Steve has made a fantastic little program to update this site, and my monkey hands keep crushing it into dust each time I use it. What can I say? I was not made for delicate things.

There will not be a new comic up on Monday, I know, I know...

But for once it's not because it won't be done in time (probably). No, it's because it's a Winter-een-mas strip, and that holiday starts on Tuesday.

I've been terribly lax in returning emails and posting rants and the such. My romantic life has been rather fulfilling lately, and I couldn't be happier about that. Unfortunately between time spent there and time spent catching up on video games I've not been as attentive to this comic as I should have been. Rest assured however that everyone around me has been threatening me with bodily harm if I don't start devoting more time to this project.

So I'm gonna do so. Especially since San Diego is on it's way back into our orbit, a mere 6 months from now. Before it arrives I have to complete enough material to comprise some kind of "book", put together a couple T-shirt designs, and design and build the booth for this year. I'm not going to dissapear again this year like I did last year, booth construction shouldn't take up comic time the way it did then. So you'll be getting regular comics, not endless shots of standees and such in progress. Although there will be a sneak preview or two in there as well. We've got some really nice ideas for this year, and right now we're just waiting to hear back from someone about sharing our extra booth space.

Kyle of Brainwrap Comics will be there for sure, though being even lazier than I lately it's unlikely he's going to have a books worth of material done in time.

We do plan to have a third person at the booth, and we're discussing that with them right now. I'll let you know when things are official.

We're theoretically going to be kiddie-korner to Dayfree Press, which will be awesome in new and interesting ways. And hopefully webcomics in general get placed a bit closer together than last year. There was a bit of a conglomeration, but a lot of the majors got stuck in wierd areas, making them difficult to find (Real-Life, anyone...). Dayfree in particular got kinda shafted last year in a bizzare circus-tent "stay away, this area has the plague" fashion.

I'm really excited about this year, and I'm terrified about putting together a book. I'm trying to figure out right now how much to put into it. Which strips, old? old-old? Or just the new square ones? It's not as easy as it sounds. I'd like to do everything, but it's not consistent. I'd like to keep it consistant, but then where do the first strips go? It's a common dillema in webcomics, the random early format changes. I'm leaning towards making this book kind of a catch-all. Maybe put it all in for now, and once I have enough of the new format for a book on their own, put the old strips into a smaller page count re-release? I have no idea. I don't like double dipping, so I'm trying to avoid that.

I dunno, I got a Winter-een-mas comic to finish drawing. Oh, and Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal is fucking fantastic. It's even given me some ideas on a new way to approach backgrounds for the strip. Suffice it to say the color in the Quark Vid-Comics makes me drool, and I want my backgrounds to be a little more vibrant than they have been lately.

We'll see...

Eric broke the site this morning, my apologies to anyone that had trouble accessing it. I tried to make it Eric-proof, but apparently failed. So enjoy the new comic, it took him long enough...