Just to make it official, Reclaimer is on hiatus for the remainder of the holiday season. I’ll be back in the first week of January with more storyline and new plot twists. In the meantime, I’ll be enjoying time with family and friends – and working on getting myself ahead of schedule with the comic.
So, enjoy your holidays, and we’ll you all again after the first first of the year.
Many apologies. No comic again today. December is the month from hell for me just about every year, and this year is worse than usual. Swamped at work, getting ready to start back to graduate school, new editorship for a sci-fi/horror magazine, plus the usual holiday madness. I was actually half-way through the creation of today’s comic last night, but it just wasn’t working me for me. I felt like that part of the story was weak, and I really wasn’t happy with it. So rather than force through a shoddy bit of storytelling and kick myself for it afterward, I opted to scrap the whole thing and call it for the night. Believe me, when your muse is not happy, it’s best not to ignore her and piss her off. I’d kind of like to keep her around a while longer.
I’m not sure how my evening will work out tonight, but I’m hoping to get another page out tomorrow, with better writing than my attempt last night. Man, I really need to get myself ahead of schedule again.
I’m trying something a little different with today’s page – colored balloons. It’s the fulfillment of a request to try to make it a little bit more clear about who’s speaking within Zeta Squad. Since the secondary armor colors are the only things distinguishing the Commander from his squad, I’ve opted to make the balloons match those colors. Of course, when I get into pages where multiple “green boys” are speaking, I’ll have to do something else to distinguish between them. For now, though, I think this works. Does this help you as the reader make a little more sense out of what’s going on?
Circumstances beyond my control, I assure you. I have my evening pretty open tonight, though, so I’m planning to spend some time trying to get all three of this week’s comics put together and ready, with today’s comic simply going up a day late. I apologize for the delay in this.
And in case anyone cares (thanks to all one of you), my GREs went very well on Saturday, and I’m in the process now of putting together my application to Purdue’s statistics doctoral program and gathering up all the supplementary materials that go with it. If all goes well, I’ll entering the program this next fall as a doctoral candidate, and then my life will become truly busy. It should be fun, though, as statistics are in my blood.
Alright, new comic tomorrow. I appreciate your patience.
Sorry, gang – no comic today. I’m planning to get myself back into graduate school, this time to pick up a Ph.D., and my previous set of GRE scores have exceeded their shelf life. So, I’ll be taking the GREs again tomorrow, but that means that I’m cramming as much study prep as I can into every spare minute I have. I will have new material on Monday – I promise – so you’ll just have to sit patiently until then.






