Awesome as ever :D

i got my preorder hard back edition. Cant wait to get it> its signed too <3333

Ouch!
But great work :)

awesome!

And i've already paid for my pre-order copy! :D gonna pick it up at FC! :P

Oh that's hurts. I do know.

I can't wait to read that book. D:

You'd think that animals with tusks would be required to file them down or cap them or something for contact sports.

If you read the previous book it explained that if you have them you can use them, its part of the "uniform"

Actually, one of the deer players was sanctioned for not having his antlers properly capped and stabbing one of the other players in the shoulder. Stabbed player was incapacitated, and I don't remember the full punishment for the deer, but Kyell does realize you can't have frigging sharp stabby points unchecked in a Full Contact sport, and thus wrote about measures taken. :|

I'd assume the convention of gameplay is the same as in hockey: if your enforcer picks a fight on my best player, I'll put my enforcer on your best player. Similarly, if your guy with sharp antlers stabs my starting QB, I'll sic my guy with sharp tusks on yours. In a sense, it becomes a players-enforced league with unwritten rules.

Sounds like normal sports in general lol, or in taking football as an example, look at the o line and d lines. Biggest against biggest :P

I imagine in the case of tusks, it's awkward to cap them without affecting the facemask and that anybody using a part of their snout against another player is either going to get what they deserve (given where those things connect to the face), doing it intentionally, or both.

Is that what it was in the book?

I'll admit I have not read the books. I guess it just strikes me as an obvious, unfair advantage. Make a whole team of warthogs/boars in the professional leagues and voila, you have a team that totally bodily fucks up any team you're up against. It's not like a tiger who can choose to keep his claws retracted.

That's why you have free agents.

Could you enlighten me on what you mean by "free agent"? I know the rules of the game, but beyond that, the terminology escapes me.

On having a whole team of boars fucking up another team--eventually I think you'd run out of decent players as your whole team is benched for violent play. ;]

As I recall from reading the first book, teams will sometimes draft players based on species, either something large and brutish or something fast, like a cheetah, fox or coyote.
If you consider an attack on the field might be deliberate...well, then there's nothing stopping a tiger using his claws on another player or a wolf sinking in his teeth. I suspect something like a boar would know the direction it's tusks were headed.

Just my two cents! :]

True true. It just struck me as something I'd never really considered until I saw this picture.

there's a reason NHL teams don't use all goons...

Well, I mean in real life, you have fast people and big people and small people and slow people, etc., but you don't have "people with spikes sticking out of their face and helmet." I suppose a team full of Cheetahs would completely wreck a team full of boars, because the boars would never be able to tackle anyone, or a team full of monkeys that could pass the ball without flaw to the endzone, but it does strike me a very real concern that if you are a boar (or to go an extreme, an elephant), the likelihood of you brutally maiming an opposing player during a standard maneuver is exponentially higher.

Likewise, there would be penalties for someone grabbing an opponent's jersey and flinging them, or jamming your hand through their helmet and gouging their eyes, so I guess the way to solve the problem of, "Your team has big, sharp tusks," would be to penalize anyone who causes damage with said tusks.

My initial reaction as well.

Owwwwww >.<!
Great illustration :D love your art as always ^^ can't wait to read the book :3!

Damnnnnnnn ^_^

Curiously, the fingers here are much more pronounced, a noticable change from the immense pawpad-esque fingers that you used to do. I also find it interesting that the ear holes are still in the side of the head versus the top where most ears seem to reside. Just an observation!

It's a shame that the interiors are grayscale. A color version of the hardcover would be amazing.

I pre-ordered one already!

I still love this one. Terrific job, as always, and the blood really jumps out in the color version. Great expressions, and the Millenport logo is terrific too. :D

Wish I had the money to get this, but as it is, I'm saving for a commission for a friend of mine. Another time perhaps :)

Why are all three characters wearing different jersey designs? (I haven't read the previous book, so I don't know anything about this particular sport, but the uniform designs look like football. Maybe this is the WFL?)

It's football. But look again; you're only clearly seeing the jersey on the bear and the tiger. He's coming up from behind the tiger's legs, so all you can really see is the helmet (which matches the bear's helmet).

OH! OK, now it makes sense. I thought the orange part was the boar's shoulders, like he was lunging or falling forwards in front of the tiger (it kinda looks like shoulder pads). The "arm" makes more sense now too.

Welcome to the big leagues rookie.

i love the blood effect <3

so awesome.

Are you going to sell the colored images in a special promotion or something?

I don't think there's any official plans for the colored ones. Personally, I'll just be selling the originals and some color prints of a few illustrations. :]

yay sangre!

Poor Fella

man I see fowl play. Personally have seen a boar tusk wound, so lets say that tiger is lucky.

You know, Ive always wondered how furry sports would work. Like swimming for instance, it would be unfair for a swim team to have say 5 otter team members and one wolf VS say four wolves and two otters. The one with more aquatic furs would win hands down. Not expecting an answer lol just saying

All that carnage, and he's not even carrying the football.

That's the first thing I noticed--that there was no football in the scene, which seems odd. Given the tiger isn't even a ball carrier, there should be 2 yellow flags flying into the picture. One for Holding, and the other for Personal Foul: Unnecessary roughness

Owwww D:

Blotch, I don't know how you do but you put alot of emphasis in the art you do, you make it feel real, like they are real you give them all the correct emotions as a real human being just, Bravo, Blotch, Bravo.

And please don't tell me his artery was cut, because it looks like it did.

i cant wait. i really want to see how dev's parents react to him coming out!

I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait for the second book!!

bloooods

If only most games were this awesome.

So, dev's jersey number... in one of the pics it reads as 57, in this one 75.

Just curious: backwards pic or deliberate?

Either way, awesome art as usual. :)

Animal football. I thought the Cortland Finnegan- Andre Johnson fight last Sunday was bad. Now imagine if they had the ability to flense each other with sharp claws.

The hardbound edition would only be worth it if Sofawolf employed a typesetter.
It's a shame the interior illustrations are all grayscale at print, this is brilliant.

You could always print color-versions of the inserts and include them in a "Special Edition" package along with the hardbound edition? Charge a little extra to make up for what it costs to print hardback and you still get to put the colored versions out on the market.

Not my department! I just make the art, and they pay me in beer and husky fluff. ;]
But you can always suggest that to the fellows at Sofawolf Press.

Will do!

With all that fluff, you could make an AMAAAAZING sweater!

looks really great
poor dev seems really in pain, i really can't wait to receive and read my hardcover edition )

Wooo football! what a sport. How the swine bleeding? he's the one that has tusks XP

Ouch.

Wow already sold out again, that's a shame. Great job on the photos Blotch, as always.

Magnificent!

ouch

In all honesty, I think you guys keep getting better.

And also, OW.

Maybe you can put the color versions on bookmarks and sell those separately.

Damn, that's GOTTA hurt! >.< *tail tucks*

Furries playing sports = LUL

Hmmn I see, a game of handegg

aw man, get um Miski!

Yikes. That boar should have those things layered in dense foam before he plays... Love the motion of the blood.

This is epic! I lived this, got cliped in the arm by a face mask riped my arm right open :p

DAYUM!!

You can really see the pain in Fisher's face, not to mention the blood standing out on this coloured version.