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Swords, Sorcery, And Then Some!
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Swords, Sorcery, And Then Some!
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To be honest, Scott … I doubt that.
Sorry to divert the comments section but as part of our crowdsourcing our archive diagnostic project, if you could read the twenty or so pages from the page “Princess Peonie”via Comic Rocket and then via the site itself and then tell us what you see, whether there’s any difference or not, that would be much appreciated.
http://www.comic-rocket.com/read/exiern/208
(use the arrows as part of the Comic Rocket toolbar at the very top of the page, not the ones below)
and
http://www.exiern.com/2010/06/17/princess-peonie/
it not pink, it lightish red, hehe
“Hey, Donut! They have a color for lightish-red! It’s PINK.”
Actually, light red does not come out pink. You actually have to reduce the amount of green for it to become pink.
Sorry for the late response to questions and for going to the latest strip, but my reply is more likely to be seen here.
I’ve been reading Exiern for a long while now and the main reason I visit the site these days is to use the link to Blooming Faeries. I confess I am coming here because I’m too lazy to change my bookmarks.
There is a world of difference between slow paced and tedious, this arc is the latter.
I understand there is a reason for this exceedingly slow pace but in near six months two things of interest have happened. Even if we were on the twice a week schedule that was meant to have been followed, that would still be a dull progression.
It’s been mentioned that it’s hoped that next year will be a lot better because of the break, as will and money was running out…NEXT YEAR?
Sorry but I find it hard to see how if money was dropping, while the story was slow but interesting, taking a nine month break is going to help.
Is there going to be sufficient will and finance to build the strip back up to even the point from where the break from the main story started?
OK, I’ll try and answer as much of this as I can. Hopefully, I’m not saying anything that Scott will mind. As you (collectively) may or may not know, I’m relatively late to the scene. You can even pick the moment I found this place in the comments sections back in August 2015.
You can also find in much more recent comments how I got involved in behind the scenes stuff (short version, basically I dropped Scott a message and asked him if and how could I help and so I do some things with the logistical side of all this).
I think if this arc had been able to go up at its originally planned pace, it’d be over now. I’m quite sure it’s well past the halfway mark. As for where the money comes into it, it goes something like this.
Right now, the current battle behind the scenes is to keep Exiern at once a week, never mind more than that (which we really wanted to do as soon as 2018 but have to put off for a bit – but hopefully not cancel!).
As for the money, it went something like this. I’m not meaning to blow my own horn but I paid for this arc. As in, all of it (what you’ve seen and what you’ve not yet seen). Not surprisingly at the relative stages of their respective careers, Antipus costs more than Colin at present (and I haven’t even touched on what the exchange rate is between our respective countries).
Now, thanks to this, Scott’s been able to both build up a buffer (and save some money!) and can keep things at 1/week for long enough that I think we’ll now have time to work out a way to keep it like that.
So, I guess another way of putting it is that the will’s certainly still there with lots of plans afoot. I mean lots of them have been quietly appearing piece by piece (we started small to try and not overextend ourselves in the beginning) like getting a new Top Webcomics Incentive up every month for Exiern and Dark Reflections. Finding new artists, doing the VDSD and Top Webcomics Valentine’s Day competition, that sort of thing.
Suffice to say there’s more things in the pipeline with the intention of the overall trend being bigger and more ambitious over time. This is a plotline from 2008/9 and we all know there’s others. I don’t actually know any more than the rest of the audience but I imagine the intention is to deal with those too and faster at that.
What I do know is that this has been invaluable behind the scenes – first and foremost as a circuit-breaker and with everyone having recharged physically, a buffer for the first time since forever (this and the main plotline) and actual money in the bank to be spent on stuff, the point about 2018 and beyond is that I think things will be much more smooth and efficient now that a lot of things have been sorted out – a process that is also still ongoing as we speak.
To try and answer what I think is your most immediate question, since the main storyline ended with a literal cliffhanger (and a bit beyond), I imagine once it starts up again, we’ll be thrown right into the middle of a big fight and go from there pretty quickly to transforming were-bears on the high seas going by what Scott last said.
So I guess what I’m saying is that things are looking good for 2018 with not just the main storyline of the main webcomic but a whole lot of other things as well which come next year will hopefully start progressively coming online from then as well.
Come to think of it, how does she expect payment?