AbscondWithAPie:
So, Courtney and I are thinking about knocking the update frequency down to two days a week for the rest of the summer. I know it seems a bit silly, but we actually have less free time now than we do during the semester, since we both get home from full day jobs feeling very tired. Courtney simply hasn’t had enough time to get ahead on the comic, and as it is she sacrifices all her free time to it.
Therefore, what we’d like to do is switch to Monday and Friday updates, with a possible mini-update on Wednesdays. What that would mean is you’d get the usual updates on Monday and Friday, but we could have a regular update on Wednesday that just isn’t as demanding as a full comic. Before we start doing that regularly, though, we need to decide what it’s going to be. That is where you readers come in.
Think about what you’d like to see most, besides a third comic. For example, we could simply make small pictures like today’s every Wednesday, or we could try to flesh out an aspect of Idenau, or anything else you might think of. Just let us know what other content you’d be interested in seeing, and we’ll consider it as a possible Wednesday update option.
GET WELL SOON o3o
-from the fans
(ceparo Quebec.)
Is that a kissy face? I’m not sure Victor appreciates all our fans kissing me.
But thank you.
lol no a fish face big difference xD
Here’ a free health potien, and yes you can keep the bottle, and i whould love to know more about idenau’s people and culture.
YAY!
Cool! I look forward to explaining a bit more about Lurkins and demons and flish… and humans too, I suppose
BLAH humans are boring!
And they make me depressed, too…
But not you guys! You guys make life awesome.
Aw
feel better Courtney! This very instant! And dont you dare get victor sivk either young lady! Humph!
Im actualy pretty OK with that thought. Maybe you could do blog updates or Victor could post doodles :P.
And by ok I mean I wouldnt eat your eyes if I was a.zombie. Just your brain. Im not being uunreasablle here- I mean noones gonnaa eat your eyes.
Like If I was a cannabalistic serial killer (NOTTHATIAMPFFFFTNOOFCOURSENOT)
I would eat.you pinky instead of.your thumbs. Not eye-and-thumb eating mad. Jjust pinky-and-brain eating mad.
So just in case im not being clear on this, i wouldnt be all that mad.
Oh and the picture:
“aaaaaaaaw. Looks like Skarva and grandpas friend are having fun together.”
You’re scaring me D:
I can’t get Victor sick with what’s got me down >________> Also, I SHOULD make him draw, a third of the time. >:D Maybe he can make “Comics by Derk” or something.
I wouldn’t mind two updates a week. If you’re going to do mini-content on Wednesdays, why not do little quick-sketch comics to flesh out some of the minor characters, and the world outside the castle?
I hope you’re feeling better when you read this, Courtney!
Man, we are going to leave this castle soon for quite a while, THANK THE GODS. Although the minions might be here a bit longer. I swear if I have to make that purply wall texture one more time… well… never mind, I do. Sigh. I miss drawing trees and stuff.
I’m just kinda bleh today. No big deal.
Get well soon, Courtney.
Maybe you could post early sketches or ones that didn’t make the final cut.
I’m going to have to post that first Skärva I ever did, some day… It’s just that no day deserves the dubious honor of unleashing that horror upon the world…
Dawwww…
Hope you feel betyter soon.
a random pic every wed would be a fun tidbit to look forward to. why not just do whatever the heck you feel like? and if u run out of ideas, you’ve always got this wonderful fan base to ask.
Why not just choose what you *want* to do on Wednesdays, haha? Want to do a quick, random doodle? Okay! Want to answer a few questions about the comic? Okay! Or maybe you feel as if you have enough free time to do an entire comic? Okay! Or maybe you don’t feel like doing one at all? Okay!
The only thing I ask is that if you decide on not doing anything at all, (that is, not doing anything at all *some* of the time), then leave a note like you always do. Otherwise, all is well.
Purely because I’m into the whole worldbuilding thing – sketches of wildlife, folklore, people, locations and stuff from all over Idenau. That sort of thing. I love seeing additional, external stuff.
Get better soon
We’ve already done a fair bit of that between us, we just have been hesitant to reveal things that might come up in the actual comic later; as much as I like telling, Victor is more artful with the show-don’t-tell strategy. But, I think it wouldn’t hurt to directly explain things to our audience that people in Idenau grow up taking for granted. After all, who is that going to get explained to in-comic? Even Lorelei found herself with a pretty good amount of world-knowledge. Except maybe Slice, he just forgets things sometimes.
Is that the “Evil is for Everybody” book?
I would be alright with anything from ghost anatomy, to doodles, to evil-related jokes, or anything exiting that went on that week. But never, ever forget, that wordsoo become. thank you.
