This page was when tablet-work just kinda clicked together. Coloring process had come together around the end of chapter one, but I was having difficulty doing the layout drawings. I GOT drawing with a tablet with this page and things started to fly from here on in. I also started fudging around with production times because pages were just taking too freaking long to do. I came to a compromise.

One of the best parts about being a month or so ahead is that I've had enough time to distance myself from the pages. I look back and it's like aliens made the page. This is a good thing.

In Other News: No new redos for right now. Those are on hold while I do the Big Buffer Buildup and see if I can maintain a three-day-a-week update schedual without blowing circuts or something. You vote-people are amazing, though, so I'll probably take a short-ish break from story-line comics and do a redo just for you guys. (I know. I'm evil) - Chelsea Gaither

Blah - Thursday, August 11, 2005
Little bit of a news update. I've changed the vote incentive to a redo page, as promised...I'm particularly proud of it. :) I'm considering using the redos to put together an actuall hard-copy paper-and-ink COMIC BOOK (GASP!) through LuLu.com. Somebody showed me that oh-so-tempting site not too long ago, and while I wouldn't dream of using it for my novels, for comic books that only a very small, obsessed, part of the population would read, it's simi perfect. I'm still feeling the site out and researching it, and there would be a whole copyright-thing I would need to do, but it's something that may happen.

BTW guys: I wanna talk to ya'll. The forum is really nice, and the two of you who have been using it are great to talk to (Not talking to you two. You get to feel smug...or whatever) but the rest of ya'll ought to drop by and make your presence known. We need to wear the forum OUT.

And while I'm still working on doing a tri-weekly update starting in October, I'm not so sure that's gonna happen now. It's totally dependant on me getting far enough ahead to gaurentee tri-weekly updates for at least two months, and I've gotten depressed. When I get depressed, it's hard for me to do artwork at all, and even harder for me to do it right. You'd think with all the ways I've been depressed lately, I'd learn how to get over crap easy, but I haven't. I guess this is less depression than it is worse depression than normal. It kinda feels like all the color is gone, or something. I dunno. I'm really tired of having days like this, but I have no idea if there's anything I can do to make these kinds of days go away for good. - Chelsea Gaither