by SilverRaptor

Phase 43 - Awareness

Spoiler

Phase 44 - Pick your side

Spoiler

Phase 45 - Whose comic is it, anyway?

Spoiler

Banners - Support Angelic Slayer!
Banners are free for use and are within signature rules size limits, 120x468.

Spoiler

Picked a side yet?

Special Thanks
To Trazoi, for the Inkscape Guide. It was very helpful.

Haruki is my Intellectual Property. All other characters belong to their respective owners (all of whom gave me permission to use them in the comic).

[Mee]

This is funny.
I will continue to read it.
I hope.
So, keep it up? Yeah. Keep it up.

[Draken]

Funny.

But you should try to work those wings, they still look... Weird.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Funny, I'l check when I have some time left.

[Hoplite]

mmh, I like it. Keep them coming please.

[Bezoomy Mozg]

Good work.

[Raiser Blade]

Muy excelente.

[Holammer]

I'll have to raise my fist in approval, Inkscape for the win! We'll crush the bones of the illustrator users and suck out the marrow! (ahem, maybe not).
Keep up the good work.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Now we have to remember, The Giant uses Illustrator.

So we'll need something with Giantbane

[Holammer]

Originally Posted by Lyinginbedmon

Now we have to remember, The Giant uses Illustrator.

So we'll need something with Giantbane

Oooooh what a cheesy joke! Worst still, I didn't get it right away

[Phase]

Ahh, AMEN. All I wonder is how long will it take for me to have an appearence... And why I had to have a name that applies to so many things...

I started out with the first 3 strips, or "Phases". Of course, the Phase could change to Chapter, Episode, Chapitre, or something like that. You pick.

I keep thinking someone's calling me!

[Skippy]

Originally Posted by Holammer

I'll have to raise my fist in approval, Inkscape for the win! We'll crush the bones of the illustrator users and suck out the marrow! (ahem, maybe not).
Keep up the good work.

Dead Poets' Society FTW

Congrats, Haruki!! Great jokes and the drawing is also good!!

[Bayar]

Cool. Keep'em coming !

[Tempest Fennac]

This is quite good. Will any HALO or Imperial Navy people be featured in it?

[Zombie pixe]

Heh, cool

Nice puns, and cool ideas. Any brains..?

[Haruki-kun]

Thanks a lot for all your support. I will work on more comic strips, although probably not until monday (I might get some lucky time off, though.)

@Draken: Thanks! I'll work on the wings. Got a lot of work to do before I can catch up to Bath.

@Phase: It's just your imagination.

@Tempest: Probably, if I happen to know who they are. Also, I make a point in asking people for permission before using their characters. Most people say yes, but I still like to ask.

@Zombie Pixie: Brains, huh? Sure, why not?

[Sensate]

Originally Posted by Lyinginbedmon

Now we have to remember, The Giant uses Illustrator.

Really? That explains a few things...

Haruki-kun, I applaud you on those three phases. You've proven to be ingenious and skilled in making OotS-style webcomics. Colored speech bubbles, nearly-identical style in drawing (I'm sure you could make it match 100% with a little more effort), witty titles and lines - all those points were reminiscent of OotS a great deal.

What else can I say but, don't get bored with it; continue making it when you feel like it.

[Shas aia Toriia]

Those were pretty funny! Good job, keep up the good work!
The only possible way it could be better is if I was in it!

[Haruki-kun]

@Sensate: Thanks a lot! I'll work on it!

@Shas: Heh, well, I might surprise you sometime.

In the meantime, there's Phase 4. I have several ideas for strips, featuring several people as cameos, but given that I'm volunteering for an event at school all weekend, I opted to draw a strip that didn't take as long to make. So there it is, Phase 4.

Disclaimer:

Spoiler

I'm not even past medium. ESPECIALLY that song.

[Omicroncubed]

Originally Posted by Haruki-kun

So there it is, Phase 4.

I was just thinking of GH3 a few minutes ago. What a coincidence (However you spell that)

And that is hilarious, nice job

[Sneak]

These are actually pretty good. It's kind of refreshing to see a gag-a-day OOTS style comic after all these OOTS story comics that we've been seeing lately.

The latest one reminds me a little too much of one of the gags from the South Park Guitar Hero episode, but you may not have even seen it. They probably weren't the first to come up with that joke either anyway.

[JasonDoomsblade]

That message should pop up if someone perfects Dragon Force. I think its impossible though. Unless you use a bot like this guy did.

[Uncle Festy]

You are in the having of much awesomes.
Just a suggestion - try getting the text to fill up the bubbles. It's a waste of space otherwise.

[sheepofoblivion]

The Cake is a lie, and you all know it!!! It's awesome, although the nitpick/perfectionist inside me may have to point out a few errors... It's just my nature

Like the fact that all the Haruki's have their arms in the exact same position

[Haruki-kun]

*sigh* Just my luck. I finally start working on this and my schedule decides to disagree with me. Sorry, guys, but I have a Physics Exam on Wednesday, so all my work will be postponed until at least Wednesday afternoon. I'll try to get it done by then, after the stupid Test.

Thanks for your support, everyone. I'm glad you liked it so far.

[Ramebriz]

Don't worry man. Focus on what you actually have to do and then keep with this great job. It won't kill us to wait for a bit of days.
(and if it does i hope it's quickly and painless)

[Haruki-kun]

Anyway..... since I had some time off at school, I decided to work on a Filler Strip: Angelic Slayer, Phase 6.

Why Phase 6? Because I'm still working on Phase 5.

[Uncle Festy]

I LOLed when I read it the first time, and LOLed again when I reread it to make sure I understood it.
Drawing style tips -

• MAXIMIZE SPACE IN THE BUBBLE!
  Make a first line with a word or two, a couple equal lines with the middle one (or two) the widest, and a row with a single word at the bottom.
  Also, center the text.
• Round your stroke. Select a line, go to the Fill/Stroke dialogue, click "stroke style" and select the button that looks like a rectangle with a half circle on the top.

I'd give you screenshots for both, but I need to redownload Inkscape first.
grumble grumble stupid hard drive crash grumble grumble

[Haruki-kun]

Whoa.... thanks, Festy! I appreciate that a lot!

[sheepofoblivion]

That's why I'm in LAW and AMEN (Amen because I'm bored, LAW for the holy, justice crap)