Big thanks to everyone who tuned into Babayka-Lives last weekend for its return. I have to confess, I was a little worried readers wouldn’t come back after the summer break, but I was very glad to see that wasn’t the case at all. Both Saturday and Sunday saw people tuning in to watch Blake cross that threshold, and I’m very grateful to all those that did. I hope you all enjoy what’s coming your way this Autumn.
I can’t believe it’s almost time for another update all ready. Just two days left until you find out who or what is calling to Blake from the darkness. FYI, If you’ve got a sinister feeling something nasty’s gonna happen in this weekend’s episode (SPOILER ALERT…) You’re right.
Thursday, 27 August 2015
Saturday, 22 August 2015
The Last Bachelor Standing.
So this is it, folks. It’s finally the 22nd of August and the summer break is over. If you head over to Babayka-Lives right now, you’ll see the long awaited Page-88 waiting for you. It’s officially the beginning of the end of Book one, and it starts today. Hope readers enjoy the coming chaos this autumn.
As anyone who’s been keeping a beady eye on my deviantart page this week can tell you, I posted a pin-up surprise on there a couple of days ago to get readers in the mood for more Babayka action this weekend. I made a throwaway gag on this very blog earlier in the summer about making a Yana action figure, and the idea tickled me so much, I decided to draw it for fun. Complete with tiny Bladder and Foot-pump accessories, this was pretty much what I saw in my head when I made that joke. If my model making skills were better, I might of actually had a go at making a real Yana toy, but instead I thought I’d just play to my strengths and draw it inside. I think it looks pretty cool. I’m not sure if the world’s ready for a Yana action figure just yet, but no comic book character is truly complete until he\she has been immortalize in plastic.
While sadly a Yana action figure is still only a pipedream right now, you can pick up a print of my Yana toy artwork over on Deviantart. Any and all money raised goes towards keeping Babayka-Lives running and really does help this web-series.
Sunday, 16 August 2015
Yana Says…
Yep, it’s officially just under a week now until Babayka-Lives returns on the 22nd. Tune in next Saturday for the beginning of the end, as it were. The wait is nearly over, folks. Come see how book one ends and meet Babayka.
I’d love to get as many people as possible checking out Babayka-Lives when it comes back next weekend, so if you’ve been enjoying the previous 87-pages of Brides Of Babayka, and you want to help the web-comic out, there’s one very simple thing readers can do. Just give Babayka-Lives a quick shout out online, and let people know it’s a web-comic you’ve been reading and enjoying. Just a quick review (even a sentence or two will do) and a link to www.babayka-lives.com would be a massive help (and may put you on the radar of other Babayka-Lives readers, too.) Show some love for this web-series by giving it a shout out on your Blog, Twitter feed, Facebook page or however you put yourself out there online. Just a few kind words and a link would help big time, and probably take seconds to do. You can even re-blog\re-post your favourite page, scene or pin-up from Babayka-Lives (just be sure to include a link back to the web-comic, though.) Basically, any shout out would be great and most welcome.
I may have a treat for readers (if I can get the timing right) over on my deviantart page at some point this week before Babayka-Lives returns this Saturday. So keep an eye on my page over the next seven days and you may get a surprise. I’m also currently trying to put together the pieces of my 2015 Halloween Ecard at the moment. I notices Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, which is cool, as it means I can upload a Babayka-Lives page on the big day itself.
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
A Hefty Recap.
With Brides Of Babayka both returning and concluding in a couple of weekends, before then, readers may wanna take some time to get up-to-date on the story so far for when it returns later this month. The best way to catch up on the previous 87-pages is either over on the main site at Babayka-Lives, or on Tapastic. But for those who don’t have time to reread what’s gone before, I’ve updated my previous lengthy recap from earlier in the year (after the first incarnation of Babayka-Lives was hacked, and had to be rebuilt from scratch back in January.) So enjoy, and get ready to re-enter the terrifying world of Babayka.
