Bonus: SILK! The Graphic Novel (Patreon)

You're probably expecting this to be, at most, two pages of sketches of what a comic book version of SILK! would look like.

Nope. It's the whole thing. (The links are below. Grab a coffee and a muffin.)

Dropking - the absolute madman - went nuts with this, even slipping in adverts and bloopers. I'm wary of AI but I love this comic because it's clear that a human being has crafted the output of the machine (and made the AI into a character) while adding tons of his own humour and creativity.

The art style is based on the Dan Dare comics, first published in 1950, so at this point in time there are at least 6 years of out-of-copyright material to use as ethical-ish inspiration. (While double-checking this just now, I learned that Dan Dare, chief pilot of the Interplanet Space Fleet, was born in Manchester and the distant future the adventures were set in... was the late 1990s.)

If you want to join the Discord and discuss this, plus Player Manager/Soccer Supremo in general, here's a link that will randomly stop working. (If you're reading this in the year 3000, feel free to DM me for an up-to-date link!)

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Voicemail from Henri to Max

The links:

SILK! Part One

SILK! Part Two

[Clicking will open a large PDF in Google Docs.]

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Enjoy!

Soccer Supremo 7 starts on Friday!

(Also, farside98 created a Football Manager 26 database so you can play as Chester in the Prem/WSL. As I'm writing this you need to ask for access which I didn't know until literally ten seconds ago, so I'm going to ask him if there's a way we can skip that part. There's a channel for football manager discussion but it's spoiler-free so we can't discuss this particular database there.)