The Newsblade ~ Choplet Chopped

[4 new Swords episodes]

Well, it's certainly been a colourful week! Switchhog stonks are way up!
The community have cycled through the 5 stages of grief for Choplet multiple times in the last 3 days with a lot of people landing on bargaining and offering to up their Patreon pledge for his safe return.

That obviously works out great for me, as I've recently laid out my commitment to taking this brand and doing more with it, which needs your help.

The Quest Sprout Hoodie got an extension and is available for 5 more days! If you'd love to own one, please don't wait until the last day - I'll be ordering some to help get it across the line, but if I know how close to the finish line we are sooner, I can make a clearer plan and get some of my favourite hobby retailers to stock a few. I don't have $9000 just lying around, or the space at home for 150 hoodies...

I have been accused of murking Choplet out of spite for this hoodie not being funded sooner! I feel like I should remind everyone that I am always being accused of playing it safe with Quest Sprout and that Choplet and his friends are in for a different set of challenges more akin to the rest of the Swords Universe. Also, we are 911 episodes into the series and I planned to have most of the story points wrapped by 1000, so... don't get too attached to everyone else either... >: )

As I knew would be the case, a couple of people insist that Switchhog will just have any tool for any job and that makes him broken, but I am stating plainly for the record here that he has 7 blades, which was confirmed in the alt-text of the latest comic and I've already decided on 6 of them.
Confirmed blades : Hogedge / Pass-Sword / ??? / ??? / ??? / ??? / ???
You should ALWAYS leave some things undecided in case there's a good joke later!

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In response to last week's poll, I've been doing some updates without sending email pings, in order to keep your poor inboxes decluttered, so I will summarise them here:
Choplet Theatre
A list of all the Cut the Deck Guest Artists with links
(There are also some 4k wallpapers I have repeated in this Newsblade update)

I also asked the Free Patron community to vote on Choplet's fate, with 91% being in favour of his return from 169 votes (obligatory : "nice.")

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I'm just watching the Johto League of Pokemon this week and keeping up with Taskmaster UK. I'll be tuning into the new season of Rick and Morty tomorrow(?)

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I figure I should state this somewhere once in a while, so:

Swords is made using Medibang Paint Pro v 29.1 and a Surface Pro 8, by me, Matthew J Wills, here in Wellington, New Zealand. Swords began in 2018.

AI is not currently used in any part of my creative or marketing process; although I cannot vouch for its use by any of the brands I regularly communicate/collaborate with.

Brands I collaborate with include Makeship, YouTooz, Threadless, TeePublic, Webtoon, Tapas, Fables, Patreon, Ko-Fi, Kickstarter, Backerkit, Panda Game Manufacturing, Medibang Inc, Reddit, Imgur, Instagram, Squarespace, BeaDnD, Caffeinated Dragon, Valkyrie Games, Ledge Brand Agency, Vistaprint, The Big Idea, Stickerdot and more

Thank you for supporting independent comics!

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Now that I've revealed Switchhog's true rizz, what do you think the Hero Abilities of:
Choplet (Dark/Monster)
Switchhog (Fire/Monster)
Pommelbug (Water/Monster)
Duelwidow (Wind/Monster)
-would be if they were added to Cut the Deck?