Previously on Brides Of Babayka…
Chapter One: A small group of six English men are met at a Russian airport by a mysterious and beautiful young girl named Yana. The men are four bachelors and two company chaperones visiting Russia for the weekend in search of potential Russian Brides. Yana herself claims to be working for a small Russian business called ‘Brides Of Babayka.’ Taken deep into the wilderness, they find themselves arriving at a large secluded house, tucked away at the bottom of a hillside quarry. The men are shown to their rooms and told they will be guests at a party later that night where they will be introduces to the girls, and that the hotel only has one other guest who resides in the room at the end of the hall. While preparing for that night, one bachelor (Kevin Moon) finds a human tooth on the floor of his bathroom after retrieving a dropped razor blade. The party starts, and one of the bachelors called Ben Plug introduces himself to a pretty blonde girl named Alina, who he has been corresponding with over the internet. While another one of the bachelors (a very young, good looking man called Julian Webb), appears to be a big hit with the ladies. Later that night during the party, the forth bachelor (an elderly man named Colin Mack) is suddenly taken ill after accepting a drink earlier from Yana. Senior company chaperone (Barry Conner) instructs the younger chaperone (Ronald Blake) to take the old man to bed, but Yana quickly offers to have two of her girls handle Mr Mack for them instead. Weak and dizzy, the old man is led upstairs by two of the girls (Vera and Zoya), but is not taken back to his room, but rather the room at the end of the hall where their mystery guest resides. Once locked inside, the old man is set upon by something sinister hiding in the shadows.
Chapter Two: The morning after the big party finds Ben waking up next to Alina after spending the night together. The bachelors are meant to be going on a hike and picnic with the girls, but Ben quickly blows off the offer to spend the day with Alina. Blake tries to check on Mr Mack to see if he’s feeling better after falling ill the previous night, but is intercepted by Yana, who says she has just spoken with the old man, and he’d rather stay behind and sleep in and join them later. The girls and bachelors set out for their picnic, and much to the annoyance of Kevin Moon, the girls are again swooning and ganging around the young Julian Webb. The group treks through a broken landscape of deserted homes and abandoned farm land until they find a clearing to have their picnic. Back at the hotel, Ben and Alina decide to get up and get some breakfast. While heading downstairs, Ben informs Alina that he has already booked a room at his favourite Sci-Fi TV show themed convention, which they could use, if she accept his marriage proposal. Rather then answer him, though, Alina shouts out to a figure standing behind Ben in the dark. Zoya, clad in a plastic bodysuit, emerges and violently strikes and kills a shocked Ben Plug with a sledgehammer. Meanwhile back at the picnic, a rainstorm breaks out, forcing everyone to start fleeing back to the hotel, as Alina and Zoya take Ben’s body into the room at the end of the hall, and try and clean up the kill scene. The group returns to the hotel all wet, and Yana suggest they get dried off, and get ready for the Bachelors leaving party that night. On his way back to his room, Kevin Moon again finds a human tooth (this one having belonged to Ben Plug), but Moon is unaware he is being watched by Yana and Vera as he studies it.
