Hey All, welcome to Bartoon's Recurve! This is a future world where plastic poisoning has caused the population to become 90% men. After a global war, a pacification and new government establishment, science created a medical breakthrough! They could fix the population imbalance! The plan is to roll-out to the entire world, but first, they need to propogandize everyone. And the gov found their mascot in Layton/Laysee!

In chapter 2, layton will get drafted to the recurve program. He'll go through some tough decisions and he'll need all the help he can get!

I've been playing around with different settings and I think i have a good idea of how to typeset for chapter 2. Apologies for the varying typeset throughout this comic!! I was experimenting and it's a lot of effort to go back through to correct and unify everything. Expect greater things from chapter 2!

This is the complete first chapter. apologies to all my supporters for taking so long. As a mea culpa I've got a much delayed christmas episode I'll be posting soon! I've also got my second comic lined up as well. About a galactic emperor's son escaping a life of nobility, and running into a space mercenary. The good news is I've learned a good workflow to get everything lined up and not wasting precious time creating useless images.

If you like this and want to see my other two projects, subscribe at Patreon, @bartoon

page 10 : Woah there, mister ! I think your helmet is haunted !

page 23 : So far we had the dialogues without bubbles, colored letters with black borders, and all of a sudden they add white bubbles ! The contrast set me off ! Then at page 31 it's back without the bubbles, then next page it's bubbles without black bordered letters, then back without bubbles again ! A bit confusing !

page 33 to 34 : Then think of this as your down payment *clock* Then think of this as your down payment. Woops, record is scratched, here...

page 36 : "Jessica was shocked [...] They never had proper sex until now !" ... guess putting it in in the first pages doesn't count ...

Okay, my suspension of disbelief is broken. Too much inconsistency. I'm out.

Last edited on 03 January 2026, 20:01.

Base +6, XxHybridFreakxX +18

Hey @aeroplume72. I'll probably go back thru and edit this chapter after I release chapter 2. I've improved my workflow so these inconsistencies aren't as terrible. And I've learned how to use word bubbles. You can actually see a lot of the improvements in the Christmas episode. But even from the Christmas episode I learned more ways to improve! So chapter 2 should be an even better improvement!

I just need to set aside a few hours to edit but I don't want it impeding chapter 2 or 3s progress (or the new comic Runway Prince or the game). I think you'll see a dramatic improvement in the coming chapters.

An example of the improved workflow is I was doing all this directly in Photoshop. Now, I've written out the entire story pages in a word doc. I include the text everyone is saying. And I use that to ensure the story is consistent. It's quite hard to manage 50 files.

All that to say thanks for the feedback. And I hope you enjoy the next chapter!

Base +6, qwerty98765 +6

Very nice, congrats, where are you launching your chapters?

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