After a much too long hiatus, I've finally completed Wake book 18! Here it is, fresh off the presses (photoshop). If you're not familiar with Wake, here's a small summary:
Wake is an intergalactic convoy comprised of many different alien species who have banded together in search of new worlds and riches across the universe. All of these races have one thing in common: Their thoughts and feelings are emitted as measurable, readable "psionic waves". Some species, called active psionics, can sense and manipulate these waves, while others, called passive psionics, cannot. This story follows the adventures of the first human to join Wake, a shipwrecked girl named Navis, rescued from a distant planet. Humans are special, since they are entirely non-psionic: they can't be read or manipulated like other races.
There are 17 other books before this one, so if you aren't caught up you can get all of them here:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/k7t1d6khh0424/Wake
>>83902420
As usual, this is basically my first draft. If you notice any sorts of errors or odd wording, please point them out to me so I can fix them!
I'll upload the comic for download once the storytime is finished and I'm satisfied there are no remaining fixes that need to be made.
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>>83902477
In case you forgot in the interrim, when last we left our heroes they had recovered one "Jules" from a snowy planet along with a dangerous artifact called an "ornosphere". Unfortunately, it seems Jules was not who "he" said he was, and the ornosphere they went to all that trouble to get was a fake!
Let's see what happens next...
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It would also be a big help if people could bump the thread occasionally too. Storytimes tend to get lost in the shuffle since the OP can only bump every 15 minutes.
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I meant to post a page with that one...
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THE END
Hope you guys enjoyed this, I'll put the download link up when the final proofreading is done. ALSO stay tuned, I have another small thing to share that you might find interesting.
I really need to start this from the beginning one day rather than just read storytimes
Bump because reading.
>>83903832
What's your next project, Ouash?
>>83904537
It will be Le Collectionneur (Wake spin-off) and then Les Innommables, with a break to do the Bellybuttons if a new one comes out sometime in between.
>>83904599
You going to do that premieres armes spin-off?
>>83903109
You seem to be missing some text here.
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>>83903109
Wow glad I checked this at the last second before I left. I forgot to reenable some layers.
>>83902420
Proofreader reporting in.
Tough weekend and I'm spent as fuck, so I'll probably not get it done today.
I'll do the usual paste in the win-o if this thread isn't alive tomorrow.
Unrelated sidenote: Status on Les Inommables?
And I've finished reading it.
I didn't expect almost all of the past events in the series to come up in this issue.
Is Wake starting to wind down to a conclusion?
>>83904817
Thanks for this, I love this series.
You are a hero, friend.
>>83902987
Man I love these origami panda guys.
>>83903047
bottom left panel
>prove I wavs useful
>>83902442
What language was it originally written in?
>>83907501
French
>>83904663
I thought somebody did that already? Or at least partially? I'll look into that one but I don't want to delay on Les Innommables too much.
>>83904897
No problem, take your time. If the thread is dead by then just post them in the Win-O and mention my name, I'll find it in the archive.
>>83907403
Yeah, rereading it I noticed a few other issues that I'll have to fix. All that will get taken care of soon, then I'll put up the finished version for download.
I've clearly been missing alot of wake threads.
Glad to have some new stuff to read.
>>83902420
>Book 17
>Psychohoaust
Jesus, I really fucked up that title, didn't I...
I feel like im missing something major here. I downloaded 17 and when I go to this one Jules is suddenly a girl and there's a blatant timeskip.
>>83913391
Yeah, it feels like there are some pages missing from the end of 17.
>>83913391
At the end of 17 they're all "if this person is even who they say they are" and stuff.
I wasn't expecting him to be a her either, I thought he'd be some kind of bio weapon that took for form of one of those panda people or some kind of robot.
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bump
>>83902420
bumping for a pre-emptive thank you. I've been reading your earlier efforts.
>>83902862
> my language is called français
what a dumb made-up name for a language
>>83903162
are those the things she was using as sling-bullets back in issue #1? Like the one that gave Booboo the 'brain damage' to think independently?
I'll bump it.
bump for proofing
WOOP! WAKE IS FINALLY UP TO SPEED!
Thanks a lot for this!
What anout Le Collectionneur?
Bump, then I start proofing for reals;_;
I'm so far behind on these books it's not funny anymore. I used to buy them in Dutch but the last book we got was 11 three years ago.
#12 is out in Dutch as well. AFAIK nothing since 2013 however.
>>83902420
Proofing ~2/3rds done, should be ready Soon (TM).
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>You'd be contaminated
>>83912918
You should take your time on these. There was a lot more typos in this than usual. Normally I only find a few and mainly in the last quater of the pages (probably because you rush those to finish, i assume).