Chapter Three: The leaving party is in full swing, and again Julian is centre of attention amongst the ladies, and openingly mocking Kevin to the amusement of the young girls. Blake meanwhile tries to check on Colin, but finds his door locked and can get no answer from inside. While leaving the party briefly to use the urinal, Julian in the meantime is ambushed by Kevin Moon in the bathroom. Intent on beating Julian up for stealing the limelight and mocking him, Kevin is left furious when Julian quickly talks his way out of any walloping with the threat of legal action, and Moon storms out the toilet in a foul mood, his bloodlust unabated. Leaving the party, Kevin finds Alina creeping about upstairs and decides to take his anger out on her, after it transpires that Alina had ignored Kevin’s attempts to engage with her over the internet before this visit. Kevin’s attack is short lived though, as he is knocked out from behind by Yana with a glass bottle. Yana instructs that Moon be taken to her room, and that they also “fetch the bladder.” Back at the bar, Blake approaches Conner and insists he helps him try and get an answer out of Colin. Begrudgingly Conner agrees, leaving Blake to supervise a now Bachelorless party. Up in Yana’s room, Moon starts to wake. While he was passed out, the girls have tied him to a chair sitting in the middle of a large sheet of plastic wrap. Yana berates Moon over his un-gentlemanly conduct, before using a knitting-needle to force a leather bladder up inside Moon’s head through his right nostril. Any pleading from Moon is ignored, as a foot pump is used to inflate the bladder, crushing Moon’s brain against the inside of his skull and killing him. Yana instructs that the girls wait a couple of hours, before cutting up and moving the body to the room at the end of the hall. Elsewhere in the hotel, Julian is caught by Zoya exiting the hotel’s kitchen, but she is quickly pushed aside, as Julian flees back to his bedroom, still shaken and angry after his encounter with Kevin earlier in the night in the Mens’ toilet. Upon returning to his room, he is shocked to discover Vera inside, going through his belongings. When she confronts him with evidence to suggest he may not really be being truthful with them about his reasons for being in Russia looking for a Bride, Julian loses his cool, and produces a knife he has just stolen from the kitchen to protect himself from Kevin Moon, and proceeds to wildly threaten Vera with it.
Chapter Four: Vera escapes by clawing at Julian’s face, but he gives chase, and runs after her into the hallway. Meanwhile back in the bar, Yana approaches a lone Blake, and offers him a drink, much like she had the night before with Colin. Vera hurries into the sister room at the end of the hall, with Julian not far behind. Thinking she has run into a dead end, Julian approaches, when suddenly from behind he is attacked by some unseen figure, who kills him by thrusting his giant hand through his chest, much to Vera’s amusement. Blake lays motionless on the barroom floor, after passing out from whatever Yana spiked his drink with. The other Brides are instructed to take Blake upstairs. Sometime later, Blake awakes, minus his glasses and tie in his own room. Unsure what has happened to him, he ventures out into the hotel to seek help, only to find it empty. After searching high-and-low, Blake can still not find anyone until he notices that the other mystery guest’s room door is ajar, and decides to investigate. Blake gingerly approaches the room at the end of the hall... and enters...
Find out how the story ends on Saturday the 22nd of August at Babayka-Lives.com
Previously on Brides Of Babayka…
Chapter One: A small group of six English men are met at a Russian airport by a mysterious and beautiful young girl named Yana. The men are four bachelors and two company chaperones visiting Russia for the weekend in search of potential Russian Brides. Yana herself claims to be working for a small Russian business called ‘Brides Of Babayka.’ Taken deep into the wilderness, they find themselves arriving at a large secluded house, tucked away at the bottom of a hillside quarry. The men are shown to their rooms and told they will be guests at a party later that night where they will be introduces to the girls, and that the hotel only has one other guest who resides in the room at the end of the hall. While preparing for that night, one bachelor (Kevin Moon) finds a human tooth on the floor of his bathroom after retrieving a dropped razor blade. The party starts, and one of the bachelors called Ben Plug introduces himself to a pretty blonde girl named Alina, who he has been corresponding with over the internet. While another one of the bachelors (a very young, good looking man called Julian Webb), appears to be a big hit with the ladies. Later that night during the party, the forth bachelor (an elderly man named Colin Mack) is suddenly taken ill after accepting a drink earlier from Yana. Senior company chaperone (Barry Conner) instructs the younger chaperone (Ronald Blake) to take the old man to bed, but Yana quickly offers to have two of her girls handle Mr Mack for them instead. Weak and dizzy, the old man is led upstairs by two of the girls (Vera and Zoya), but is not taken back to his room, but rather the room at the end of the hall where their mystery guest resides. Once locked inside, the old man is set upon by something sinister hiding in the shadows.
