Well, I’ve been without a buffer for a little while now, and my life is about to get pretty hectic as I move to a different city. The website is overdue for some updates anyway, so for the next few months I’ll be putting any artistic energy I have into making site improvements. And if that amounts to no energy at all, so be it.

I’ll be back in January!

Part Eighteen starts here. That’s the last full chapter I have, which means next week I’ll start posting weekly pages. That also means this will probably be my last news post for a little while.

The easiest way to keep up with updates on this site will probably be RSS! See the link toward the upper right. I’ll post something if I decide to start using some social media, but for now that’s all I’ve got.

The comments are always open if you have any feedback regarding the site!

Part Seventeen starts here! I’m about to add previous chapter/next chapter buttons just in time to not need to post links like this anymore. I kind of like including them anyway though. :>

Been bouncing around between various things, including some coding like the chapter navigation I mentioned. As I make progress on inking Part Nineteen I keep changing my mind about how it should end so I’m less close to finishing than I thought 😡 I’m getting there though!! Having almost a whole chapter of buffer ready to go is good enough anyway, I think. I just need to quit stalling on making more progress on Part Twenty. Which doesn’t even have a title or cover image yet. @__@

Just a couple weeks until I switch to a page a week schedule!

Part Sixteen starts here! The start of book three, and I haven’t even posted the book two cover yet ;__; I won’t say “soon”, but it won’t be TOO terribly much longer…

I try not to write actual pages too far in advance, but I’ve been musing about general plot elements pretty far in the future. There’s scenes I’ve been seeing in my head a certain way for a while that I’m reconsidering whether they make sense given some Big Changes that have happened to the comic since I first came up with them. I’m still trying to keep most of my focus on the immediate next pages to draw/ink, but it’s kind of fun putting in a bit of foreshadowing. But scary because then I’ve committed to that thing.

Part Fifteen starts here. Last chapter of book two! I sure haven’t prioritized making the print version available, but maybe I’ll get my act together someday. I need to dust off the cover image file and see if I want to use the original drawing or just start over, lol.

I’m running out of sketched pages to ink so I’m having to make story decisions again >:C I wonder if I can get to a place where I can keep up with CM pages more comfortably and reward myself with some side comics. Either my own or with a writer…? I’m just musing to myself, I don’t have anything particular lined up. Possibilities for the future!

Part Fourteen starts here! It’s a weird one (The Weird One?) but I think it was a popular one as well, haha.

Back in the day when I got way ahead with sketched pages, I used to redraw lots of panels during inking phase that I had sketched weeks/months prior. I think I was prepared for that to happen so this time there are lots of panels that are very rough so I don’t feel bad about redoing them at the last minute… But I still feel a bit weird when I make big changes to pages I thought I’d “finished” sketching. It’s making inking take a little longer, anyway. I hope I can reduce my perfectionism as I get further along.

Part Thirteen starts here. One of my favorites, though it makes me feel like a bad person saying so lol. I’m oddly happy that my bulk uploader worked in catching that there’s a double-page update in this chapter.

I keep flip flopping between wanting to ink more and wanting to get further ahead in thumbnailing, and it’s making me slower at both. I gotta commit to making some progress in one or the other this weekend.

There’s a few other things demanding my attention lately too. I’m hoping to post some non-comic-page art in the not too distant future. Also working on some secret projects I’ll be able to announce soon >:3

Part Twelve starts here! For some reason I keep mistyping the word “twelve” so please let me know if you see any typos lolol.

I’ve been reorganizing the site code to try and separate the CM-specific stuff from what someone else might need to make a similar comics site (or me, later, who knows). I don’t have any neat features to share yet but might be getting close!

Part Eleven starts here. The first (maybe the only?) chapter that needs a violence warning. :C

I’m reaching a point where I’m pretty much guaranteed to have Part Nineteen done by the time I run out of previously completed chapters to post. I still think I want to post those pages one at a time though, just because…. they’re new pages, I want them to have a spotlight ;_; It might be painful going back to reading one page a week, but I hope it’s not too bad. Also I need to stall before I’m ready to commit to a title for Part Twenty lolol.

No site updates ready to announce yet, but I’ve done a tiny bit of coding too. Maybe I’ll have some to share next week!

Start reading Part Ten here!

As expected, I’m getting tripped up with toning lately. It’s the least time consuming part of the process except for the fact that I keep going back to previous pages to try to figure out how I did certain things and checking notes for which tones to use–things that I could mostly do from memory before. ;( I feel a little silly about it.

Inking is the opposite though, it takes me a long time but it feels like I’m back up to speed. Hoping to keep this momentum going!