Hey, comic is finished, everything is good to go, but there's a small issue with the time stamp preventing uploads in the year 2009. Dave will sort it out when he has the chance. Was able to trick it, so problem is not fixed but, hey, it looks fixed so that's all right then.

Welcome back! An extra-special labor-intensive background as the next scene takes place in a dark room made of black foam core (yay!). And there's a rather predictable visual gag in that third panel that might be had to see in the comic because the size has been reduced. If you want to trying finding it on a larger size, please feel free.

My New Year's resolutions for the comic include:
1) Finish Chapter Six and the first half of the story by July.
2) Get the first 75 strips edited, redrawn, and ready for the printer's by October 1st.
3) Learn how to draw the crotch on men and women so it isn't HEY! LOOK! A CROTCH! THERE IT IS! THAT'S A CROTCH! RIGHT THERE! Honestly, I'm working on this one but it's harder than it sounds (no pun intended).
4) Stop mentioning food in the strip because I start to crave it.

See you guys tomorrow!

Here it is, and goodbye to 2008. I know it wasn't good for a lot of people but it was extremely good for me, and I hope next year will just be generally great all around for everybody.

This will be the last of the rebooted strips for a few weeks, I think. I have the line art for the next four strips finished but the backgrounds don't want to exist in any dimension that is comprehensible to the human eye, so I've reached "Screw It!" capacity. I'm glad people seem to be enjoying them - I think they are a nice alternative to the normal filler art or dead air. The next batch will go up in about two weeks, as I'm out of town for a weekend, and probably after that the next batch will hit around Valentine's Day.

I'll spend the rest of this week and next mailing out the line art and prints to the donors (thank you guys so much!). Have a good, safe New Year's Eve and I'll see you all back here on Monday.

Extremely happy with the art in this one, mainly because it's hard to hang an ass in mid-air and not make it look like it's supposed to be all HEY-O!

Might end the redone strips after this scene. In the next, I wanted to have them sitting at one of those restaurants with all the goofy crap on the walls and the mozzarella sticks but that ain't working out and it's working its way towards a stark minimalist sushi fusion bistro.