Okay, yes, no page tonight, thus LM’s filler up yonder.  He didn’t have a lot of notice and we’ve both had things going on, so forgive the unceremonious dump of white space and swine.

Thursday through Saturday ended up being our birthday celebrations.  This was not planned to go on for so long, but go it did.  We did some Borderlands LAN party fun time, ate junk food to the point of nausea (so for me lately, what, a slice of pizza?),  and Saturday’s “celebrations” were me coloring and then slapping the finishing touches on the last two pieces of Press X for the Escapist’s contest that was due Sunday at noon, which for me that basically means Saturday night because I never get up by noon, never mind whatever time zone it was.  Anyways, after cranking two and a half of those things out at the best quality I could in about a week, I learned a lot more about my capabilities, and my limits.  The result is that I took tonight off rather than color the page I’ve had inked since Saturday last week, and you’ve my apologies.  I really should’ve expected this and arranged something sooner than last night, but I honestly expect myself to be capable of a lot more than I seem to be able to do.

I’d love to throw these things at you guys so there’s proof I haven’t just been neglecting you all, HP, and the RP, but as it is I can’t until the winners are announced, and those get notified sometime this week.  Not sure when I can actually show you guys these things, but assumedly if I’ve not heard back for a couple weeks then I’m in the clear, at which point I’ll post those up here and hopefully four pieces of high-quality content will make up for this.  Granted, there are some things worth knowing, here.  Read the rest of this entry »

A’ight, dudes.  Tomorrow’s me and LM’s birthday, and the present is that I’ve made the site better for all… in theory.  Yeah, you get the presents.  Lucky punks.

I’ve updated WordPress in whole, dabbled with the ComicPress tools a bit, and… y’know, if these people can do one word with a capital P thrown in the middle, why can’t I get away with it?  Point, being, the back-end is improved, and the front-end, well, changes on that bit are  minor as I’ve found so far.  So why bother telling you?

Because I’ve also slapped Disqus into the comments system.  Old comments will be added into the system as we go, but it’s overall a better system wherein I can let you guys have your posts reflected right off, so long as you behave.  The majority of curse words have been cited for needing mod approval, and I’ll probably alter any posts with them to try and keep things appropriate for the site’s rating.  nothing personal, people, I just don’t want anyone’s parents coming and tearing my scalp off because you had to drop the F-bomb in the process of saying how cool Tenla kicking someone in the face was.  And should I miss something, you guys can flag it to let me know something is spam or just generally unacceptable for the site in whole should something get through.  I know some of you will probably have some weird censorship beef with this, but I’m pretty laid-back regarding swearing in the forums because there’s just no dang kids in there anyway.  Take the foul language somewhere else, like… in there, really.

In any case, that should be the gist.  Keep an eye out for rocky bits that have had a harder time surviving the changes and let me know if you find anything.  Peace out, and prepare to eat cake in my name.  Just do it.  I’ve given you an excuse.

- Zar.

Okay, kids, here’s the deal.

Redux is under a brief delay while I focus on this contest entry for the Escapist.  I’ve got just under a week to produce two more strips for this thing, and the two I’ve gotten so far have been comparable to the more trying pages of HP in terms of time commitment.  The King of All Cosmos’ head is a pain in the rear to color, and Borderlands has a lot of rock.  That said, I’m dang proud of these things, so here’s hoping my effort shows and I get somewhere in this thing.

What this push means for you guys is that, meanwhile, REdux is being pushed from the start of March to likely somewhere around the 15th.  Between birthday shennanigans and my typical weekly stuff, I’m hoping to get the contest entry worked out and otherwise it comes down to a page or two of Redux or updating the site.  I haven’t missed an update since before this chapter started two years ago, and I’m not about to start now.

So yes.  Wish LM and I a happy celebration of our creepy born-in-the-same-hospital-on-the-same-day event, and wish me luck with this thing.  I’ll get the next Redux page up on the vote incentives sometime this week, unless I forget, in which case… sorry?  Very busy.

Peace out, y’all.

-Zar

Digging into my DA inbox once in a blue moon does reveal some standout material now and then.  It’s how I found Heartcore’s creator, who has become one of the reasons I still check the darn site, and it’s how you discover little things like Digital Integration has risen from the grave.  There’s not a lot on the site yet, but DI’s always been something I’ve rather liked, so hopefully Travis sticks with it this time and the series gets proper love, part of which best come from you guys since the lad pays for the domain name and server for HP.  So yes, you’ve all manner of reasons to go check this thing out.  Do it.

There’s another fine thing I found while perusing my other vast mound of something or other called my webcomics list, that being a rather novel comic called Axe Cop, drawn by a professional artist and written by his five-year-old brother.  What results is something that’s kind of like Dr. McNinja if Dr. McNinja didn’t bother trying to make heads or tails of itself (don’t get me wrong, tho, the doc’s great).  So go read Axe Cop, or he’ll chop off your heads!  I must say that Good Bad Santa getting a chainsaw and unicorn horn is quite the cliffhanger, too.

In HP-related news, the vote incentive has been updated with the fifth page of Redux, so I do hope everyone’s keeping up with these things.    If you miss some, you’ll have to wait for the official launch sometime in March!  So remember to keep checking back and hitting that vote button every day!  I’m trying to keep the Twitter up to date on when I get pages up now, so if you want to keep in the loop on things that’ll give you one more tool!  : )  We’ve been less than timely regarding page launches and the like, as Sunday nights have gotten a bit busy on my end and LM’s off doing morning runs that leave him needing to be in bed at 9 or something so he can wake up at Unholy AM.  Fun stuff.

And if that’s still not enough, Zone’s put up an RP post that is earning universal praise at the moment.  I’ve not had a chance to check it out so far, but it’s hard to argue with the results, so you may wanna go check that out, too.

That’s all for now, peeps!  This wall of distractions has now been passed along to you.  I need to get back to work!  Stay awesome!

-Zar

Apparently we got a nice bit of nonsense javascript plugged into the site header.  My virus scan didn’t reveal anything, but being redirected to some video site or other was pretty dang inconvenient, and if you’ve been on teh site in the last couple days you might wanna run a scan, just to be safe.

In any case, if you’re on the page long enough to read this, either your internet died in the last few seconds, or I’ve fixed it.  So far, seems to be the latter.  the lack of maliciousness leads me to think it was just some stupid prank or other, but the code itself was very much nonsense and thus I’m left to assume a spambot thing somehow hijacked the site’s header.  I’ve taken some measures to prevent this from happening again and will be keeping a close eye on things for the next few days to see how things go down.  If you see any weird URLs pop up in the loading bar of your browser of choice, do let me know about it.

That is all~!