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Young-Mi's Family has come to visit. She is going to do her best to be a good host while they are here. Also, we all know who the fav sister is, right?

We have not seem most of them in a very long time. You can revisit and see them in Issue 2.

A couple details on this one.

I had to rewrite Steph's dialogue a couple times. She's not a broken English stereotype, but her vocabulary ...

April 2025 Cover

Covers are done for every individual issue of Open Trade. So I figure I would make monthly ones until we wrap up this section of the story. One of these will be chosen for issue 11.

April Announcements

I wanted to take a moment to announce a couple things I've been working on.

Website

To start off with, there is now an external website at https://roseleafcomics.com/

I wanted to make an offsite repository for all the content from the Patreon to make it easier to new and existing members to access older material. You can sign in on the site with your Patreon information and have the same ...

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It's been a little bit since we checked in on Stephanie. She still seems to be in South Korea.

Poll : What Comes Next? (Repost)

EDIT: I forgot to make the poll mult choice

As I check the schedule, I see that our Character Creator will be ending at the same time as Open Trade. So we need some new stories to explore!

I would love your feedback. Check out the poll, vote for as many as you like.
There are some descriptions and details below.

Just a warning, I hope that the following are not real titles for the comics, I just need something to make the idea quick and identifiable.

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Part 2 of Victory's conversation with Stephanie's Mom.

Future of Open Trade

So, I've been working on what the future of the story and made come choices as far as where things are going. I wanted to set some expectations with you.

TL:DR

• The Main Arc of Open Trade will be coming to a conclusion in July 2025.

• New Open Trade short stories will start after that point.

THE DETAILS

Basically I've been looking at the story as well as your desires and what you want to see happen ...

Poll : What Trades Should Steph Keep?

I know a while ago, I asked what trades should she revert. I felt it was equally important to ask what trades do you wish she keeps. I can't promise all of them will stay, she does need to return some of them for the plot. But who knows, aspects could linger.

Below is a list of all of Stephanie's Active Trades. You may select as many, or as few, as you desire.

If you are reading these and feel like some haven't come in a while. Yeah....you're not wrong.
I try...

Open Trade - 286

Victory sits down with a chat with Stephanie's mom. I'm sure it is going to go well.

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NOTE: Artwork has been updated with Victory's tats.

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Lexi gets home from work to let her hair down and talk with the girls. And look, Isabelle is still alive!.

Open Trade Digest : 272-277

Young-Mi gets to work at her temp job as a host before the other shoe drops. Lexi has a bit of an awakening on how her and her siblings have been treated.

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A month later and Lexi is on the job and working as a secretary. She seems to be doing good whether or not she actually likes the job.

Character Creation - 04

It begins.

This is my partner's fav part of a RPG, spending an hour+ dialing every aspect of her character.

The Fern Stays the Forest | One-Shot

Seems like the name Forest made up on the spot had gotten back to her friend from Brit, and he's not going to let it go.

Seems like the name Forrest made up on the spot had gotten back to her friend from Brit, and he's not going to let it go.

Character Creator - 03

Chloe gets sometime to site down and play her game. I'm sure all these notifications popping up are not remotely important. Let's just get to the game!

Character Creator - 02

We settle in a bit with some home life before the wackiness begins.

With the way the month lands, we'll be back with 2 more pages next week diving deeper before switching back to Open Trade.

Hourly Comics Day 2025

Every year on the Feb 1st, there is Hourly Comics Day. The goal is to draw a comic every hour about what happened in the previous hour. Some people do an amazing job with these. Really using the space to experiment and make something special.

I tend to avoid doing the project. Normally because my hour to hour life isn't that exciting. Or the day lands in the middle of the week and I'm sitting in one spot at work for 8 hours. With it landing on the weekend, I thought I would have more...

Character Creator - 01

It's time for a new story! We are starting off with some guy playing videos games. People love watching other people play games, right?

There are nanobots! Are we in the same setting as Open Trade? Maybe some years later after Steph and Lexi's story? Maybe.

Open Trade - 283

Checking up with Lexi a couple months after her channel getting shut down and without Steph there to contribute to the rent.

Victory isn't a bitch, she is helping a little when she stays, but is not there all the time.

Pin Up : Open Trade #5 Cover

All our past covers are now complete for Open Trade!

It was fun to revisit and make these and hopefully make the past comic easier to read. New covers will come for future issues. And there will be more fun pin ups and covers to come.

What would you like to see?

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Filming is done and Jennifer is burning up inside for multiple reasons.

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EDIT: Sometimes with the production schedule things can get rushed and overlooked. I made a couple small but important errors on this page, and I wanted to re-upload it and ping you so you know.

In detail what changed was :

• "Month Three" Box has been added

• "Ju-Jun" was corrected to "Yu-Jun"

Thank you for your patience!

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So, what is the lady that traded with Young-mi doi...

A Fern in the Forest : Who Are You?

The pool last week was pretty definitive. So we will be introducing a monthly One-Shot in place of Captioned Images. But you may notice, this isn't being called a One-Shot this time. It has a name! I've known the name for a couple months, but I wanted to get this comic out before saying the name.

Forest was asked to the spell and go out on a date with Graham to make Brit jealous. How did Brit feel about that? 

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A month passes, a new month begins and Young-mi is still stuck in South Korea.

Open Trade - 279

One week into Young-Mi's extended stay and already needing to lose something in the process.

About her cake, that isn't like a South Korean tradition or anything. There are a wide range of cakes people use to celebrate birthdays, like in the US, and other places. While searching to confirm things, I ran across an image of someone stacking choco pies (moon pies for US people) and putting candles on it. I liked that for a more thing friends and younger people would do, and it looked more ...

Poll: One-Shots vs. New Story

This is something I've been debating about. I had decided, but a technical glitch made me revisit the idea. For the last week of the month, I've been posting a segment of an ongoing comic for the last two years. (Dress to Thrill and Final Exam). I'm getting ready to start the next story, but the question is do you want a dedicated story, or would you rather have a series of one-shots and comic strips.

What's the difference?

New Serialized Comic Series

You would get two pag...

Poll - Lexi's Career

Lexi had ambitions to be a game developer, she went into streaming a stepping stone, and maybe had a little too much fun to move forward. Now with the channeled pulled from the internet, she's struggling to get work in a collapsing industry.

Previous poll, we decided that Lexi was going to get a new set of job/career skills from a long promised trade that we haven't gotten to yet. But now that she is in desperate need for work, what will job skills will she take for short term gain.

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We return to Stephanie as she decides how she wants to handle the missing girl who has her cultural knowledge.

Open Trade Digest : 266-271

Victory, Lexi and her friends have a discussion about what is going on with the trades and a new hiccup on Stephanie returning back to her former self. Meanwhile the wedding for Mina's cousin is here!

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One-Shot : Sleepless

NOTE: We are having some technical difficulties. The pages for the new comic scheduled to start this week are not uploaded properly to Patreon.

It does seem to be an issue on Patreon's side and I'm just waiting for it to be resolved. In the meantime, I loaded this comic a while ago, and so enjoy a second One-Shot for this month.

Discuss what you would like to see here in the comments.
We are at a crossroads and there are options.

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