Monday | May 5th, 2008
Riess already talked about this in the notes for Page 25 but I want something in the blag for new readers / anyone who missed it. We restarted the comic in January so that it would be possible to advance the story at a pace we were happier with. Riess added color because it seemed like it would be possible to get out a color page on a weekly basis. The problem we’ve seen is that it’s not always possible to do so consistently, so what we’re going to do is work ahead with the inks so there will always be story, and that way when the painting gets hard it doesn’t cripple the week’s work. We’ll post updates in the comic notes when Riess has caught up with some of the painting, and we may work out a way to do this more effectively with the website.
The box that is hosting us at the moment has been spitting fire and shutting down every so often. This has been traced to a minor hardware problem, which has since been fixed. Hopefully we’ll be stable again from here on.
The extras section, now conveniently located on the navbar, is up. It contains selected concept art and wip versions, as well as pages of the previous version of the comic, which will not spoil things for new readers. This section will grow as time goes on. Thanks very much to ionfish for the critical CSS pointer that made it snap into place.
Welcome to the comic! Archives (ordered by date) are at the top on the navbar, the “first” link is under the comic on the right. We welcome feedback, just leave a comment where you feel it’s needed. We hope you enjoy it!
Most of the work is done, tonight for me will consist of ticking some checkboxes and shuffling some files around. Riess has one more thing to do. After that, the prologue will be up, and we’ll be (gasp) live. The way this Wordpress theme works is that comics are stored as files marked by date so the theme grabs them from a folder and then displays them, but by the nature of that system one cannot post more than one comic a day. Normally that would be fine, except for our case where we’re posting a block. The easy workaround is simply to backdate them for the past nine days, and then they’ll display sequentially. The downside is that for anyone coming into the site, the most recent comic displays first, so we’re going to temporarily end with a splash that directs people to check the archives and read from the beginning. Hopefully this will be more straightforward than it sounds.
Anyway Riess and I are both so excited we can’t contain ourselves so I’ve already made a signature image with spoiler art. If you’ve clicked it from a forum, I apologize but you’ll have to wait ONE MORE DAY to actually see the comic! Please come back. I’m sorry to be a tease.