How many of these have I done?
I forget, more than I care to have done.
Remember when I used to religiously update three days a week?
Neither do I.
It seems like every few days something else is kicking my ass. Take right now: I’m barely able to sit down and do this. Don’t know why. But it’s taking every fiber of my being to not just say @#$% it and walk away.
I don’t know why.
I still love doing this comic, but it seems like it’s gradually slipped to the low end of my priorities. I have no explanation for it, but it has. Simply put I’ve got three jobs right now: School, school work, and substitute teaching. Then I’ve got the comic. And the comic is basically a 20+ hour a week job.
You may not think so, but I manage the site (no small task), write (nearly done with this arc’s strips), work on background sets (seriously, I love sketch-up, but @#$% the un-user friendlyness), and I haven’t even STARTED talking about the drawing, inking, coloring, shading, lettering, and other miscellaneous crap that getting one of these pages done entails.
Throw in the fact that I haven’t been happy with my method in a LONG time I’m starting to get discouraged.
I’m not saying that I’m going to end the comic. Or that I’m even thinking about it. But I’m going to try something out.
Basically: I’m going to start updating multiple pages once a week. I’m also scaling down the number of panels, it’s hard to explain, but I’m trying to make each comic page look more like a comic and less like one big @#$%ing newspaper strip.
I’ll have visual aids on Thursday. I think. I’ll let you know.
My hope is to update every Tuesday with 2-4 pages. Which evens out to about 2-3 ‘regular’ comics a week.
I don’t know if this will work. I don’t know if I’ll be able to do this. I don’t know if Tuesdays will work (maybe Fridays, maybe Mondays).
This is a total experiment.
Basically what I’m saying is:
I’m one man doing six jobs. I’d love to be able to hire someone to take over the art duties for me but I make less than minimum wage and The PKF just isn’t popular enough to financially support me let alone an artist.
But the second I win the loto I’m going to pay someone to draw for me.
But I digress.
TL:DR VERSION:
I’m going to start updating once a week but with a larger, more ‘issue’ oriented page count. Basically I’m going to have 2-4 pages with a panel count of 1-2 pages (9-12 panels, give or take).
This is an experiment, if it doesn’t please you, let me know, I want to hear about it.
Thanks for sticking with me, once I start to get into a groove, life will be sweet. Until then, hold on to your socks.
-Peace
This is probably the worst cock-tease you’ll ever get from me in relation to ’shit you may never actually see’. Remember The Littlest Demon Hunter? She and Shino (tentative name) travel together with the Swords Man (who has amnesia), Shino is an amalgamation of two different characters from that series, however he’s different enough that I think he’s his own character.
But who cares? It’s not like you’ll ever see this guy in the comic. Right? Or will you?
Dun dun dun…
No, seriously, you probably wont. Guardians is like Hunter, it exists in the same world as The PKF, but they’ll likely never cross over. And if they do there’ll be a good reason for it.
But really, don’t stress him. I’ve just had the worst urge to draw him since I saw Ninja Assassin a few nights ago (cheap theater, second time), that’s really the only reason he’s standing here right now. He’s kind of a ninja. But not in the Naruto way, in the ‘I’m gonna kill the crap out of you’ way.
Also, I made a wallpaper out of him to say ‘thank you’ for putting up with my shit. If all goes well I’ll have the start of the next chapter on Tuesday, with a rather large announcement about the direction that the comic is going. No, I’m not ending it, just reorganizing it…again.
But it’s not horrible. The quality should go up. ‘Should’ being the key word.
Anyhow, thanks for the best wishes yesterday. I got a new task chair, my old one’s back broke off and trying to draw on what is basically a stool sucked.
-Peace



