This is the first version of Twisted Existence that I drew when I was just a wee lass. It's not Shakespeare, it doesn't even pass for so-bad-it's-good, but it was good practice. For some reason I didn't put in speech bubbles, and I mis-placed this comic's script (I probably burned it.) But the plot's pretty simple to follow anyways.

 

Ah, the first page of Twisted Existence ever, drawn when I was 14. What awesome backgrounds. It seems I got bored partway through shading her skirt. She's supposed to be in a museum with paintings on the walls.

I re-drew the picture of Jake's face in the top right frame so many times I nearly erased through the paper. Seems I did the same thing with his feet.

He asks her if she wants to walk around the museum with him. She's happy about that... but THEN Maria's twin sister shows up...
Cherry's right arm is 25% longer than her left.

Cheery Cherry comes, Maria is forgotten, she flashbacks about telling Cherry she likes Jake. *shivers* it's so corny! Like some of the worse shoujo manga!

Yup, then Cherry takes Jake for herself. LOVE that background, and that 1960s tv! And the door that opens from nowhere!

Maria comes out of her flashback stupor and realizes she has to catch up with the rest of her class. But something calls her back! Again, wtf is with that background?

Le GASPE! The marble fell out!I love that sharkfin hairstyle.

Guess she took too long staring at the marble and the teacher got fed up with waiting for her. I don't think teachers actually wear bowties like that. I hope not.

Cherry's bored so she leaves the hotel she's sharing with Maria to go meet friends/boyfriend. Ok, here I'm finally starting to understand drawing a bit. The door looks like a door and Cherry and Maria have (somewhat) decent body anatomy going for them.

She's yelling at the marble about how crappy her life is. Why is the marble under the bed? Why did she take it with her? Why is she not wondering why the marble's moving around of its own free will?

Insert flashy special effects I was too lazy to draw. The marble looks like an egg in the top left frame.

AUUUUGGGGHHHH! BADLY DRAWN ANIME EYEBALLS!

That's right, the male protagonist, Tao, was originally a marble... In this page you see I'm starting to understand anatomy a bit more, and their bodies are in almost natural poses.

Oh, ow, that's a bad title page.

Some mysterious flashback about a plot point that was cut from the story. I was pretty proud of this page back in the day. I actually looked at curtains to see how they flowed. I whinged it on the fireplace.

Yeah, foreshadowing plot points inserted by dream scenarios. Now I slap myself every time I consider it. No! Bad! Cheap out on plotting! Hm, her hand isn't drawn half bad.

So she hid the mysterious marble boy under her bed. What else to say?

"Crap! It wasn't a horrible nightmare!" Begin flashback of mysterious boy introducing himself and Maria going into shock! I was reading too much shoujo at the time and decided to try drawing shoujo feathers. They look like tops of wheat.

So when a strange boy boy shows up in your room, ATTACK HIM WITH A TV! I don't think this is even possible.Most hotels under 4 stars nail their television sets to the dresser.

Little Maria victory dance. She really should be taking this moment to, like, flee, or call the police.

He's all right, folk!

He's just about to explain himself when Cherry comes back! She wasn't gone long, not even for a quickie.

Aw, isn't that nice? He's putting back the t.v. she just tried to beat him to death with!

"What are you doing?" "Hiding you" "What? I don't wanna be shoved in some cramped place again!" "Go hide!" "No!" "I said... *erhrm* GO HIDE!" "Yes, ma'am." Maria's anatomy, some of the best yet. Tao's reduced to a stickman.

Cherry's wondering what all the noise was. Maria says t.v. Cherry wonders why, then, the t.v.'s on the floor. Again, why didn't Maria call the police?

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