What up, Blue Crew?!
It’s been a while… okay, a really long while… but as you can probably tell things are almost back to normal. I don’t like to be that person who makes excuses but I figure after about a year of being on hiatus you guys deserve to know.
Basically: the original short hiatus turned into a longer hiatus cause everything around me in the real world went crazy. Not crazy bad, but just crazy hectic. I ended up moving to St. Louis (finally) and of course had to change my job. Economy sorta made that hard and I went through a couple of jobs but I have a really good/solid job now and thats (of course) great! My old computer that gave me trouble constantly finally died, but I was able to get a new computer which is a large upgrade for an amazing sale price. To my surprise, the website got hacked, but it was my wordpress not my actual site. So, I lost all the old blogs and pages but no real damage was done – and even better that gives me a reason to redo the site and tweak it up a bit. Which it needed.
If you can’t tell, I’m pretty optomistic about things right now! I’ve got comics ready to go, and the sites just about ready too, and Brian Sparks and I are gonna record a new So Like Duh tomorrow. Of course I’ll also be making Chug-A-Freezes and I have a surprise or two planned along the way! But, the comics come first!!
To that end: allow me a moment to talk about the comics. I’m going to start off on the old Monday through Thursday schedule with 4 new comics a week. I did consider a full 5 day schedule like I used to do with WTH but I decided that I’d be better off keeping simple at the start to get back into the swing of things. Later in the year -IF- I get enough of a buffer I feel comfortable then I can always go up. I don’t wanna start high and then pull back. You guys deserve better.
So, when does it all start? That is a great question! I would love to say I have the exact answer but I really don’t. I was planning for Monday the 10th but it may have to hold up to another week. I want to make sure the site is 100% functional and at least 30% visually correct. I’ve gotten a lot of help from Phil who’s a master at ComicPress to get the site back together. Somehow in the year of not doing CSS I’ve all but forgotten how to write CSS. Weird that. Trust me though, between Twitter and RSS and everything else I’ll let you all know the minute I get new comics out. Whether it’s Monday, Wed, or even next Monday after that. (It shouldn’t be any later then that though.)
So, to sum up: thanks for sticking around and thank you for being patient. Everything will get rolling again soon though and I hope you’re even half as excited as I am. Cause I’m really exicted. MEGA really excited.
