I have received a lot of comments about the update frequency of the strip (moreover, the lack of it). While it seems I’m finally stabilizing on a Sunday update schedule, the whole weekly thing seems to be just waaaay too slow. If it bothers you, let me tell you that it drives me mad. This stuff is supposed to have an actual story. I have several storylines I want to explore planned for the future, but it all seems to advance very slowly. Which is why I’m exploring new directions.

I thought for a while about making non-colored strips for the middle of the week and keeping the current Sunday colored strip. Don’t know how this would rub you. I could put a sample of how the strip would look without color somewhere to give you an idea. Let me know if this is something you would want to see. I’m somewhat obsessive about the art, so it would take a conscious effort from me to release those strips, but it would shave a few hours off the development process.

I have also thought about making a 1-panel gag strip in the middle of the week (the “Insanity” poster started that way but became a normal strip). I kind of like this idea, and I’ll at least follow up on that with a few more spoof posters. Problem with this is: The format for a 1-panel gag thing doesn’t provide much on the way of character development material.

I’d like to know your opinions on these subjects. Also, thanks to everyone who has written so far and to those who haven’t: Hope you do sometime in the future. I like to know who’s reading this thing and hear from you. I will answer every email I get.

Announcements

- Next week will be Plug Week. I’ll make a daily rant about the comic industry, introduce the comics and communities that I’m linking to and let you in on a bit of background history about this stuff. If this pikes your curiosity come by and check out the rants. There will be a new one every day.

- The next strip will go up on time this Sunday. It will be somewhat different to the usual stuff. Hope you like it.

- You may have noticed that we now have a forum courtesy of TWC (thanks Threeboy!). Apparently there is a bug on the registration system so new people can’t register and post, but it’s being worked on. I’ll let you know when it is available.

- The Top Web Comics list finally reset (for real) and we’re doing fine. Thanks everyone. Keep voting. I’ll keep on thinking up stuff so I can update more often.

— sergio on April 04, 2003