Ha! Probably not, the Second wasn’t such a bad guy…
Evil-related jokes? As long as I don’t write them. The pain and groaning they would inflict upon our readers would be evil indeed.
Well that’s just downright adorable. I’d be happy with just random stories, like unrelated background characters.
Background characters or random aspects of Idenau that show us there’s more to the world than just Skarva and his peeps. Like #3 on this cracked article. http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-moments-that-make-video-games-worth-it_p2/
I will read the rest of that article later, but that one point is great. I think it might be interesting to go back to places our characters have been and see how life gets on normally when they’re not around. What’s the aftermath of the heist in Wilderfall? What kind of burn-related accident is taking place at Molten Mountain today? Is Mark Dudley ordering a sammich in Iceburg? This idea of us showcasing various aspects of our world is quite popular, so I think it wouldn’t be jumping the gun to start looking forward to more of it soon!
I think it’d be cool to see little bits and pieces of Idenau.
But art like this works too!!!
(hnnngh little Skarva and his grandpa SO CUUUUUTE)
Here, have a bit of Idenau *hands you some dirt* and a piece *gives you a rock*.
ARGH I know, I just couldn’t resist drawing this. He still loves his grandpa, you know. He just gets impatient with his wavering sanity. And the Second loves his grandson… for the longest time, he never thought he’d have one unless he could break the curse. But life has a way of working out, imperfectly…
All right! Time to make my own Idenau! *arranges the rock and dirt* ;w; It’s beautiful!
And d’aww. Even when cursed, people can love the sharky-Skarvas. That’s kind of sweet.
(CAPTCHA says ‘residence: arashoo’. You now need a place called Arashoo in Idenau. XD)
Sounds like somebody sneezed…
NO WAIT!
I’M ALLERGIC TO ADORABLENESS!
NOOOOO
this is so adorable ;w;
(rdscus storage)
[img]http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/s458/Nathaniel_Jensen/sharkva.png[/img]
I made that for everyone that was lacking their daily Fourth entertainment.
(I am no substitute, but…)
Im not sure of BBC works on WordPress so just in case:
http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/s458/Nathaniel_Jensen/sharkva.png
Mmmk, so it dosent work. Just click the photobucket link…
…The last comic. Well that wasn’t very hard.
BAHAHAA you are so silly
Tender family moments aren’t entertaining enough? :< Now I have to try and figure out what comic that particular eyebrow combo is from.
Not this one; too much purple
Its from Mondays
Yep, I got it!
Regarding the page: D’aaawww… That is very sweet. ^_^
Regarding Courtney not feeling well: Aw, I’m sorry to hear it. *hugs her* I hope that you feel better soon. ^_^
Regarding the update schedule: I think that switching to two days a week, with a possible minor update on one day, as suggested, seems like a good idea. As to what that minor update might be, hmm…
I do echo the “show, don’t tell” concern that was mentioned in reply to a suggestion above. That said, I’d like to support some of what has been said above, I think: more about Idenau, in general and in specific might be fun, as might side-scenes from places already visited. If you get lots of questions, you could always answer some of them in these updates, although that might be better kept to separate sections, if used at all; I fear that including questions-and-answers in a regular spot, spaced amongst the standard updates, might affect the sense of flow.
Otherwise, you might come up with a little side-character and produce little, often single-panel vignettes regarding his (mis)adventures. Perhaps a less successful hero, possibly seeking to emulate Blank, or a thoroughly incompetent villain. (For one thing, it might be interesting to see a dungeon, and especially Skärva’s castle, successfully repelling a hero.)
For inspiration, let me suggest a look at what El Goonish Shive and Snow By Night do:
The former has a Sketchbook section, not uncommonly used either for filler or, as you are proposing, as part of the update schedule. These seem to include pretty much whatever the artist wants to put in there: character sketches, teasers, coloured comics or panels, amusing sketches that he came up with, etc. He doesn’t seem to include question-and-answer entries, which seem to be confined to their own inter-chapter blocks.
( http://www.egscomics.com/ – see the “Sketchbook” button near the top; I think that mention of the update schedule should be found in comic commentaries over the past week or so.)
The latter has an “Almanac”, containing various pieces of information on the setting. On Mondays and Wednesdays the comic updates, which Fridays bring an Almanac update.
( http://www.snowbynight.com – Note the update schedule and links on the right.)
(Wow that ended up as a long comment. ^^; )
DAAAAAAAAW
a filler suggestion?
i say daevus/ektaaw gimmicks
xDDD
defend terin
I would never get tired of that, but I think Victor would make me stop