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6 thoughts on “542 – Catching Up”

  1. Keith

    Some friction, but yeah. IRL, I’d like these two…they should have kids. 😉

    1. Dawn

      I might have to draw out what their kid would look like. First thought is that their kid would look like Ongo Gablogian from “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”

    2. Scarsdale

      He’s pushing 60, she’s maybe 30, more likely less. Chuck is most likely shooting blanks, and besides, he’s talking to her like a baby sister than a love interest.

  2. ConcordBob

    It is really hard to have a favorite character, as there are so many good ones. But I think Rosa is my favorite. Chuck is a good accomplice in sneaking work, but not much for romance. Uugh.

  3. Otaku

    I mean, if they don’t have at least an inkling of what’s going down, I’m actually disappointed in Clearstream. If anything, I’m starting to wonder if they caught on and realized “Wait, we can use this.”

    Because of course they can. 😉

  4. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    I’m way ahead of you – I’ve been waiting for you to catch up. From November 2020:
    I would hope for nothing less – her and Chuck have the potential for a great deal of positive mischief.
    Speaking of which, I received the email notifying me that my order for the NSFW “Chuck and Rosa Finally Do It” (age verification required) limited edition hardcover is going to be delayed due to the pandemic. I think it’s really cool that you’ll be adding some additional stretch goal goodies when it ships – thanks for all your story and art.
    As for the inscription, ” We owe it all to you ” will be sufficient.

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542 – Catching Up
Posted on April 9, 2025 by Dawn

Putting Adobe on Blast…

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Clint
Hoo boy… I’ll admit I haven’t been keeping up on the comics industry as well as I could have these past several months, but that didn’t stop my social media feed from lighting up with a great deal of gnashing of teeth from several fellow travelers. The culprit? An early presentation by Adobe of a new product to be included with their upcoming AdobeMAX suite, called ComicBlast. Okay, so basically I bookmarked this in my head since it was about a week ago and of course everything happens the day after I write this blog. Now that Dawn and I have watched what was making everyone so upset, I’m… well, I can see it. The framing is clearly “this will be great for professionals!” rather than something meant for beginners and/or children as Adobe CEO Eric Snowden (no relation to Edward)  later tweeted in an attempt at damage control. I’m going to include some videos and y’all can judge for yourselves if you want, though it’s telling that both the “jaded pro” video and the “interested beginner” video both have questions on what exactly ComicBlast is supposed to provide for them. There are neat features but even with the idea of being able to edit and resize things afterwards, there’s a certain point where you’d be editing and rearranging so much you might as well have just started from scratch. Also yeah, I didn’t notice the first time since the video was going (probably intentionally fast) but why does she have the algorithm-generated balloons and captions and then she imports her art which… contains hand-drawn balloons and captions in the same positions? Another bizarre thing to include was the demonstration of the lineart function which makes a serious boo boo in panel 1 by shading things such that a character who was standing in front of the giant man is now standing behind him (check frames 1:58 and 2:03 in the presentation video). An artist trying to use the feature would have to redraw that arm and leg. But, yeah, you can handwave all of this as alpha development stuff. I think what really got folks in a tizzy was what one commenter brings up: Adobe consults professional photographers for Photoshop, etc., but what comics professional was consulted on this? It’s like the company didn’t take it seriously, and oh boy if there’s one thing comics industry professionals love, it’s to not be taken seriously.* (*sarcasm alert) There are certain things Dawn and I can think of that we would love to see in a helper program, and maybe there’s still time for ComicBlast to implement those. Or maybe as the last video says, Adobe will quietly take it behind the woodshed and it will never happen. We shall see. Original presentation:
Professional response:
Beginner response:
Aftermath response: