Hey, everybody. There are two strips left. I’m working on next Monday’s strip now but it’s a complicated one. God knows what’s going to happen next Wednesday. So far, the response to my suggestion of fewer updates per week has been met with an overwhelming response: one e-mail. And it was SPAM. I feel a sudden surge of motivation!
I ordered Hellboy on DVD with it and it’s excellent. I’ve been focusing on the strips this week. However, what with overtime at work and sickness in equal measure it’s been difficult to find the time. I’ve got another eight-panel strip that’s going to be finished by the end of Monday, hopefully.
These multi-panelled strips are taking a lot out of me and the strips are still being used up at a faster rate than they’re being produced. This may spell a schedule change. Of course, it may not. If I receive an overwhelming number of e-mails asking me to keep updating at the same frequency, I might reconsider. So far there’s been nothing.
So, I leave it up to you. If you like the way things are going now, put your… uh, mouth where your browser is?
I finished off a couple of comics over the weekend. I may have time to work on some other projects next weekend but my main priority is staying ahead of the buffer.
I’ve seen Advent Children with subtitles, by the way. It all makes sense now. More or less.
I just thought I’d check that everyone is following the storyline. It’s quite complicated, now I think about it, but I’ve tried to spell things out as obviously as I can. Are you all having a good time? I’m not getting an unusually large amount of feedback about the comic but I suppose that no news is good news.
If you scroll to the bottom of this page, to the entry entitled ‘Gah!’, you’ll find a promise that the buffer of about 30 strips will be updated on time until they run out, and that we shouldn’t think about that right now. Well, now is the time to think about that. The buffer only has two weeks’ of strips left. I’m working on several more but, with the demands of storytelling and everything, quite a few of those strips are eight-panellers. Sometimes there’s just too much going on to squeeze it into four panels and I see no reason why I should… apart from the fact that it means twice the work for only one day’s comic. I could have split up the longer strips over several days but that would have sucked. Bear in mind, though, that you guys owe me three (soon to be four) days off already. Just something to think about, as we near the end of the buffer.
Now it’s time to separate the men from the boys, so to speak. No more buffer means no more cartooning at my leisure. Serious drawing now. Deadlines. Working into the night to get strips up on time. I’m fully prepared for that, of course… except that I’m coming down with a cold. This is going to get interesting.
It’s very easy for me to avoid spoilers since I had no idea what was going on but my God, this film’s visuals were breathtaking. I guarantee Advent Children has the best fight sequences you will see this year and probably in your lifetime. I could just about follow what was going on because I had an abridged script to hand and that was all I needed. I’m not sure how being able to understand the dialogue would have made the experience any more enjoyable.
Update on the Lynx/Axe situation: a new advert in the ‘Spray More Get More’ range, in which a man sprays the Lynx on a penny and throws it into a fountain so that the woman who has become attracted to the penny runs in after it. This is madness. See for yourself here.