Chapter Two: The morning after the big party finds Ben waking up next to Alina after spending the night together. The bachelors are meant to be going on a hike and picnic with the girls, but Ben quickly blows off the offer to spend the day with Alina. Blake tries to check on Mr Mack to see if he’s feeling better after falling ill the previous night, but is intercepted by Yana, who says she has just spoken with the old man, and he’d rather stay behind and sleep in and join them later. The girls and bachelors set out for their picnic, and much to the annoyance of Kevin Moon, the girls are again swooning and ganging around the young Julian Webb. The group treks through a broken landscape of deserted homes and abandoned farm land until they find a clearing to have their picnic. Back at the hotel, Ben and Alina decide to get up and get some breakfast. While heading downstairs, Ben informs Alina that he has already booked a room at his favourite Sci-Fi TV show themed convention, which they could use, if she accept his marriage proposal. Rather then answer him, though, Alina shouts out to a figure standing behind Ben in the dark. Zoya, clad in a plastic bodysuit, emerges and violently strikes and kills a shocked Ben Plug with a sledgehammer. Meanwhile back at the picnic, a rainstorm breaks out, forcing everyone to start fleeing back to the hotel, as Alina and Zoya take Ben’s body into the room at the end of the hall, and try and clean up the kill scene. The group returns to the hotel all wet, and Yana suggest they get dried off, and get ready for the Bachelors leaving party that night. On his way back to his room, Kevin Moon again finds a human tooth (this one having belonged to Ben Plug), but Moon is unaware he is being watched by Yana and Vera as he studies it.
Chapter Three: The leaving party is in full swing, and again Julian is centre of attention amongst the ladies, and openingly mocking Kevin to the amusement of the young girls. Blake meanwhile tries to check on Colin, but finds his door locked and can get no answer from inside. While leaving the party briefly to use the urinal, Julian in the meantime is ambushed by Kevin Moon in the bathroom. Intent on beating Julian up for stealing the limelight and mocking him, Kevin is left furious when Julian quickly talks his way out of any walloping with the threat of legal action, and Moon storms out the toilet in a foul mood, his bloodlust unabated. Leaving the party, Kevin finds Alina creeping about upstairs and decides to take his anger out on her, after it transpires that Alina had ignored Kevin’s attempts to engage with her over the internet before this visit. Kevin’s attack is short lived though, as he is knocked out from behind by Yana with a glass bottle. Yana instructs that Moon be taken to her room, and that they also “fetch the bladder.” Back at the bar, Blake approaches Conner and insists he helps him try and get an answer out of Colin. Begrudgingly Conner agrees, leaving Blake to supervise a now Bachelorless party. Up in Yana’s room, Moon starts to wake. While he was passed out, the girls have tied him to a chair sitting in the middle of a large sheet of plastic wrap. Yana berates Moon over his un-gentlemanly conduct, before using a knitting-needle to force a leather bladder up inside Moon’s head through his right nostril. Any pleading from Moon is ignored, as a foot pump is used to inflate the bladder, crushing Moon’s brain against the inside of his skull and killing him. Yana instructs that the girls wait a couple of hours, before cutting up and moving the body to the room at the end of the hall. Elsewhere in the hotel, Julian is caught by Zoya exiting the hotel’s kitchen, but she is quickly pushed aside, as Julian flees back to his bedroom, still shaken and angry after his encounter with Kevin earlier in the night in the Mens’ toilet. Upon returning to his room, he is shocked to discover Vera inside, going through his belongings. When she confronts him with evidence to suggest he may not really be being truthful with them about his reasons for being in Russia looking for a Bride, Julian loses his cool, and produces a knife he has just stolen from the kitchen to protect himself from Kevin Moon, and proceeds to wildly threaten Vera with it.
