>Personally, I read her actions ("offering" her captive a dress and cloak, etc) to be much more rooted in humiliation than gentleness or caring.
Why not both, Jason? Yeah, there's an element of humiliation in it, but she's also not being nasty about it. I appreciate it a lot, too much humiliation stuff can go way too far for my tastes. This is nice and soft and just right for me.
Well, she doesn't have much of a choice. Besides, as much as I love the build-up and characterization there should be some balance. I don't know about you but I'm happy to suspend my disbelief in order to progress the plot a bit rather than have her sit in that cell for another 5 pages before she inevitably relents.
I find the comments about the captor being a caring Mistress to be really interesting. Personally, I read her actions ("offering" her captive a dress and cloak, etc) to be much more rooted in humiliation than gentleness or caring. To be clear, that's not a complaint at all - it's just interesting to see how differently the same images and actions can be interpreted by different readers.
I ran out of pages at the same time as I went on a physical vacation, I was going to work ahead but I got caught up in other work so I had nothing to upload for a while.
I'm back now and working on the next page, still in the line art phase. I had a bit of difficulty since I'm a bit out of practice.
I agree it sucks that we had no notice that he'd be gone until about a week after the fact, but after 28 weeks of fairly consistent content delivery, he's definitely earned a break.
Also, he definitely meant that it'd be a few days before he'd come back from his trip. This was most likely around the 12th, when he delivered the April bonus page. Assuming that's the case, he got back five (or so) days ago and is probably working on the next three pages of the comic, which definitely wasn't complete when he left.
@Blah: Yes, but he posted here 11 days ago that that it would be "a few days."
I'm totally okay with the wait. Satin Minions is some of the best art in this field, and this comic is no exception. We just want to know. If we were told a few weeks that would be fine. Everyone is entitled to a vacation, but to say a few days and it be nearly two weeks? That's different.
Sheik is already gender-swapped (disguised?) princess Zelda, so now we're swapping her back? Or keeping him male? Is he/she the top or bottom? I'm gonna need a flowchart here.
I don't know what I'd link to. I'm not really a content aggregator.
Aww. Transformation and gender/body swapping are pretty awesome. I'd draw it but having OCD/Perfectionism as a child means I can barely do stick figures :\
What's up with the slave girl's lips? They've been fluctuating between pink (20, 21, 23, 26, April bonus) and slightly darker skin color (9-19, 22, 24, 27, and 28). Is it just another case of accidentally deactivated layers or is it intentional?
I just love her personality, she's sweetly condescending and even almost motherly. I also like how it seems she cares for Slave Girl, but like somebody would care for a pet, not a person. I hope you don't feel pressured to get to the smut too quickly, the characterization going on here is the most important part in my opinion. It makes the smut all the more effective and compelling when it does eventually arrive.
I'm also glad you're keeping her with short hair, I love that look.
>So is she tearing up because she realizes she has zero chance of being a man again or is it something else?
Well she's naked, trapped in a tiny room, being mocked by scary person who has a huge amount of control over her - it's a high stress scenario. I've seen a few TG comics with crying and it usually comes across as an unpleasant tonal shift or cheap ploy to make things 'mature'. That's not really where I want to go with this, so this is probably as teary as things are going to ever get.
>Where was she keeping that dress this whole time?