The Low Roads, Chapter 5 (comic, M/F: full body; various).

[dreamingthunder]

i don't post very much in any part of this forum but BOY do i EVER get excited when I see you've posted something. Especially from The Low Roads!!!

😀

 

[Low_Roads]

That's an intiguing idea, Lucius of music! Yes, I like it very much! I need a wide selection of bogeys (I plan a big bogey dust-up as the story progresses), and there's no reason at all why one of them couldn't be a mechanized robotic tickler! It would certainly supply a pleasing element of variety! Thank you for the suggestion!

Dreamingthunder, thank you! I'm most flattered that you'd write in with encouragement! So glad that you like the Low Roads! I've tried other projects (one-shots and fan art), but this one has proved the most rewarding to create. It's going to be a long series, years before it's complete, and I'll do all I can to keep the story fresh and entertaining!

 

[Darth Godflesh]

Thanks for your words (and your work)
Hope to catch the next episodes soon

 

[Low_Roads]

Thanks for your words (and your work)
Hope to catch the next episodes soon

Thank you! 🙂 I'll keep at it and should have something new soon!

 

[MyAuntGreta]

I have to say, I love how everyone gets a turn (and hopefully more!) in your comics. Even the zombie, even the store clerk, the school teacher -- EVERYONE. Awesome job, my friend. Great story, great artwork, great tickling. Keep up the diversity in victims, and the great work!

 

[Low_Roads]

That's most kind of you, MyAuntGreta! Thank you! Indeed, I do intend to maintain plenty of tickle-victim variety, introducing loads of new characters while finding plenty more tactile trouble for the established ones! Having lots of possible targets will allow for cross-cutting, supplying some suspence as to who gets it next! Share the hilarity!

 

[Lucius of music]

u should make ur own yahoo group so ur comics want get lost in the forum

 

[Low_Roads]

It's a solid suggestion, Lucius. Thus far, I've been rather lazy about establishing any sort of independent site for this series. Then, I hear all sorts of horror stories concerning Yahoo and fetish material (the number of folks I know who have been "Yah-screwed" is legion). Maintaining another outlet is probably more work than I want to take on right now anyway... keeping up with the TMF and TTC has proved taxing enough. You're right, though: individual art threads do tend to sink quickly (a welcome sign of the forum's creative health, actually). My solution has been to inter-connect the individual Low Roads chapters with links, then provide a master link to Chapter 1 in my signature. Anyone viewing my signature can therefore access each of the chapters in turn. Reason enough for me (if none other was needed) to stay active and visible in the community!

But thanks again for the suggestion! Your interest means quite a lot to me!

 

[Kiss_cool]

ooooh i like it! VERY nice. 🙂

when will we see the chapter 6?

 

[Low_Roads]

Hi Kiss_cool! Thanks so much for your interest! I know it's been a long time between Low Road chapters, and I'm afraid the next one will still be a few months away. I'm deep in the midst of a separate series at the moment, a non-tk story which is nearing completion (If you'd care to see the first 2 chapters, you can find them in TMF's non-tickling art secton. Look for "Spectacles of Doom". The project didn't receive enough interest here to justify continuation, but I've managed to get it up as far as Chapter 14 over at the TTC.)

I haven't forgotten the Low Roads... all the details for Chapter 6 have been mentally worked out. I promise to present it as soon as I possibly can, but that won't be before November at the earliest. Sorry for the delay, and thank you once again for writing!

 

[FeatheryOctopi]

cool

Love the story line. Great art. Thanks for posting.

 

[Low_Roads]

Love the story line. Great art. Thanks for posting.

And thank you for responding, FeatheryOctopi! I'm very pleased you're enjoying the story! Sorry that progress has been so slow of late ("Spectacles" has consumed much more of my time and effort than I originally anticipated). I'm most anxious to return to Tabor County, and plan to do so as soon as I'm able!

 

[smilepile]

Hey, Low Roads. I really love your work. And I'm impatently waiting for the next chapter. ...any idea when it might be finished?

Sorry, almost everyone has been asking that but I'm so impatient.
...and Chrsitmas is coming... maybe you want to make your fans an early christmas present?

