Hey gang.

As you have probably noticed, no new comics in the last couple of weeks.  I’m neck deep in Streets of Bedlam at the moment, and any time spent drawing is spent trying to squeeze more illustrations in to that book.

The good news is, Streets of Bedlam comes out next Wednesday, although I’ll likely be making stuff up through Tuesday.  And then Thursday through Saturday is the Show-Me Burlesque Festival in St. Louis, which I’m helping put on and working all weekend.

So.  Comics.  They’ll be back the week of Monday the 21st, at our regular Two Pages Per Week schedule, until the next time my life gets super busy or we finish this chapter and I take a few weeks off.  The good news is, I already have all the line art for the next two pages drawn, I just need to scan in everything and color everyone and make backgrounds and write words and all of that.  But hey, lines drawn.

Anyway, see you all in less than two weeks.

First up, new Clockworks return on Tuesday, April 3rd.  I might not be done with all of the Streets of Bedlam art by then, but I’m going to force myself to set aside a few hours to make a new Clockworks page.

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One of my favorite shows in recent years was Avatar: the Last Airbender.  If you’re familiar with the show and this comic, you’ll probably know why.  While the elemental magic in the Clockworks setting predates Avatar by some years, I can certainly say the show has helped shape how I view said magic.  If you’ve somehow not seen Avatar, you really need to.  The whole series is on Netflix Instant, and is absolutely worth your time.

Anyway, the sequel series, Legend of Korra, is out soon, and you can watch the first two episodes online at KorraNation.com.  Those of you who do watch it will almost instantly note some parallels to this comic here.  I’ll admit, at first I was worried that people would accuse me of ripping off something that came out a few years after I started this comic, what with elemental powers, a giant steampunk metropolis, propaganda, etc, but now I’m just excited because the show looks amazing.  I think Clockworks is different enough that only really dumb people would accuse me of ripping them off, and I encourage all of you who enjoy this comic to go and watch the show.  It’s pretty amazing.

It’s also pretty inspiring, not in that I want to add more asian elements to Clorencia City or try to ape the show, but in that it makes me want to create my own stuff and share it with you guys.  So that’s good.

Also, Mako and Korra are totally going to hook up.  I am going on record.

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In other inspiration news, the girlfriend and I saw Distant Worlds: the Music of Final Fantasy this weekend, two nights at the St. Louis Symphony.  It was pretty incredible, especially Saturday night that ended with the opera from FF6.  Absolutely worth seeing if it comes to your city.  I very much ended the night with a burning desire to Create Art.

Sadly for the comic, I do need to spend the next week doing pretty much nothing but drawing  Streets of Bedlam.  There are a lot of illustrations that need to be made, and the book needs to come out soon.

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See you all next week!

Yeah, baby! We’re back! (To random delays and interruptions in the update schedule.)

The past two weeks have been pretty crazy.  I don’t particularly want to go in to it all, but let’s just say that being poor sucks, and sometimes life takes precedence over drawing cool comics.

Anyway, things have settled now and there’s a warm and awesome spring out there.  (A new dawn, if you will.) This would be the perfect time for me to settle in and crank out a comic or two, except that I’m rapidly aproaching the deadline for Streets of Bedlam and it’s double plus crunch time on cranking out all of the cool gritty noir illustrations that I’m behind on due to the aformentioned life complications.

So, updates will resume normally in April.  I’d really like to get one or two comics done in March, but no guarantees.  If I do, consider it a cool bonus.