Irregular Posting Is Likely To Continue For A While
As was mentioned previously, the stuff that is taking up some brain cycles continues. It’s been light posting of and it’s not done yet. Fortunately, it is the depths of summer when very little new is going on.
But that is not to say that nothing is going on, and we have some quick hits from some familiar names.
- Item! Flash sale over at Iron Circus. In honor of Friday the 13th, spooky books are 30% off until midnight CDT today. Stock up while you can.
- Item! It’s been a quiet time for new work from Howard Tayler since Shlock Mercenary ended its 20+ year run, unsurprisingly. But he’s always been more than just a comics guy, and one of those other areas is to the fore presently. Tayler is Kickstarting a new edition of XDM: X-treme Dungeon Mastery, with words by Tracy & Curtis Hickman, illustrations by Tayler, and cover color/additional interior illos by Jim Zub.
It’s not a new printing, it’s a new, reworked edition, and it’s available until the campaign runs out¹ in four weeks. Three days in, it’s about 95% of the way to a generous US$50K goal, and the FFF mk2 says it’ll end somewhere around US$130K – US$195K. Maybe. The Fleen Funding Formula, Mark II is pretty good with [web]comics projects, less good with others, particularly games related. We’ll see.
- Speaking of Jim Zub (we were, he’s right there two ‘grafs back), he sent around an email pointing out that he’s still sharing his knowledge, and giving even more advice at his Patreon which he is considering renaming to … Zubstack.
James J Zub, I want you to go sit by yourself quietly and think about what you’ve done. We will not even discuss how you ask visitors to your YouTube channel to watch, like and Zubscribe. Bad Zub, bad. No prize.
In all seriousness, Zub’s got the proportional drive and smarts of a comics-writing spider² and if you’re making comics, you should be following his voluminous advice closely.
Okay, let’s his the weekend. Hopefully things will be less like they are on Monday.
Spam of the day:
Just a heads-up that I believe the word “tate” is spelled wrong on your website. I had a couple of errors on my site before I started using a service to monitor for them.
Ignoring the fact that tate is not a word, you are correct in that is not spelled correctly. It should have been taint, as in you damn spammers can snort my. Taint, that is.
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¹ And, presumably, some day at conventions if we ever get those again because people will not fucking get vaccinated or wear masks and I’m starting to have to take in COVID patients again and godsdamn are we stupid as a society.
Not that I am bitter.
² Just work with me, okay?
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