Also, if you're wondering how I can unintentionally give an imaginary character a blue mohawk for no reason at all...writers don't always know what they're doing. Really, really weird things just click together ten seconds before you're writing the section. My brain is a wonderful thing. Put normal stuff in and really weird, crazy crap comes out.

News: Well...the oooooh-pretty quality is going to take a nose-dive for a little while. Line-art quality will hopefully go up (meaning, I'm going to use some) but I took a few steps out of the shading process so that I could make pages faster. The next two pages were an exparament that will not be repeated, and I'm gonna see if I can't modify one of 'em to look better between now and Thursday. I hated to do it, but it's NaNo season. I really intend to be a novelist, but that means I have to write. a lot. A WHOLE lot. 11 months out of the year I have trouble getting more than 500 words in a week. During NaNo I can do 100,000 words in one month. Don't ask me why or how, I just can. Maybe it's the insane deadline or something. What comes out this year is going to be ready for a publisher by next year. That's my promise to myself...but that also means I get two choices...let quality of the comic take a dip while I prep for NaNo, or not do any comics for the entire month of November. As you really wouldn't like me stopping at November 1st--seriously, it's a bad place to break--I went with a quality dip. I'm pretty sure that I can slow things down and raise quality again now that the buffer's nearly there, so things will get better. Really, really sorry about it. Really. - Chelsea Gaither