Chapter: Issue 5

Well, it’s been a while, isn’ it? Prepare yourself…this is gonna be a long talk…

My site was gone for good…almost. Yes, I had the most terrible end of the year when this happened at same time I was way too worried with my cat rehab (Shiro) when my second cat, Koshi -believe it or not- suffered another type of “injury”…

It does sounds like a bad joke. Like something I’d came up to a teacher as to why I didn’t do my home work. As if god -even as an atheist- had a sick sense of humor just to test my sanity. “You don’t deserve to have a pet, just give up” or something. And in my mind it sounds terrible, terrible piteous.

But it happened.I was dumbfounded. I had taken Koshi, my 3 month old cat for a check up because he was sneezing endlessly for a couple of days already. The vet, out of nowhere had used a needle with antibiotics when I was expecting a syrup recipe or something,

But hey, I thought he knew he was doing. A couple of minute later when I arrived home I noticed his back left leg was convulsing and hurting him. In minutes he had lost all nervous connections from half of his leg and down.

Days later after several different Vets meetings.. still, as I said,I was dumbfounded, depressed, tired, buying gift because it’s xmas and I need to lift the spirit of my family who are my elderly grandmother (she is 90 this year) and my always cranky, back hurting, slow walker, blind father (who is past 80).

We’re a small family along with my mother…. and this is something I never ever talk, because at the end of a horrible week or day you just want to read something and let you imagination run wild and not come here to read about me as I was someone of importance of about RL issues.

Fantasy liberate us and make us happier, it make us think, and feel something for imaginary characters, it makes us connect with a part of ourselves that always deeply desire for something more. That’s why I draw. But I also draw because of love for what I create.

But that state of mind doesn’t work at all when my real life surroundings crumbles, emotionally I just collapse. In simple words, if I feel like shit I can’t draw shit. It sounds angsty I know, but I can’t help it. It’s what it is.

So yes, the site took about a month to get back. It took more than it needed because my mind and willpower to do anything was by the floor and video games was my alcohol.

When I finally had the energy to look up the cause of this mess I realized not only one of my site was hacked and used for hosting a phising site, my hosting also had terminated my account because of miss-communication between my paypal and the hosting, something I miss-read through the emails because I thought the first problem was the cause.

It was a clusterfuck days later. I had to ask for a new hosting and a backup restore crossing fingers that they still had one. As you can see, they did. And this was a big relief.

So yeah, sometimes when it rains it also pours on you. For all the people who cried because 2016 was a bad year because of celebrities deaths and worldwide terror attacks, I feel you. But just be thankful that nothing bad has happened you. But if it did, I hope the new Luna pages in the future can bring a smile to your life.

Still I ask for forgiveness. I didn’t even notice people from my Patreon about what exactly happened and why to this day I have not delivered the HQ files after the pledging month. I’ll be working on that the coming days. But be assure during my absence the last month was not charged for current Patrons.

Anyhow. Nowdays Shiro is better , he walks and even plays a lot and has recovered immensely. I still can’t thank enough to the people who helped me with him. In the other hand sadly I can’t say the same for Koshi, only time will tell. No vets, no money will help him, only time.

Again, sorry to put you though this horrible mess of text that you didn’t need to know about. I’m not fan of venting what I do for the right reason, I hope you understand. I’d wish to feel I have everything in order and continue working on my projects with all the willpower in my life, but everyday I always ask myself if it even is worth it. I hope you think it is.

On that note I leave you with this page (31) which in a way also talks about the will to keep living for the ones we care about. I hope you like it.

Leo

Well two days later and people were already crying I was out for months again :p
Relax, sadly the reasons are more heart breaking to me. My cat Shiro was ran over by a car and the past week was hell for me, he survived but was heavily injured and his left hip broken into pieces. Despite this, his marrow spine seems to be good and there are hopes for him to recover but it will take a lot time, money and surgery procedural.

So there is that, some people offered to help me with the bill that ascend to roughly $1500 , but to be perfectly honest the people who are supporting me through Patreon are already helping me in that regards and you don’t have do any more. For those who may want a direct suport, there is always my paypal account licantro@gmail.com

Oook, back to the comic.
Out of all story elements to discuss …Some people were wondering why Luz is naked and Luna is not :p – Just goona paste what I replied to one of the posts before:

” Any comic is for you as the reader to construe and some questions can have multiple answers
I could say ” it’s because this is what Luna sees in her mind, how she feels as human and what she was wearing before changing and Luz doesn’t wear anything because of little memories she has of her besides her face” Or it could be how Luz is more of a spiritual character character where Luna is still rooted to our human perceptions… and.. I think you get the idea.

As for this page, I think it’s much more clear now what The Fang Necklace power was all about, eh? 🙂

Take care!

Leo

So yeah….The Feels! Or so I hope… 🙂
Luna and her mother share a long waited reunion!

Why is this happening? well the ending of chapter 2 may shed some light to this 😉
Is Luna dead? is this the end? All of that to unfold next WEDNESDAY 🙂

Please Share , Howl & Comment !

Leo

Well one of the most challenging things here was to decide on Luna’s mother look. Wile she needed to look very close to Luna, I didn’t want to confuse the readers.

Well, She had a design from were I draw her back in Chapter 1 (just before Luna’s first change) and then briefly at the end of Chapter 2 (When Laura sees her), but my style of drawing doesn’t quite match today what I drew back then. To be honest the trick was on her hair, much of which is Luna’s original style from old drawings I’ve done of Luna -while now- Luna has a more rounded look to its hair 😛

Also much is on her face expression. Her face marking is a tribe thing. As for the guy…well, all what you need to know about him is just displayed on the page 😉

Page 29 will come on Nov 16 (two weeks from now), and hopefully after that will go back to weekly pages for a while.

Thanks in advance to all supporter and remember I’m always posting all the extra stuff, including Collie’s transformation comic at my Patreon.

Until then, Howls!

Leo

I’m back from my lumber state…. while Luna, well she is other way around right now.

We resuming pages Next November 2 !

Leo

A critical moment for Luna… what do you think it will happen?

In other news, wanna see how I made last page? Check out this video 🙂

As usual remember you can always get more at my patreon including Collie’s transformation comic and more!

http://www.patreon.com/alphaluna

Leo

What other thing can you say when the “death” comes for you?

Sorry for the delay, I’ve had a lot in my plate this week. Anyway I hope you enjoy it 🙂

Remember you can always get more at my patreon including Collie’s transformation comic and more!

https://www.patreon.com/alphaluna

Leo

Wolves are flying today!… And yeah, I really hope so Collie, I really hope so.

Remember you can always join my Patreon to read next page immediately at: https://www.patreon.com/alphaluna

Hugs and Howls!

Leo

Things are not going as planned for Luna… will Fang scape of this sticky situation? We’ll see ….in about 2 weeks.

I’m sorry to announce I’ll be skipping next Wednesday to catch up with some art work and because I’m also re-working a few things with the script so far.

And also because of …welp, Dark Souls 3. Belive me I’m limiting my time with the game as much as I can 😉

Keep it up and keep howling!

Leo