In which Our Hero is ridiculed and punched in the face.

As you can clearly see, for the foreseeable future there will be some major gaps between the posting of pages. Nothing like the several-month gap between #48 and #49, but big gaps nonetheless. I suppose the only thing that would speed things up would be, oh, say unemployment striking again. Maybe this time it wouldn’t put me in such a soul-crushing funk and I could actually get some work done, try and crank the dial up on my skills, work on being a better artist for those of you still out there following Scwonkey Dog in spite of my low productivity since I moved. Of course, I’d rather not have to test that theory.

Hope you enjoyed this page. The next one’s going to be the big single-panel chapter title page, so it shouldn’t take nearly as long.

–Jonathan

In case you’re reading this on some sort of feed reader … thingy, I’m not sure if it’s told you, but the first new page of SCWONKEY DOG since Wizard World Chicago is now up! Visit the site and take a look!

If the feed thing IS working … err, disregard this message. Yeah.

Later!

–Jonathan

Just letting you know that, in order to raise some funds and clear a bunch of stuff out of the house in preparation for the big move in early July, I’m parting with a bunch of my worldly possessions on the eBay — old He-Man figures, Transformers, Gundam stuff, other random action figures, import video games, comics, and so on. Take a look and see if there’s anything you’re interested in, why don’t you? It would certainly be appreciated!

–Jonathan

… I would like one of these production companies to acquire the rights to a fantastic property that’s been done BEAUTIFULLY in comics and animation SOLELY so that someone ELSE doesn’t do something STUPID like ACTUALLY MAKING the inevitably awful live action movie.

NOTE TO SPIELBERG AND HIS ASSOCIATES: YOU WILL NOT MAKE A BETTER GHOST IN THE SHELL THAN THE TWO STAND ALONE COMPLEX TV SHOWS, SO YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN’T EVEN BOTHER.

YES, I KNOW I’M YELLING. I HAVE TO. IT’S THE ONLY WAY ANYONE WILL HEAR ME.

In other news, two pics penciled and inked this afternoon. WOOT! I just hope tomorrow night I’m not up ’til four a.m. again coloring ‘em …

Sorry there’s been no material this week. I feel terrible, like my head’s been stuffed full of cotton; Tuesday, I even went home from work because I was feeling dizzy and nauseous, soooooo … yeah. I penciled in the first few panels of page forty of our ongoing adventures sometime last week, but I’m really dissatisfied with most of the artwork so far — one or two of the panels are OK, but … you know, I don’t want to force any of the art out. If I do something, and it turns out bad — or at least not to my satisfaction — I’m just gonna have to draw it over. And I just don’t know that with this weird fuzzy feeling I’ve got that anything would look any good. I’m gonna try and get rolling on a lot of art tonight and this weekend, but … we’ll see. I still want to get all this done before spring break; that’s still the goal. But we’ll see. Really, most of my time has been spent sleeping and watching Transformers music videos on YouTube and playing Another Century’s Episode 2 — the Battle of Saturn’s Rings from Macross comes off kind of strangely when you’ve got the three pilot girls from Nadesico battling the Battlepods; for some reason they didn’t give me but one Valkyrie for that stage. So, huh. But anything of a creative nature? Hoo boy, no, my head’s a little too cloudy to get any ideas out.

Funniest thing I’ve read all week: this tongue-in-cheek article on manga reviewing at the Otaku USA website courtesy of Jason Thompson, author of Manga: The Complete Guide. I swear, I keep thinking I really need a subscription to Otaku USA … it’s always full of neat stuff like that.

So I wake up this morning and find that the site is down. Like, really down. Like, the entire page has vanished from the internet. *POOF!* And it was about an hour after I finished the new page of story & art, which really ticked me off. I tried to get in touch with my hosting company, but to no avail. Their phone numbers — ALL of them — were busy all day long, and their help desk could only be accessed from inside my account, which required the site to be up & running. Nice!

Consequently, I decided to dump ‘em and move the site to a new host. I spent my entire day off — the roads outside were icy as all heck, so I didn’t have work today, thank goodness — copying data over, once I figured out how to break into my account at the old hosting service. I’d been planning on switching hosting services sooner or later anyway, since the old service’s musty old database software couldn’t take advantage of the most current version of WordPress, which meant I couldn’t use the most current version of the ComicPress template — and believe me, after playing with the newest versions of both all evening, I realize just what I was missing.

But now here we are, operating at about 95% at the new digs. The only thing that isn’t working right now is the Feedburner feed, which keeps insisting that, “The domain ‘www.scwonkey.com’ does not seem to exist.” Right. Well, if it’s not one thing, it’s another. So I set up some alternative feed buttons that may or may not be useful to you. Resubscribe through one of them, and I’ll see if Feedburner decides to play nicer later.

Since this notice comes so quick on the heels of yesterday’s post, which has only been up and running for a few hours off and on anyway, I’m going to reiterate two things:

1. For the next page’s posting, I’d like to take the opportunity to answer a few questions. So everyone, ask away! Ask me anything! Please!

2. If you’d like to give back in any way, clicky-click on the little “vote” button for the WebcomicZ listing site. It’d be appreciated. Not something I’m gonna harp on going forward, but y’know, creative types need their egos stroked every once in a while, especially when they feel like they’re shouting into a vacuum.

And now, I think I’m gonna start drawing that next page. I’ll see you all sometime between Friday night and Monday afternoon.

–Jonathan

P.S. Huh. This was the first time I wrote a non-comic post, so I guess I didn’t have to say all that stuff again — it just goes under the earlier post. Interesting.