Chapter Four: Vera escapes by clawing at Julian’s face, but he gives chase, and runs after her into the hallway. Meanwhile back in the bar, Yana approaches a lone Blake, and offers him a drink, much like she had the night before with Colin. Vera hurries into the sister room at the end of the hall, with Julian not far behind. Thinking she has run into a dead end, Julian approaches, when suddenly from behind he is attacked by some unseen figure, who kills him by thrusting his giant hand through his chest, much to Vera’s amusement. Blake lays motionless on the barroom floor, after passing out from whatever Yana spiked his drink with. The other Brides are instructed to take Blake upstairs. Sometime later, Blake awakes, minus his glasses and tie in his own room. Unsure what has happened to him, he ventures out into the hotel to seek help, only to find it empty. After searching high-and-low, Blake can still not find anyone until he notices that the other mystery guest’s room door is ajar, and decides to investigate. Blake gingerly approaches the room at the end of the hall... and enters...
Find out how the story ends on Saturday the 22nd of August at Babayka-Lives.com
Friday, 31 July 2015
My Weekend.
I can pretty much sum up my plans for this weekend in one photo.
I’ve heard a lot of people call Cold Fear a Resident Evil 4 rip off. But considering Resident Evil 4 is my favourite game of all time, somehow playing an imitator of it strangely appeals to me. As you’ve probably no doubt guess by now from reading Babayka-Lives, I’m a big fan of survival horror, so I’m very much looking forward to this game (I’m also very much looking forward to the white, chocolate buttons, too.)
By-the-by, it’s officially less than a month now until Babayka-Lives returns. Something else I need to do very soon-ish is update the Brides Of Babayka recap from earlier in the year, to give return readers a chance for a quick catch up before the story gets going again on the 22nd next month.
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Summertime In Hastings.
Sub-headline: Boo clouds.
There’s something ironic about living in a seaside town that doesn’t get much sun. It’s like the God of clouds is punishing us\me or something. I live about a 5-minute walk away from the local park, and about a 15-minute walk away from the beach, it’s the middle of summer, and I can’t enjoy either right now. It’s very frustrating. At least it’ll give me a chance to stay indoors and do some much needed inking, I guess, but I’d like to think we’ve got a few more sunny days to come yet this summer.
Here’s how things look out my window as I write this blog.
And here’s how that makes me feel.
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Nothing To See Here.
Just a quick post today to say if you’re subscriber of Babayka-Lives and you got a message today to say there’d been an update… just ignore it. One of my many tasks this summer (because I can assure you, just because the web-comics on a break, doesn’t mean I am), is to try and sort out and get early pages from Babayka: Book 2 ready to be posted when Brides Of Babayka concludes later in the year. So yes, today I did do a test run and post the first page of Book 2 to make sure it looked ok (you only have to look at the less-than-perfect quality of the current Summer break image that I did a little too quickly for its own good, to see if it’s not done right, you get resolution problems), thankfully, it looked great.
I doubt anyone did snag a copy of Page 1 from Book 2 while it was briefly posted, but if by some jammy chance you have, please keep it to yourself. There no real danger if by some chance it did leak onto the internet, as it has no spoilers to the end of Brides Of Babayka, or any other real spoilers, anyhow, but I’d be grateful if any AWOL copies could be kept offline.
Hope everyone’s excited about Brides Of Babayka returning next month? Not much longer to wait now until we find out who-or-what resides in the room at the end of the hall, and what will become of poor Blake, the last bachelor standing.
I doubt anyone did snag a copy of Page 1 from Book 2 while it was briefly posted, but if by some jammy chance you have, please keep it to yourself. There no real danger if by some chance it did leak onto the internet, as it has no spoilers to the end of Brides Of Babayka, or any other real spoilers, anyhow, but I’d be grateful if any AWOL copies could be kept offline.
Hope everyone’s excited about Brides Of Babayka returning next month? Not much longer to wait now until we find out who-or-what resides in the room at the end of the hall, and what will become of poor Blake, the last bachelor standing.
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