AAAAAAND WE’RE BACK!  The start of a whole new year of Far Out There, and on lucky page 1300 no less!  …which makes me kind of wish I’d been able to plan out something a bit more thought out than this.  Aside from the fact that I would’ve loved to so SOMETHING meta about a page number like this, but also didn’t want to burn our first page back on something that didn’t advance the plot… there’s also the fact that the plot meant doing a fake-out gag with A WHOLE MONTH’S BREAK in the middle.  Yeah, the whole point of introducing Stilez fighting the food monster was to comically cut away right afterwards to Avi being a little brat.  It’s already the kind of gag that would work better if I could get back to the twice-a-week schedule rather than just one, but having the punchline land after SO much other stuff feels… wrong.  But, I mean, I can’t exactly go back into the past and add one or two extra comics into October or November to change where I am now (though WOW that would be an awesome trick), and I’m generally trying to stop needlessly dragging the pacing out any worse than it already is.  I guess what I’m saying is, I’ll always feel like I’m falling short of how that amazing 2014 cliffhanger turned out without me even trying.

But yeah!  I’m easing myself into a regular schedule again for the new year.  I don’t have any convention trips on the horizon for a pretty good while, so the goal is to get caught up on various other side-projects for a while.  Preferably during this brief window of post-Christmas come-down, when doing one page a week still feels like a luxurious break and before it goes back to feeling like a frantic scramble again.  Speaking of which, if case you missed it, a new TWC Voting Incentive went up a bit late last week, but it IS there, and a new one should be up on Friday… and I think it’ll be the last one in this “Stuff That’s Canon” series!  Meaning I need to come up with some NEW gimmick before next week!  WHEEEEE!

EDIT: Oh yeah!  I should really mention to anyone who missed it that an extra New Year’s page went up on Monday!

1/6 EDIT:  Well, it did indeed take me longer than expected to get done, but the last “Stuff That’s Canon” Voting Incentive IS finally up!