The Song of Asteria

I didn’t realize that we had suddenly gone a little NSFW, despite having wrote that page my own self, until I saw Kim share the image with the NSFW tag on Twitter.

Then for some reason it clicked. Oooooooh. Riiiiight. Nudity.

I don’t know what that says about me (or us, really) as writers. But, hey. Whatever. It’s a mature comic with some mature topics hidden behind some really excellent drawing skill. Isn’t it beautiful? Look at that perspective.

Nicoy makes me want to throw my entire paycheck at her. This is not very wise, however, as I still need to eat actual food.

Anyway, next step for us will be the cover for Chapter 2, which will come next, and then Kim will work her wizardry and we’ll have the chapter published, just in time for next month’s con we hope. ^^

Thanks for sticking with us. Stay tuned for Chapter 3, Return of the Creature. (Or something like that; went to watch the latest Star Wars movie, and didn’t hate it.)

Like a pre-game maybe? I don’t know.

I was reading somewhere, and, I think it’s true that the Holidays can be a really hard time for some people. I know it’s been a hard time for me recently and, I hope if you’re reading this, I hope the comic update cheers you up some. If you’ve got a really happy holiday, good! If not, I think it all gets better in the Spring, so hold on!

Something really kind of cool happened to me this year. So, although I’ve been trying to straighten up my finances for a while, it hadn’t happened yet; Christmas bonus check was a little short, and the last quarterly bonus wasn’t much. So I had to tell my folks I wouldn’t make it home during the holidays. It’s been a few years since I saw them and I wanted to go, but couldn’t spare the couple thousand that the plane tickets cost. So, I had to make that call home.

My grandfather told me if I could just get the time off of work, he’d call up my brother – who handles the family finances – and ask him to buy the tickets. So it took a week or two of prodding but my company let me off the week (3 days without pay, but 2 vacation days) and so, on the 22nd, I’m flying out back to my home state! On top of that, an old friend of mine from High School ended up calling me last week, and once he learned I’d be back, he promised to drive up and spend an evening or two hanging out.

It will have been a few years. The last time I visited was when I’d just started driving, and that was 3 years ago or so.

Sometimes things work out.

Hope everyone can find a good holiday.

-Mike.

Hey guys, me again.

So like I think got mentioned earlier, we’ve been doing a page a week for a little while to get a few pages ahead on the comic before we transition into Chapter 3. Chapter 3 has some fun stuff, like fight scenes! (Looking forward to seeing how Nicoy does those). We only got three this month, though.

If nobody realized, Kim’s birthday was a few days ago. Wish her a happy birthday.

I still have to write page 15! (Ehehehe, I am sorry Kim, I have the day off today and it’s on the big list of things I couldn’t do during my normal work schedule). It should be the final page of this chapter of the comic, so I want to do it right and I’m still mulling over just how. We do have the general outline set though, once again due to my writing partner’s foresight and divinity-like planning and discipline.

In other news, lately I’ve dropped 3 dollars on a basic, small sketchbook, which I don’t actually use for sketching. I’ve decided to call it the “car list”. Someone told me once that our memories are somewhat spatially based, and that’s true for me. Every time I sit down in my car, I remember all the stuff I have to do. When I open the door and step out, I forget it all. So now I have a little book in my day bag that’s the car list. I’ve always done well with schedulers but get somewhat figity with them so I figured I’d just make my own from a book of blank paper. Not so much a scheduler as a running to-do list.

Someone else I ran into was talking about using sticky notes, and doing around three important things per day for the small boost of success without draining yourself? Figured I’d try it.

Christmas season’s coming up soon, so the freight’s increased. My day job’s driving a commercial truck, so every time I set foot on the job site, it’s like, an 11-13 hour day now. I’m beginning to doubt my decision to stay in Hawaii. I was getting paid more overall for cross-country, and there was a bed in the truck. And the truck had air conditioning. I have never lived somewhere without air conditioning until now.

Hopefully I’ll survive until next page. See you guys then. – Mike.