Staccato

Yes! Still alive! I mean you probably knew that… it’s not like Halolz stopped updating or anything. But still I kinda fell off the radar there for a bit… really no idea why. I guess after ConnectiCon and Otakon I just got plain ol’ burnt out. Those two conventions really take it out of me, and I certainly put a lot of pressure on myself when they come up. And really this year I have to… I get more sales at Otakon than any other convention I do each year, and right now conventions are my only real source of income.

I know, no one really cares about this stuff… and I don’t have any great excuse for not getting the strip started up again like I wanted to. I really have been thinking about it though… specifically how I want to do it. Part of the problem is that I’m leaning towards using a blogging platform where everything is sorted by date… which is very incompatible with my desire to rearrange and restructure the archives in a non-date oriented way. Also, as a guy who uses Wordpress 2.3.3 every day to update his busiest site, Wordpress 2.5+ just plain ANNOYS me. I think there are others like me out there, who just can’t stand this clumsy interface. Word on the street is 2.7 will be changing it up again, but honestly my gut is telling me if I’m going to use Wordpress anytime soon here I need to downgrade to something I don’t HATE using.

Again this is all web talk I doubt anyone is actually interested in. Lets get into actual strip stuff…

It might interest you to know that after kicking around some ideas in my head, I’ve come to the consensus that to do a relaunch right, I need to start from the very beginning. I’ve thought about it, and there are so many good reasons to do this. First it solves archive dating issues because the strip would start “from scratch”. Second, I think a restart provides an excellent opportunity for me to improve the overall writing and development of the story, and since it’s been sooooo long since the strip was really rolling no one really remembers what (if anything) was going on when there WAS a story. Ideally I’d like to follow the archives as a pretty strict guide… in some ways the story will return verbatim… in some ways characters and plots may be extremely different. I think doing this might actually be fun for people who actually followed the strip back in the day, people may be surprised at what changes and what stays the same.

Anyway this is what I’ve been thinking… thoughts are always appreciated but honestly I think I’m pretty set on this idea. Honestly I think my biggest hurdle is just getting the website to function the way I want it to, but of course, I have to remember that like Halolz, it’s better to get content flowing than worrying about the site design…

So anyway that’s what’s up with the strip right now. I did get a little artistic last weekend though… I was able to throw this together:

I have New York Anime Fest coming up this weekend, and one goal I’d really like to stick with is doing a new piece of art for each con I attend. I feel like at least that way I’ll be able to force myself to do some more artsy stuff, which I WANT to do, but sometimes it’s hard to get done when you don’t have specific deadlines set.

Anyway I’m really happy with how this one came out and, if you couldn’t tell, I’m pretty in to Castle Crashers at the moment.

Well this post is getting a little long, and it’s friggin’ 5am (yay insomnia), so I’ll cut off my ranting for the night. Oh I did want to mention I FINALLY signed up for Twitter, so feel free to add me if you’re down with the Mircobloggin’. Expect plenty of Sophie related updates! >__>