Author: Skulldog

So, that early page the other night? It’s story time.

While randomly doing stuff online the power goes out, finding myself with one hour of laptop time, and a router/modem on a backup generator on equally low power levels, I quickly lettered the page and posted it. You know in case the power wasn’t on quickly.

I’m glad I reacted quickly, as the reason for the lack of power was a truck had skipped the curb, landed on top of a parked car, while also managing to hit a telephone line which in turn crashed into the powerline. Visualize that, a truck on top of a car, and a telephone poll balanced against the powerline. Crazy. We did get power back around 3am the next morning.

And the best birthday present ever. Patch Together picked up the Skulldog plush toy design, he’s already half way on the needed pre-orders before they make it into a toy. The way Patch works is you WILL NOT BE CHARGED any money until they finish creating a prototype plush, and are ready to ship the finals. Right now at $24.95, but once it reaches the full 20 orders needed, that will go up, get in early and get the discount.

Back on track after my two week trip to the over, mysterious coast of the US. Sadly, this Monday’s page will undoubtedly be a little late, as I need to make a trip up to Vermont, and depending on how late I get back, it could end up being posted Tuesday.

In the mean time, have ‘Castle of Cards’, a darker web comic you might enjoy:

Well folks, that aforementioned downtime in January is now.

Next week there will be a Saturday update, but not Monday, and the following weekend there will be no update as well. The next update after this break will pick up again on the 30th.

I hate to do the downtime, but being out of town makes it hard to get things done.

Seriously sorry there, for disappearing for a week and not leaving a note about the fact that I’d not be updating last weekend. I was away visiting my parents and enjoyed a four day trip to Disney World.

There will be some more down time in January for two weeks, I’ll try to have page ready for that, but not making any promises, since I have a lot of work to do from now until then.

Thought I’d give you awesome readers a head’s up that next weekend’s lack of pages. You guessed it, I’m out of town again for convention hoping.

My goal when I get back is blast some more bonus pages for Five’s side story and answer the bucket of emails I’ve got building up. I really let that go..

First, I have to say, I feel sort of dumb, but also a bit bad. I thought I had put up the second bonus page to Five’s story as the vote incentive WEEKS ago, tonight I stopped into Top Web comics to change it to the third, and I noticed I never changed from the last sketch. D’oh.

Now it really is the second page. Third will go up sometime next week.

Also, long time readers will know what the upcoming Holidays mean to the comic, once again I’ll be doing the only donation drive I ever do here, the one that cover my trip to visit my parents.

If you aren’t familiar with what goes down, every year my parents steal me away for a week to visit, and it throws off my updates for a bit, so instead of missing out on those pages, I take donations. These donations help me take time off my normal work schedule to get two pages ready for the trip.

If it hits the usual $60, you won’t even notice I’m gone, updates will go up as planned. AND this year I’m going to making some stickers to send out to donors during the November drive.

I’ll make a new news post about this, with some silly official banner and such, for now, you can still donate using the dongle on the side bar.

Back from my week off, returning home with only minor sickness, and not some awful Halloween flu. I was given a list of three things to do NOT do:

1. Don’t share drinks.
2. Don’t eat food that other people have touched.
3. Don’t touch your mouth.

With in the first two hours of being at the convention, I did all three. Do I tempt fate? All the time.

In other fun news, my boyfriend finally read my comic. No really, hes been telling me forever that he didn’t want to out of fear he’d be too critical of it. Today he confused the heck out of me by referencing  Devin as ‘your comic guy that’s dead, but he doesn’t know it’. I told him to write a thesis paper about this idea, like the ‘Farris Bueller Fight Club Theory’ , since I’ve never had anyone take that view of the story so far.

So guys, does anyone else think he’s on to something?

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Holy crap.

Let this be an announcement, I will be out of town next weekend for drinking and wearing costumes a convention,which means your least favorite thing in the world, no updates next weekend!

Sorry about the lack of pages last week, I ended up a bit sicker than I thought, and with the chapter over I decided on a break instead.

In return, I have /finally/ found the missing thumbnails for the bonus comic that mysteriously stopped updating awhile back. New age to follow for vote incentives, probably by the time the week starts.

I’m suffering a bit of seasonal allergies right now, which is making my eyes particularly painful right now, I’m going to tty to get today’s page in time, but in likelihood it will go up tomorrow.

BRB site is going to be a bit flaky while I update, and re-skin everything. D’oh.

Edit: And we’re back. Need to do some color tweaking still, and figure out why the categories are out of order, but otherwise back to working order.

A little bit of a story.

Got a new laptop, which turned out to have a bad motherboard, and had to return it. Stuck with Vista until I get that free Win7 update.

Managed to get my acient copy of Painter6 to run fine on it, but had some issues with Photoshop being laggy.

Everything works now, playing WoW at 130fps now. Thumbs up.

Haiku story aside, I’ve put my old Etsy account back into use. Right now I have some generic art up for sale.

I’m thinking about adding some BRINK sketches to the batch as well, if there’s any interest from the reading mass.

I already see it coming, slightly delay, probably going up late Monday night.

Random last minute idea to drive down to Connecticon for Sunday.

This will the first convention in over ten years, I’ve gone to as a fan and not a dealer/artist trying to sell things.  Mind BLOWN.

Will report back.

Now up: Pencils for a new wallpaper. Full wallpaper version to follow shortly.

Yeah, late page, Monday is being delayed a day as well. Can you forgive me? I treked out to the VNV Nation concert in Boston and managed to fuck my leg up pretty badly tripping over a table in the bar.

Have some reading in the mean time: Devil Bids Us Skoal

So I’m curious, how many people think Five is completely making what up she knows about BRINK, and who thinks she’s speaking some truth.

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And we’re back, that totally did not feel like a whole week I was gone from updating.

Also, while we’re at it, Yesterday was the birthday of BRINK. Three years ago, upon returning home from Anime Expo, I sat down over a weekend with too much free time, and starting drawing the first few pages of the comic.

Three years, yikes.  If I had asked myself back then if I thought I’d see myself still working on this comic, I’d have said no. I’m glad my past self is just a lying bastard.