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Interlude (2)
 
Monday — October 6th, 2008

‘FIRST DRAFTS’
Due to the temporary incapacity of my drawing hand (see ‘News’ post below for the full explanation), I’ve had to find some filler material that didn’t require being created from scratch.
So, I though you might be interested to some of the pre-history of Lights Out!. Posted over the next week or so will be the first six strips I drew for the comic. This was before I had any such advanced concepts as ‘character’ or ‘plot’. They were simply to get down on paper some gags I had for this ‘end-of-the-world’ comic idea I was knocking around. Eventually most found themselves intergrated back in the comic proper, but it’s kind of interesting to see them in their raw, free-form state.
If for nothing else than to see how I then realised the actual comic was going to have to be much more polished…

News

Finally Autumn…

…which means I have to put my slothful summer ways behind me.

For the past month or so, the comic been virtually running on autopilot (for various, very dull, reasons), which means I’ve managed to keep to my update schedule but all the extra features I’ve been promising were put on hold.

However, now that September is here, I plan to kick on and finally implement some improvements:

1. Firsty, and most importantly, the comic will now post three days a week (with a Wednesday update joining the existing Monday and Friday ones). This upping of pace will hopefully keep things more coherent as storylines become ever more involved, and there isn’t four days inbetween to lose track of them.

2. The RSS Feed is fixed!…and it only took me two months! Basically I did something very stupid and completely crippled the comic feed. Unfortuantely, though it was eventually a very simple problem, it took me weeks to actually track down the issue (Believe me, I never want to have to go through the site code line-by-line ever again). So, the subscribe button up to the right now has a purpose again. Feel free to click it.

3. The much-promised ‘Big Guide to Disaster Movies’ is nearly ready! I’m just giving it a final polish (and fact check), and hope to have it live on the site in the next fortnight. I’m rather excited by it, and look forward to lots of people disagreeing with my opinions.

4. And finally, an enhanced link section will be here before October, with links to movie stuff, not just webcomics.

Okay, I think that should be enough for now….