Okay, first off, did everybody remember to drop in Sunday to see the extra comic?  Because there was an extra comic on Sunday!  Because of COURSE I went ahead and posted an extra comic on a day that was already so busy that it made getting today’s comic done REALLY tricky!  These are the decisions I make in my life!  Well, technically I did get the page done “early” enough to actually queue it up in advance, so it was still “late” enough in real life terms to complicate everything else going on Sunday, so the mockery of my life decisions still stands.

Speaking of decisions, I’m torn on how this page turned out.  Part of me really wishes I’d split the comic in two: one page just of Tabitha getting the attention of Stilez and the Boys, so that we could see their reaction close up as well as hers, and then a whole second page for the bottom two panels so that the effect could be a lot bigger.  There’s two things with that, though, beyond the obvious “well then I’d have to start drawing the page all over again” defense.  For one thing, I really am making a conscious effort to be better about pacing the story to fit this one-page-a-week schedule, and that means speeding things up a lot.  Heck, even when we DID have two pages a week, Far Out There was still guilty of dragging things out too long, and cutting the release schedule in half is only making that worse.  I just don’t think spending half a month to milk the drama of Tabitha activating her trinket, to get to a gag that was already being set up LAST YEAR, is defensible.  And speaking of which… I don’t wanna go openly discussing spoilers for stuff that hasn’t happened yet, but come on.  If ya’ll have been reading Far Out There this long, you know how my sense of humor works.  You can make at least a educated guess at how the pay off of this gag will work, and understand how, in one way or another, MAYBE I shouldn’t allow the build up to lead any readers to have expectations they shouldn’t.  At least, not after we’ve already been playing at it for this long.

And speaking of things taking too long, time to place your bets again!  Who wants to guess how late the new TWC Voting Incentive will turn out to be THIS week?

EDIT: IT’S UP!  THE VOTING INCENTIVE IS ACTUALLY UP WHEN IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE! REJOICE AND BE GLAD!