Exiern

Last month the ESCarchive had an exclusive soft-launch of Strips #1 and #2 of a new four-panel comic, HELD WITHIN. Today Strip #3 is now available!

HELD WITHIN is drawn by the amazing W. Wondollar, and the story is based on a book I wrote about a college girl who…well, let’s just say that once things get moving along there will be lots of magical vengeance! HELD WITHIN updates the second and last Wednesday of every month.

HELD WITHIN is part of my overall plan to create ongoing and regularly updating original content in the ESCarchive. Before anyone asks, yes, DARK REFLECTIONS is part of that plan and although we are one step closer to getting that underway I still don’t have an ETA on it yet.

My hope is that more exclusive original series which feature their own mature content, like DARK REFLECTIONS (once it is set up), HELD WITHIN, and the upcoming PROJECT: iSIS (shhh…it’s a secret), will begin to make the ESCarchive more independent from its previous heavy reliance on EXIERN nudity. It’s a great support system that has really done the comic well for a long time, but I don’t want it to become a crutch. It’s my goal that when T&A appears in EXIERN it’s because it was right for the story, not because we had to pay the bills.

Is this plan a little naive of me? Perhaps, but I have the opportunity to try it and we’ll see what happens.