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Thanks to those of you who have been commenting. It's nice to hear from people who are still reading.

I wonder how much worse things can get for Isaac...

And it's here...

...so enjoy.

I'm off to watch Burn Notice on my new Blu Ray player.

I'm shooting for Friday/Saturday night for the next page.

Next update...

...should be up sometime Wednesday evening. Between friends having a baby and DMing 2 DnD sessions in 3 days, the weekend and early week has already been consumed. But I will be devoting tomorrow night to getting some comic on.

See ya then.

Happy Halloween...in two days.

Ok, so I think I'm going to just ignore the update "schedule" for the next month and see how many pages I can churn out in the following weeks. I'll aim for a minimum of 2 and a max up around 4. It's a lot of work, but I really want to tell the story in this chapter and get back to the main story. We've spent almost half a year in Isaac's past and enough is enough.

Not that I'm not looking forward to what happens next, because I am. This is a part of the story I've desperately wanted to tell since I began outlining it almost 3 years ago (2 years 9 months anyways). So in the interest of satisfying the both of us (me and literally dozens of fans that read this comic) I'm going to push myself through this chapter.

I'll be uploading pages as I get them done, no schedule set in stone. I'll be posting here when new pages get done, so subscribe to the blog's RSS if you want to keep track.

Not Dead (again)

Hello intertubes....how are you?

The last month has been crazier than I would have thought or expected. As I posted I took a trip to Los Angeles and then another to Chicago less than a month later. Things have been sort of hectic in between, but seem to be settling down nicely now. I'm not going away again until the holidays in December/January so I'm going to do some updating in between now and then.

I know it's kind of shitty when I drop off the grid like that, and I have gotten grief for not updating from various family members and friends. Long story short, I deserve it, but the comic does take a lot of time and time has been in short supply.

At any rate, I need to get the comic out of these flashback chapters and get things moving again, so I'm going to get my ass to work. Should have a page up before/around Saturday.

Chapter 8: Page 1

I'll be flying out to California Sunday and plan on attending a renaissance festival Saturday as August just continues to be terrible for my update schedule. I'll try to get a second page done this week, but there is a possibility the next update won't be until September 2nd.

After that I won't be traveling away from my PC until October, so hopefully we'll have a smooth ride until then.

In other news, Blazblue is amazing. Unlike Street Fighter IV, I actually win a few rounds in ranked matches.

Chapter Eight: The Reaper

Splash page time. Two nights of work, that one.

So, if you've been following along you may have noticed that the last couple of pages have been bigger than the old ones. I've picked a new size that is more suitable, I think, for web publication. I like it better, and I have since gone back and re-sized all of the pages I've produced in Manga Studio. The re-sizes start on the seventh page of chapter seven.

Chapter 8 will be the conclusion of Isaac's backstory. Lots of questions will be answered, I think, and then we will catch up to Seven, Daevlon and Isaac as they journey to Victory Port. They may bump into Liat and Cecil and some others along the way. It will be a journey too, as the arrival at Victory Port will signal the beginning of the end of Reaper 7. Sometimes it seems so close, but the reality is, it's a long way off.

In the future, you can expect twin chapters that go into depth about both Daevlon and Seven when I feel it's appropriate. Daevlon's story ties in heavily with the politics of the empire (and a lot of the stuff that's happening in the background during Isaac's Soldier/Reaper chapters). Seven's story has more to do with answering a lot of the mysteries about the weapons.

I'm telling you all of this because I want you to know that I do in fact plan on finishing the comic, and I have a plan.

Goodnight.