Did you skip the last page (black recap blurb page) or was it not in the scan?
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p2
last a lifetime -> last me a lifetime
nitpicky, i think it flows better with "me"
p5 b1
your being -> you being
not 100% sure
04
p4 b1
unless Morvan specifically had snivel mention misogyny i think it should be replaced/reworded with "male dominated" or something similar, because that sounds really jarring to me
08
p4 b2
despite the taking the -> despite taking the
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p1
this parasites -> this parasite/these parasites
p3
immunized -> immune
p9 b1
been informed of -> received
on second thought, "informed" sounds more formal which suits the magister, but "received" has a better flow which suits the situation so YMMV.
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p2 b1
good will -> goodwill
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p5 b1
vcouncil -> council
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p2 b2
food -> a carrot
did Morvan really use that analogy? pretty odd considering none of them should've even heard about knights or horses.
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p1 b2
he said had -> he said he had
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p8
you'd contaminated -> you'd be contaminated
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p3
humans
i haven't read the previous tomes since release but i'm assuming that's a typo with humans being all but exttinct?
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p4 b1
he'll -> we'll
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p6
i wavs useful -> i was useful
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p10 b1
pouram -> poukram
>barely an hour from page1 to 10
Sheit there's a lot of spam right now.
>>83927341
I did rush it a bit since I felt bad about taking so long to get it done. I'm out of the house on mobile right now but when I get back I'll get these corrections taken care of.
>>83928594
Hope mobile has threadwatcher or some other way to find threads again, because it seems desu is kill at the moment.
bump
Man, humans are real cunts in this universe, eh?
>>83902904
>we're going subluminal
But that means slower than light.
0/10 fucking dropped
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Ok, I'm back. Going to work on those corrections now. A few interesting notes:
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>unless Morvan specifically had snivel mention misogyny
He literally used the word misogynistic, and it's not like it has any different connotation in French. So I thought it was a little jarring too, but hey, he's the writer...
>did Morvan really use that analogy?
Yeah, and it does work because, remember the history of civilization on Tri-jj 786 mirrors human civilization, so they would've had a medieval age. Komerin would know about it because they've been to "medieval" planets before, like in Mark of the Demon. However, you drew my attention to an important correction: I didn't use carrot because neither did Morvan (carrots don't exist on Wake), but I messed up by translating the knight's steed as a "horse" (the original French said "mount"), which is wrong for the same reason why mentioning carrots doesn't fit.
>>83931344
I actually looked up the definition because that confused me too, but it is exactly what Morvan wrote. I justify it in my head as meaning their ship will become subluminal, in that it is moving so fast it can no longer reflect light or some shit. But it's kind of dumb-sounding, yeah.
>>83931542
>I actually looked up the definition because that confused me too, but it is exactly what Morvan wrote. I justify it in my head as meaning their ship will become subluminal, in that it is moving so fast it can no longer reflect light or some shit. But it's kind of dumb-sounding, yeah.
That's really stupid, fucking step it up, Morvan-senpai. Maybe he meant it like going to subspace or something.
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4chan now automatically archives a thread for 7 days (I think) after it drops off.
>>83931542
Cheers.
About the (other?) spin off, as far as I know the only Wake retaled thing that's been scanlated besdes the main series is the prequel with loli Navis.
>>83931776
Mootles called it Delayed Pruning. It's not on all boards and the search is pretty shitty.
Unless you know some of the specific wording in the OP it's quite a hassle to find anything.
>>83931542
I think in this case they meant that they were traveling at relativistic speeds, which are very fucking fast.
While we're on the subject of Euro comics; does anyone know if this series is any good? The first three books came out in my language recently and the covers look nice enough.
Ok, corrections have been made and I'm about to start the upload process. I'll post the link when it's done.
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All done!
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3gercx2eb2j9z6n
>>83933436
Thanks!
>>83933436
Fuggin' saved!
>>83931846
there's this:
>Chronicles of Wake 01 (2004) (Scanlation).cbr
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>PYScoholocaust
>>83934710
Woops, forgot about that one.
Yo Ouash, when will you redo the 16th album? I know I uploaded a better scan (bigger pages) for you back when you were storytiming the 15th I think.
The current one is something like 1250x1750.
>>83934744
Let's pretend that never happened...I fixed it in Mediafire. The image file names themselves were fine, thankfully.
>>83934794
That one was bigger but it was, I think, artificially upscaled. If I recall correctly, it had the same scanning errors as my other, lower res scan. However I've since gottan ahold of what I think is a better scan. As for when I'll get that done... I don't have a specific action plan right now. I'll do it when I want to work on something and the mood for some mindless typesetting and editing strikes me.
