No, the site hasn’t gone dead. Short version of the long story is that I just don’t have the time I used to have. Believe me, it blows. However, I *am* working on stuff. Hopefully this will mean new comics sometime in the near future.

There are also other things going on with the site. Namely, I’m working on coloring in the comics. All of them. This understandably takes a while. Not only are they getting colored in, but I’m doing minor touch-ups to the line art. Nothing serious, mostly just tweaking levels and adding/deleting lines to keep characters a tad more “on model”.

Right now I’m about half-way through “Under Fire”. It’s getting worked on first because I tried starting from the beginning and quickly realized the early comics were going to take soooooo much more work (all the dialogue has to be re-written, for starters). So, I’m working backwards.

In summation: I’m working as hard and as fast as I reasonably can. Please be patient/thank you for being patient.

Okay. Enough shop talk. Otakon is coming up in a couple of months, for anyone who is interested in such things. I’ll be going, as usual, and will be running my MM RPG Friday and Saturday night as usual. There hasn’t been any word yet if there will be a MM panel this year, but the Ota-staff already said they won’t be announcing the panels until next month.

Back to business. I will probably rearrange the archive so the sheep comics aren’t right in the middle of the story. However, that might take a bit. I’m working on coloring in the old comics. Who knows how long that’ll take though. It took ten hours alone just to get them ready to color (i.e. adjusting levels, splitting into layers, etc.).

Another problem is figuring out what to do with the lettering in some of the very early strips. Besides some eye-bleeding spelling errors (errrfgh), there’s the fact that a lot of the dialogue isn’t very readable. Actually, some of it is completely illegible. …So it has to be re-lettered, but I don’t want to do it in a way that’ll stick out too much.

Obviously I changed my mind on some of the coloring and details. I’ll go back shortly and fix the previous page.

Anyway, sorry for updating in such an irregular manner. Things are extremely busy on my end right now and what little spare time I have is going towards things like updating the link button (see, not as crappy as before!) and laying out future comics. (You want more comics, yes?) Things are starting to calm down so hopefully things can go back to a more regular pattern.