This one is really kinda sad. More Inez stuff to come, probably all of it kinda sad, next week (this posted October 4, 2013)
Other possible names of the band included STASIS IN DARKNESS, which I rejected because it seemed harder to letter, or WHITE GODIVA, which seemed, um, problematic.
Also to clarify something that POSSIBLY DOESN’T REQUIRE IT: Arachne has been with the band a long time, since its formation! She’s just gotten better/more unstable lately in a way that is good for the band but bad for everyone in it. I don’t think it actually matters much at this point (and reserve the right to change it if I have good reason to like, One Day, if these characters ever recur), but an Early Reader was confused about this, so I thought I would clarify.
BAND-RELATED: you guys you guys Band Vs Band is updating again, and features a new TAPEWORM-CENTRIC page that y’all gotta read
Oh also: I was named as one of the contributing factors to O/R Books being named one of Flavorwire’s 25 Independent Presses that prove we’re in a Golden Age of Publishing:
Any publisher awesome enough to boast a list that includes a book of Yoko Ono’s poetry, titles by Julian Assange and Douglas Rushkoff, novels like The Dream of Doctor Bantam by Jeanne Thornton, and the must-read Inferno (A Poet’s Novel) by Eileen Myles has more than earned its spot on this list.
Yay! Good to know! I feel like a real asset on the O/R Books! However, um, I just received my first royalty report, and it turns out that as of this moment I’m actually a liability on the O/R Books, since a lot of people have read and loved my book, yet few have like, bought it. MAYBE YOU COULD HELP US OUT IN THAT REGARD
A new page in the Main Story tomorrow (this strip posted on October 1, 2013, OBAMACARE DAY in the US)! A continuation of this Inez band thing Friday! People are thinkin’ thoughts! Reflecting!
We do not see enough of Inez, some of you say! THAT IS ALL ABOUT TO CHANGE! The next five strips in the YEAR ONE chronology are ALL GONNA BE INEZ ALL THE TIME. I hope you enjoy this! (Posted, btw, September 26 2013.)
I feel like I had something else to say, but GUESS I DIDN’T. See y’all next Tuesday!
In twelve years we’re gonna look back on this and laugh.
(Posted September 25 2013 and backdated, fyi)
A storyline involving INEZ commences following this!
The conclusion of our fun little storyline! It started here. (If you can’t tell, that is a fire engine. I laid this comic out back in June, and I would kinda not have laid it out this way were I to be doing it now. But this is the sad way of comics.)
I like storylines! There will be two more of them, one a little shorter than this and one a little longer than this, before I finish with the Year One stuff, along with a couple of non-storyline comics. I want to have a book ready by March 2014, i.e. STAPLE. (For archival purposes: this is being posted 9/19/13.) If anyone knows possible ways to have this book be in color without (1) going through Createspace, which I want to avoid, or (2) costing a huge amount of money, please let me knowwww.
Oh nooooo
There is one more strip in this miniature storyline (this one uploaded Sept 18, 2013), and then some more storylines, and then I guess more comics forever and ever, sure
Oh gee, another wrinkle! (Also Daphne Rickets’s husband is really pretty awful.)
Two installments remain in this little storyline, posted this early AM, September 13, 2013, anno domini.
I like the George R. R. Martin books too. What do YOU think has happened to Jon Snow, gentle readers?
There are three more strips in this little storyline (this one posted September 10, 2013), and then another storyline featuring INEZ, some other comics, and then a big Grand Finale to the Year One stuff, at which point all the gap should be filled between this and the ongoing Year Two stuff. Then everything will be ontologically calm in my world (except that The Man Who Hates Fun still needs an ending, and I never finished the third game in my ZZT trilogy when I was 15, so.)
This is the saddest thing about Zelda, that you can not just go out and find terrifying places to explore as a kid, I imagine.
I don’t have a ton to say about this one beyond that I really like Mona’s statue so much
There are more of these backdated strips coming (actually posted on September 8 2013)! One should be up tomorrow, for example, and more strips in the like REAL TIMELINE will go up in short order after.