page 885 – That Went Well
Tabitha has clearly chosen a course of action that will provoke NO emotional reaction from Layla whatsoever.
So… Oh boy, what explanation do I have for THIS page being so late? Did I somehow get behind schedule on a Conventional Wisdom update BEFORE I even went to any cons? Did I somehow come down with week-late Thanksgiving overeating symptoms? Did my computer finally just burn down? Well, would you believe I spent yesterday dragging logs around? That’s not a weird euphemism for… I don’t even know what. No, I actually spent a good chunk of Monday picking up big, heavy tree parts and tossing them into a big pile. Apparently I needed to balance out all these weeks of sitting at a computer drawing funny cartoons with THE MOST MANLIEST THING I’VE DONE ALL YEAR… and to the surprise of no one who’s actually seen my physique, it absolutely DESTROYED me. Even now, it genuinely hurts my arms to operate a mouse and keyboard. Such are the wages of rugged manliness, I suppose. Needless to say, I was exhausted last night, and when you factor in the amount of sleep I ALREADY haven’t been getting thanks to all the upcoming Christmas pages, I just passed out before this page was done.
Speaking of which… HOLY FREAKING CRAP IT’S ALMOST TIME FOR THE YEARLY CHRISTMAS COMICS TO START. That’s right, kiddies! Starting this Thursday, the regular Far Out There story pauses so we can have TWENTY-FIVE STRAIGHT DAYS OF FULL COLOR CHRISTMAS COMICS!!! …so I guess I should really get around to drawing some of them, huh? I’m kidding, I’m kidding… sort of. I HAD hoped to have a lot more of those comics done by this point than I currently do (the plan had been to work on them right around the time that Conventional Wisdom and the Artist Alley stuff was going pear shaped) but I DO have everything written, a majority of them already inked, and few even colored and ready to post right now. So if I really burn the midnight oil (and don’t take any breaks to play lumberjack) I should be able to stay ahead of everything alright.
It DOES mean that I don’t have a new Voting Incentive today, but that shouldn’t be the case for the rest of next month. I always try to have SOMETHING to offer for those of you experiencing holiday overload, so new Incentives should keep happening every Tuesday and Friday. Just keep an eye on the comments for further announcements.
Well, I’d better get back to work, Thursday will be here before we know it…
(Historical Notes: I’ll hold off on the remarks about THAT intended cliffhanger until it actually happens, but MAJOR reader points to Ed8 for one of the most amazing unintentional predictions in Far Out There history. This is the reason I keep having to play it coy about potential spoilers, because ya’ll keep managing to figure twists out without even trying! …I mean yeah, I did telegraph things a BIT in the comments, but not THAT much…)
Unintentionally accurate predictions are the best kind of predictions!
Now I just have to figure out where I can spend those reader points at….
Check the Reader Points exchange rate first to make sure the market hasn’t crashed
They exchange for more than Internet Cookies now? Since when, and how long did it last? On the plus side, at least they have stopped the Virus & Malware Ad’s & Options for “extra income”.
I’d make an additional joke, but I keep my Ad Blockers cranked all the way up on so many sites that I honestly don’t know what the current spam ad cliches even are right now.