Hey folks... so as I'm sure you've noticed, comics have been kind of not happening too regularly over the last few months. Things in my personal life, getting used to new medications that still leave me a little sleepy some days, and a persistent cough that's keeping me up at night have left me feeling creatively drained. To make things more complicated (and I'm sure is in relation to the previous listed issues), I'm having a lot of problems writing the current ND arc. The best way I can sum things up is this: the story is like a huge rock tied to my waist. I can walk around and it go as far as my leash allows me, but I'm still stuck to it and I need to deal with it before I can move forward. This has kind of caused all my creativity to be blocked, which is hurting You Say it First and .net's comics as well. Everything I've been writing has been pretty much unusable at this point. So... I think I need a small break- not a "I'm going to make comics up later" break, but an actual break, with sketches. ND.net comics, however, will be made up. I've post-dated sketches into the comics's archives (.net will come this weekend) and there will be sketches up next week- so at the least there will be something. I'm going to aim for just one more week of sketches, from there I'm just going to admit defeat on the problem topic and do some drastic retooling- if after all this time I can't write this story arc, then it just doesn't want to happen. I'm really sorry for not posting about this sooner, every day for the last two weeks I would hope that would be the day I came out of this funk and scripts would spill out of me, it's happened before... it's just not happening now. I try to be stubborn but I think I need to admit defeat and see if a little relaxing will help things form in my head clearly. I'm really sorry everyone... I've let you all down, thank you so much for putting up with me and my delays. For those who left, even know this won't reach you, I am sorry you gave up on the series, I hope you'll try it again. For those worried that I'm going to never pick up the comic again (and have doubted in the past)... and I say this with all the sincerity in the world... Dude, I've been doing web comics for almost ten years- do you really think I'm going to stop any time soon? It's not going to stop happening.
In happier news... .net wallpapers are now up, I owe the biggest thank you to all you .net people- hopefully I can get something nice done for you all during my week(s) off!