 

[Low_Roads]

Hi Smilepile and thanks for writing! 😀 Sorry as I can be that Chapter 6 is taking so long. I got caught up in an entirely separate project which ate up the whole of the summer and fall months, and am just now recommencing work on the Low Roads. The good news is that I'm currently making solid progress on the script (it's almost done, in fact); bad news is that the chapter won't be finished before late January at the earliest. Wish I could have it ready for Christmas... you guys deserve the gift. Please bear with me just a little longer. Once rolling again, I don't plan to work on anything else until the series is completed.

 

[Floyd]

Looking forward to it!

 

[Low_Roads]

Thank you Floyd! Nice to hear from you again! And believe me, after so long a break, I'm more than eager myself to present the next chapter and get the Low Roads back on track!

 

[isabeau]

*bump...words fail me. i do have to admit to a small error on my part..well not error per se, but it wasn't until this chapter that i realized Mew meant a cat person..lol..Mercy and Persophone are cat people right? sighs..i'm dense...i would love to get into your brain..the creativity and uniqueness, at least to me, is astounding.. i told you i would bump up each chapter as i read them...

 

[Low_Roads]

*bump...words fail me. i do have to admit to a small error on my part..well not error per se, but it wasn't until this chapter that i realized Mew meant a cat person..lol..Mercy and Persophone are cat people right? sighs..i'm dense...i would love to get into your brain..the creativity and uniqueness, at least to me, is astounding.. i told you i would bump up each chapter as i read them...

Actually, it's a kind compliment to me that the "Mew" surname didn't immediately register as feline. I chose it primarily for the alliteration value (cartoon character shorthand!), something that serves only Mercy, of course! And while the Mews are indeed cat folk, it's an aspect of their character that I wanted to fly below the radar (not something that people within the Low Roads world would ever notice. No detailed explanation for why were-cats exist in the same universe as wholly humans will ever be forthcoming... it was meant to be taken as simply another type of ethnic trait). They're not the only ones, either. The goon, Snide, was crafted as a were-frog. A were-dog will be coming up in Chapter 6, and a were-ape further along still. Akira Toriyama's (sp?) Dragon Ball universe served as a model, but examples go as far back as '30s animation (Porky Pig shared his barnyard world with a host of undifferentiated animal and human characters. Think, too of Fox and Cat from Disney's Pinnochio) and likely much further. I may not be the most inventive kid on the block, but I do know where to shop! 😉

 

[Kalamos]

Actually, it's a kind compliment to me that the "Mew" surname didn't immediately register as feline.

Well, it did to me, when you first featured her in that sci-fi short comic of yours.

Toriyama really comes to mind when thinking of the variety of types and species in your stories.
And Muppets/Sesame Street, with some guys and atmospheres.

Yours feels like a self-enclosed fable-like cosmo, with unpassable woods and wastelands, putting a physical fence from the real, outside world, if any.

I noticed the stark contrast between the night world, with creeps and mutated freaks coming out, and the day time, when only "normal" folks go around, and the town looks almost cosy and safe.

Mercy, as an anthro/werecreature routinely crosses the border between the two worlds, and looks and feels somewhat at home [and at the same time, out of place] anywhere and anytime.

...

Ok, enough rambling.
Be reading you.

 

[Low_Roads]

Yours feels like a self-enclosed fable-like cosmo, with unpassable woods and wastelands, putting a physical fence from the real, outside world, if any.

That's sharp, Kal! (not that I ever expect anything less from you!) A "cloistered" environment was exactly what I was after, reducing the communities within Tabor County to manageable levels (a reader ought to feel as though he could know all the major landmarks and find his way around if he'd been there a couple of weeks). A similar dynamic is at work in "Spectacles of Doom"... Shakespeare has his storms, I have my boundaries (oh god, does that sound conceited!)

I noticed the stark contrast between the night world, with creeps and mutated freaks coming out, and the day time, when only "normal" folks go around, and the town looks almost cosy and safe.

Thank you! I had hoped that Fairview would play either way, depending on context (sort of like Lovecraft's Arkham). I'd like to accentuate this creepy contrast even further when the residents of Fairview come under night-time siege... that's a scene for much later on!

Mercy, as an anthro/werecreature routinely crosses the border between the two worlds, and looks and feels somewhat at home [and at the same time, out of place] anywhere and anytime.

Now that's really interesting. It isn't anything I consciously intended, but I see your point. Socially (as well as physically), she's a girl without firm allegiance; hence the events at the beginning of Chapter 7. Angie's friendship is her one firm rock... but that too will be tested as events proceed.