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...this didn't take as long as I thought it would...perhaps because I didn't work on it as much as I wanted to. Wal-Mart job Holiday Season = BAD JUJU.

Well, onto the story...

For several months now approaching this month of December, in which the 26th would strike the day I invaded the webcomic/artist community, I thought to myself about the traditional celebratory picture I often do to celebrate TRG's creation. I mean...what's there to celebrate? How many TRG episodes have I made this year? Six? That's beyond sad. It's downright pathetic, even with all the problems, jobs, projects, and otherwise I gotta put up with. I call myself a webcomic author?

So I tried to think of it in a different light. Granted, I started with TRG four years ago. But in this day in age, five other comics accompany it, some of which share it's inactivity. Then there's the Commission Shop. The job (or lack thereof for a good half of the year). And everything in between. So it's not so much just the four year anniversary of TRG, but the four year anniversary of the day I came along with my brand of artwork, comedy, creativity, and stupidity. And with that, I tried, as much as I can't normally do, to have a positive outlook towards getting this done.

Right, onto the piece itself.

Drawing the Rogues for the past four years (or rather three of the four if you take last year's pic in consideration, which this has no hope of topping), really, what else is there to see save for a show of improvement in style, whatever there may be? Luckily for me, the thought of alternate costumes crossed my mind for a good long time now. Do I have any immediate use for them? No. But as I always say, it's better to have and not need than need and not have. And I've always wanted to do a scene of characters just chilling in the locale they're located in. This didn't come out as grand as I had hoped, but I blame that on my inability to draw backgrounds and the fact that I committed the sin of hoping to begin with. ;;

A good load of these costumes also show my inability to come up with anything creative on my own. I had to have nudges from designs other people made for me. Such is strong in the case of Kitty, Big Nasty, and although you can't see him all that well, Mr. O.M.A.

Kitty's design came with inspiration of a fanart of her I got from NumLot. It's not ENTIRELY like it, but it's enough to say I ripped him off. Nala WOULD also be the same story until I realized that the Nala I made here is nothing like the one NumLot made. Which is good, shows I'm not entirely hopeless.

Big Nasty was one I was struggling with for a good long time, mostly because I work better with females. I came up with something akin to a fanart Miss Tabby created for me of him one day. In all actuallity, what she provided was the boots. The rest I was able to come up with in the design I farted out myself, but still, she had a hand in it. All I know is that Filthy Animal is more than likely to become a Big Nasty mark for a certain reason.

Mr. O.M.A is the semi-invert seen in one of Mankey's commissions. It was badass enough to work.

There was also something I wanted to do with Sapphire that was inspired by Alpha's Sapphire Bunny pic (and no, it wasn't turning her into a rabbit), but as far away as she is with the rest of the crew up there, no one would have noticed anyway. I'm still up in the air about it anyway, so...

As far as the rest of the designs, all mine. You can tell by how they just seem like I threw them together on a whim, HA HA HA...ehhhh...urrrghh...

But yeah. It may not be as uber WOW as I wanted it to be, but what can you do? Enjoy and I'll try to make this year not suck as much a doink as the last one did.