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Been quiet around here.
Chapter 5 was a chapter from hell. But it's a chapter that I always was very proud of despite the failings. This is where my update schedule went to hell. This is where the seizures really started to get in the way with my creative process. This is where a lot of people left the story. This is where I got more hatemail than I knew what to do with. And this is where I started to lose hope as everything else around me kinda fell apart. Thinking about Chapter 5 always makes me a little sad. The nostalgia I'm sure would be nice to learn from but only that. Chapter 5 was a labor of love and it does make me proud when I flip through it. This is where I won a Cartoonist Choice Award in Drama. This is where I drew the story together in ways that were not originally planned. This is where my characters really became people to me. And if I could make a movie trailer for SCD Book 1, this is where I would do it.
Chapter 5 is a long chapter. It ends up being over 30 pages and imagine, Chapter 6 was supposed to be in it. Chapter 6 ended up being 24 pages (25-26 for the book). I think the pacing here is really good. And I'll always love my car chase no matter what I do in the future.
The old rant is a good example of classic Chapter 5 crap. My mom kept moving all my paper piles together and since I was working on Chapters 1, 3 and 5 I kept losing panels for the next page. God I about lost my mind. The fact I had to live with my parents in the first place because I was sick was bad enough. Just - gah!
But speaking of Chapter 6, it went to print and will be available at all my conventions this year and may be available online depending on how well it sells at con. I can't wait to see it! It's in issue format, kinda like Part 2 only standard comic size which is what Part 2 was supposed to be. It'll be available for a couple months and then Chapter 7 and so on will be available for a period of time. Kinda like a real comic series! lol. So that'll be fun. I hope peeps can dig it. Chapter 6 will be online sooner than you think.
Figurines are still on their way to me. They're coming by boat since flying them was just insane. So we should see them in May sometime. I'm ordering more buttons because I ran out! So I'll have some new designs for you guys. If you donate $10 or more to the comic you get a button of your choice. Fun fun. International people can get them too - just take me a little bit longer to send them is all. I'll post up new designs soon.
More about my personal life and the like over at Vague Inklings. You can comment and whatnot. S'kinda fun! See you Monday.
In the neighbors lawn... I bought my house about 2.5 years ago,
before which I lived in a condo that didn't require any sort of lawn care. Before that, I hadn't mowed a lawn since I had lived with my parents before leaving for college. As a matter of fact, I had grown
quite sick of lawns by the time I left for college, which makes it harder to understand how I got a lawn fetish. Ok, maybe fetish is a little to strong a term, but I can't think of anything better.
Suffice to say, some of my neighbors, particularly one just around the corner, has got an amazing lawn... When I use to drive by on my way to work (I take another route now) the guy would be out smoking a cigar and watering his lawn... I despise his lawn... I wanted my lawn to look that amazing...
And so the obsession began. I first tried to hire a company to come and fertilize/spray my lawn, but to my dismay their weed killer killed all the weeds, which was most of my lawn, and then said I'd be stuck that way for the rest of the year as I wouldn't be able to seed until fall. the hell you say...
Two 50 lb. bags of seed and enough water to fill a couple of pools later, I got my grass back before the end of the year...
Round 2
The next year, I over seeded and aerated the soil, and threw out a bag of fertilizer... That seemed to do ok, but I was still behind the curve...
Round 3
Well, that brings us to now... I've over seeded again, aerated, and am now on a regimen of fertilizer that I get at the home depot... I'm hoping that this is going to be the year... but I still drive by
Mr. Cigar's lawn to check it out every now and then, and continue to plot my takeover of kickass lawns...