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>That one was bigger but it was, I think, artificially upscaled. If I recall correctly, it had the same scanning errors as my other, lower res scan.
Well, shit. Sorry about that. I remember it looked better, but maybe I'm wrong.
Hooray! Time to catch up
I have one last little thing to share with you guys. I've done a couple of these before, but I figured it was time to do another one. I recorded my process while editing (almost) the entire comic and did a timelapse of it. Some of you might find it interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVs0mNxVc0o
Nice work Sosich, nice to see such a mammoth project (mostly) finished.
Have you ever tried using typesetterer? I find it really helpful when typesetting.
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>Sosich
Dem's fighting words anon.
>>83936769
Is that a dig at me for all the typos in this one?I already apologized and fixed them, pls no bully ;_;
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>>83936832
Yeah, I realised I had a massive brainfart there.
>>83903162
Oh wow.
>>83903162
That finally explains the mystery of those spinny dart things had since tome 1.
Thanks for the dump. Interesting to see Wake almost got fucked by a Human weapon.
>>83944099
What's interesting to me is the humans also made a very fast and efficient cure, meaning they probably have allies who have psychic wired brains like most of the other aliens in the setting.
>>83944347
That is interesting since we assumed until this tome that humanity never encountered any aliens besides the Puntas and those origami pandas due to humans not having any Psi abilities.
>>83945466
They wouldn't have made the p-bomb in the first place if they hadn't already made contact with a hostile psi race.
>>83945606
The author got show some human stuff in the upcoming tomes. I want to see how far Humanity have come technologically compared to Wake.
>>83925563
You're right, I got the numbers mixed up. They don't even have a release date listed for 13 though...
I'm done waiting for that shit and I'm just going to read the scans now. Thanks for your hard work, Ouash!
>>83946540
Well if the prequel series is anything to go by, and the genetic engineering stuff that one French scientist did all on his own, I'd say humanity is on par with Wake technology, if not more advanced since they have no reliance on using psi for everything.
>>83945606
I wondered which of the alien races scared Humanity into making the P-bombs? The Human race must of got shook by them.
>>83946934
Those guys who share a boarder with Wake seem terrified of angering the humans. Or at least that's the impression they were said to give off in this issue.
So they might also share a boarder with the humans and are the buffer between Wake and human space since we know they don't share information.
Now that they have someone with a brain looking at Navis' old ship, they'll probably find out exactly where space faring humans are located and be able to make contact.
I just hope it doesn't turn into another "human kill everything and are always the bad guys" plot.
>>83902420
OH SHIT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
>>83902508
>the last panel
This guy's design was made specifically for something like that, innit.
>>83902521
And here he looks like he really let himself go. Thin as all fuck.
>>83947071
>I just hope it doesn't turn into another "human kill everything and are always the bad guys" plot.
They seemed to be very close to what HFY faggots always want their fictional humanity to be.
>>83902623
The fuck a "poukram" is?
>>83950567
An imaginary alien swearword she picked up years ago.
>>83950681
Does it at least sounds similar to something in French?
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>>83902706
>a newly introduced character who happen to be a kid from a backwards planet is coming up with a solution to a plot-problem when no one on this super advanced space farting armada could do so
Ah fuck off!
>>83904599
>Le Collectionneur (Wake spin-off)
About Yennisei's pops (the lanky alien)?
>>83950520
It seems to me that humanity has been set up to be the bad guys since they've been painted that way at least twice now.
>>83953348
That would be lame since many of the aliens in Wake haven't been good themselves.
>>83953459
That's probably why humans made the p-bomb in the first place.
They kept encountering space dicks.
>>83953628
We are the space dicks.
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>>83954008
More specifically, the white stripe tattooed caste that Navis belongs to are the Dick-ist of all.
Has anybody considered ripping art from this comic to make mods for Stellaris?
I wanna play as the Oragami space Pandas.
>>83954186
It looks more like an example of poor communication kills to me.
From the human perspective, they were surrounded by a bunch of ships who were making no attempt to hail them, nor were they receiving hails.
Human tech and psi tech are wholly incompatible without a lot of modifications in the comic.
>>83902420
>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/k7t1d6khh0424/Wake
I haven't visited /co/ for months because I was waiting for this. Ouash a best.
>>83954916
I agree the point in this panel was the poor communication skills.
But the humans shoot first instead of a non-confrontation solution
They also keep fighting even when they lose the ship.
>>83955392
A cornered animal fights the fiercest.
