Okay, so my explanation for this page being late and half-finished is especially ironic: I’ll be out of town this weekend helping my brother move, so I’ve been trying to make sure the next couple of pages are done in advance to cover the absence. And honestly, I’ve been making pretty good progress. I’ve actually got NEXT week’s stuff penciled already, and I haven’t been that far ahead on anything in MONTHS… except, I got so into plowing ahead on the later comics that I actually ended up getting horribly behind schedule on TODAY’S. So, the next few pages are pretty much guaranteed to be up on time, since I’ll be posting them in advance, but today’s page paid the price for it.

It hasn’t helped that, in my zeal to get as much stuff penciled out as possible, I did a REALLY sloppy job on the line art, so editing is taking an awful lot longer than usual while I salvage things. Thus, don’t be surprised if you come back sometime tonight to find the art’s undergone some changes even more drastic than just adding some extra color and effects.

And man, I didn’t even manage to get today’s Voting Incentive posted until around 6am. That’s the one thing was actually starting to get on time with again…

EDIT: Well, the final draft’s changes were a BIT more subtle than I’d feared, but there’s still a few things to note. First off, take a good look at that snack machine Stilez is shaking. Assuming you DIDN’T tear the top off like a tin can… how would you actually get the snacks out? How would you even SELECT one? You gotta understand that the bulk of that machine was created in editing as I gradually changed the layout and moved Stilez around, so I was so busy trying to salvage the page as a whole that I’m only just now realizing what a useless piece of machinery I created here.

Also, if you want to see a little more of that monster graphic peaking out from being the text square, it’s actually a panel from a little comic I drew years and years ago. So maybe go check that out if you feel like it?

(Historical Notes: Now THIS is frustrating.  As if all the current website problems weren’t enough, that last line was SUPPOSED to be a link to a tumblr post where the comic in question was re-posted… except the link doesn’t work anymore and I can’t find the post anyplace.  I don’t know WHY I would have deleted it, but it’s gone now.  Well, that’s was one of the things I want to re-post over on blitzthecomicguy.com when I finish with THESE sites and can finally turn that into a general catalogue/hub for all my other stuff.  MAAAAAAAYBE I can remember to come back and add a link on this page when that happens… but it’s not very likely.  Oh, and you see those fake book titles, Past Me?  See how they’re perfectly funny on their own?  Yeah, you quit your whining.)