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I had to make a small dialog change for continuity's sake one page 16 of chapter 4. Isaac had previously talked about being ordered to wipe out his own village, which never made it into the comic. To introduce a whole village and make you care what happened to it would have taken a considerable amount of pages, more than I was willing to devote to his childhood.

As such, the outcome is a bit different, and that's all I'm saying. This chapter has 3 pages left. Enjoy.

And here it is

For reference, since it's been awhile:

The character Isaac is talking to has been in the comic before (Sherman is his name), in Chapters 4 and 6. He is a General in the current time line, but only a Colonel here.

Well it's time to play Assassin's Creed, in preparation for the sequel. Always good to be prepared.

Saturday Evening

That's when the new page will be ready. This will probably be the norm for that Saturday updates, as working on Friday night is a bit rough.

Transformers 2

I was invited by some friends to go see Transformers 2 tonight on IMAX before it opens in wide release. At first I wasn't going to post my thoughts since I really don't aim to do the review thing here, but then I thought what the hell.

Without revealing too much, the plot is dumber than the first movie (hint: they went the Stargate route) by a significant amount. One could argue that the movie is actually about what forms of liquids and gasses come out the transformer's bodies, and come out they do. At one point a transformer farts a parachute. I'm not making that up; I wish I was.

When the bullshit stops and the robots start fighting it out on screen a lot is forgiven. The action scenes are long and loud and basically awesome in that summer movie way.

So basically, if I were to sum it up, I hated everything in the movie that wasn't a giant robot beating the shit out of another giant robot. Come for the action, groan at everything else.

This is going somewhere...

Honest. There's a plan in all of this.

This is the 13th page I've produced in Manga Studio (as opposed to Photoshop) and I have to say, I'm still really digging this program. Even though I've only scratched the surface of what I can do with it, I still feel much better about the results than I did before.

Also, here's a lesson: don't make Isaac mad.

Well it's late and I'm going to sleep.

War is Hell

So yeah, my fingers are totally cramped. It was worth it, I think.

The problem with pages like this is that they take forever, but I can't resist attempting them. This one took about 12 hours.

Next page on Tuesday.

A little late

Saturday's page is taking a little longer than expected, and will be posted sometime during the day.

Is that...a page?

So the update schedule for the time being is Tuesday/Saturday. Thanks to all of you who stuck around. Hopefully these coming pages will make you glad you did.

Working on the comic again is nice. I honestly didn't draw much at all during the hiatus (except for random sketches in my DnD sessions) so getting back into everything is...comforting.

I took some of my time off to play video games, most recently Mass Effect. I know its been out for awhile, but I never really had the time to give it its due. I played through it twice, nearly back-to-back, and I never do that. A third trip through the 'verse is not out of the question.

Not Dead

I should explain.

A) The comic is not dead.

B) I was seriously burnt out.

I work full time, 40 hours a week. At my peak, I also put about 20-30 hours a week in the comic and site maintenance. This creates a scenario where I start to rebel against my own personal goals and constraints and I ultimately have to take a break in order to regain my passion for this great little hobby of mine.

I'm sorry I never posted anything to that effect, but that's on me. I want to complete this story, and I fully intend to.

Pages will resume on Tuesday the 16th, if everything goes as planned. Updates will fall to two a week to hopefully prevent the sort of burnout that keeps me from creating pages for a month at a time. This should also allow me to improve the quality of the pages that get produced without causing a sudden drop in sanity (or personal life).

But yea, I'm coming back. Isaac is coming back.