SquidDNA - March 24th, 2009
For a story about mankind’s sandy future, the dark theme just doesn’t work. We’re aiming for something a bit more sandy, and having everything centered just gets BORING after awhile. We’re getting closer to new content in presentable form, some of which is here. Expect to see more there soon.
SquidDNA - January 3rd, 2009
As you may have guessed, we have something new planned. We’re shifting the mark from “One enormous epic story” which is, frankly, takes more in both conception and execution than we’re ready for as creative types, to “a few scenes here and there with some smattering of continuity.” The new project is somewhat tentatively titled “Carbon Wars.” If we find that the format of occasional mini-stories works, it’s not inconceivable that we may at some point return to Kir-Sia and pick up a lot of the awesome scenes we had planned as interrelated one-offs without the real continuity we had planned but were unable to get off the ground. Or even just do the thing like we’d always wanted to, but right now neither of us can do the story the justice we think it deserves. So we’re going with something a bit more experimental instead.
While I don’t want to suggest that you’ll see anything besides more sketches and snippets in the coming weeks, don’t forget about us! If you don’t come back to the site until June I’m certain you will find something good then.
Riess - July 28th, 2008
So, as you’ve probably noticed in the last months, I’m slipping. It wasn’t so bad when only the color content of the comic was postponed, but now nothing gets done, and I’ve pretty much lost hope that I’ll ever catch up.
It’s time I admit defeat.
We’ve had this sort of love-hate relationship, the comic and I. There were times when we didn’t talk to each other at all, times when we got along pretty well, and times when it was all just sweet passionate love. Hell, we even broke up before and then found together again, gave ourselves another chance. But it just isn’t working out.
Maybe I need more time to think this over, maybe I need more practice, more confidence, skill, or speed. Whatever it is I lack, I couldn’t find it in the last half year, and so I’m ending this one before its misery drags on for even longer.
Thanks for enduring, it was fun while it lasted, sometimes.
- Riess
Riess - June 1st, 2008
Sorry for my unannounced disappearance and related delay of the most recent pages. I got in the sort of bad artistic mood for which I should really have buffers in place, but I didn’t. I’m working on catching up now, no update will be skipped in the long run.
Page 29 concludes the first chapter, and we’ll be back on schedule June 9th with the beginning of the second one.
Thanks for reading!
- Riess
SquidDNA - 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.