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I realized as I was lettering this the line she's talking about here, that he said "not long ago", was said in 2019 Earf time, and I almost couldn't crawl back out from under the desk.

But anyway back to updating in under a weeeeek

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Zoom. I may go back, honestly, to a page a week though and .... [I can hardly believe I'm typing this and believing it as I do] rebuffering. 

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Happy Twosday. 

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Hi-res for patron pleasure. 

2. Sun Prairie (Next Town Over the Novel chapter 3)

Hunter was of the opinion all these Midwestern towns looked alike and for the most part Sun Prairie didn’t do much to turn him from this line of thinking. Indeed, it was very like Lookback: another little huddled main street afloat in a yellow ocean of grass, though this one perched on a short bluff overlooking a valley ful...

II. Watering Hole (Next Town Over the Novel, chapter 2)

The Hunter ranch was hardly more than a homestead, really; they sold very little of their beef and occasionally one of their fancier-looking colts and mostly just made do, but they did have their own brand—the Tumbling JHH — and could afford to pay a ranchhand and his daughter, who mostly helped out Claudia Hunter and loo...

1. Lookback (Next Town Over the Novel chapter 1)

It was early evening when the big gray stallion crested the last ridge before Lookback, a small but clean cowtown at the floor of a gentle, wide open valley: the easternmost fringe of the western wilds. This was the first place free ranging cattle had been in evidence, wandering and foraging the rolling, grassy drumlins among...

The NTO novelization blazes back, yet again, along with the new site and hopefully a return to something closer to normalcy

Starting in September, I started picking at the NTO novelization. Again. I love writing, way more than I love the work of drawing if not sequential art, and the fact is I functionally quit prose writing almost 10 years ago. It is so fun, though, and I love it. 

Longtime Patrons will recall that twice (more?) I have...

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Here ends book 12.

Principia Alchemia: an Excerpt

The not-quite-diagetic facing page from the most recent comic. I wasn't sure if some lorem ipsum might be too recognizable at various resolutions so I ... improvised. 

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A mere two weeks later!

You may be interested to know that the next page is the last in the chapter, after which begins #13: the last.

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The [Deeply Overdue] Book 11 Cover

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I’m overdue to make some kind of blog post addressing the state of  the comic and I, and a new year seems like as good a time as any. Scroll  to the bottom line if you’re not interested in what will probably  amount to a blow-by-blow of 2020.

First of all let’s not mince words: last year was a catas...

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Still here! Almost made it through 2020 and I hope you have, too! 

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Year End Billing Freeze

Hey guys! While your October pledges have just processed (thank you!) I've decided to freeze Patreon billing for November and potentially also December as well. This does not mean I've given up on updating the comic during this time; I've just been grappling with your pledges being predicated on 4 NTO updates a month + extras...

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