Blank version from here: http://quarterbeck.tumblr.com/post/43870985790

The plan is to do one of these a week while the comic is on hold. Cheers.

My laptop is getting old and cranky. I’ll hopefully be upgrading it in the very near future. In the mean time, Photoshop lags horribly (especially when I work in text layers) and my computer absolutely will no longer handle Photoshop and Livestream at the same time.

I’m sorry to say that Clockworks is on hold until I get a new machine. This should happen in the next couple of weeks, hopefully.

I missed our return date last week, as my art project for the upcoming Naughti Gras art show grew in to a beast of insane proportions that consumed all of my time that wasn’t devoted to other paying artwork. (And all of my money. Frames are not cheap!)

Good news is, the line art for Clockworks 0142 is finished, and I’ll be doing a livestream when I wake up today (Monday) with a comic update immediately after.

I’ll post here, Facebook, and Twitter when I’m streaming, so keep an eye out.

A couple of weeks ago, my girlfriend and I broke up, which was followed by the Thanksgiving holidays and a bunch of social obligations and some post break up drinking/socializing, which was followed by some post drinking/socializing getting incredibly sick last week, which was followed by a bit more ex relationship drama and then some drinking/socializing last weekend.

Oh and I have a mountain of work I need to get done in the next two weeks. I have the next page very much mapped out in my head, I just need to sit down and draw it.

So, comics are late, will hopefully return in mid/late December.

Sorry gang. Back soon.

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Oh!

While you’re waiting on a new comic, check out this bit of awesomeness! I hired the poet Gabriel Gadfly to write the Great Republic’s national anthem:

On this newborn day
we shuck off shackles
of ignorance and fear
and march together,
old and young,
into new knowledge
and understanding.

With the strength of our arms
and the engines we’ve wrought,
we forge an enduring future,
a radiant city of liberty,
a bright world for every child,
where doubt and folly
fall to science and truth,

a world where we
share equally and free
the fruits of our progress
and future,
where the light of a New Dawn
shines forever.

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Any of you have a decent singing voice?

Click to embiggen:

New comic up this week! Missed last week due to the holiday and real life stuff. Expect a livestream sometime in the next day or three.

That is all. Normal comic next week!

Whew! That took a while!

First up, there was a delay due to paying work and script wrangling. Originally my plan was just to have Toby tell us all what happened here. But it felt really flat and forced and just didn’t work. I knew the next comic after Toby’s flashback would be the mysterious knock at the door we see here, and I decided mysterious knocking people wouldn’t wait for the story to be over, and it was much more fun to interrupt things.

Then there was a delay last week as I injured my left wrist somehow. I’m right handed, but my left hand sits on the keyboard hitting various shortcut keys while I make a comic.

And THEN I got food poisoning, which pretty well shut things down for the rest of the week.

After all of that, I helped put on the largest Beggar’s Carnivale ever, as I played music and my friends performed for over 700 people in a giant spectacle of awesomeness. Then I DJed a second show on Sunday.

But NOW, now I’ve finished the comic, and shared it with you all!

New page should be up early next week, God willing and the creek don’t rise.

EDIT: I posted a few wordless panel close ups to Tumblr. You guys might enjoy them.

Hey it’s a comic!

Thanks to everyone who joined in today’s Livestream!