02/08/08 – Few days til exam re-take XD
Work is now underway on the third and final part of the Eugene Manx story, which will temporarily leave the pages of the Red, White & Blue after issue 3. That will of course mean that the webcomic will cease updating for a time… but to compensate for that I’m planning on making some more "one issue a month" (hah!) Felney… at last! Also after issue 3 is "in the can" (there’s still much to do on it, mind) I’m going to finally start work on the definitive version of "The Gun". Watch this space! Or that space, rather. The Gun will come in two versions, a "family friendly" black and white print version, which will be akin to "War Picture Library", a pocket library comic from the 1950’s with an unrelenting grimness to it, and the "online" version which will be in colour and will feature swearing, blood and political content. Also there’s even a chance of Insanity Please and Agent Smoke seeing updates… I’m on a comic roll right now.
Onto website news, I’ve been doing a bit of tidying and general housekeeping. Mainly in the Agent Smoke and Eugene Manx pages. The Story Chronology has had tweaks too, as if anybody but me is even interested in it (oh well, it’s a handy reference for my own use). The The Gun section is next on the list for fixes and alterations. I’m also planning on uploading the un-coloured lineart from the two failed re-makes, so you can see the way the strip could have gone. The definitive version is considerably different, hardly recognisable, even.
After uploading the Insanity Please RPG (Critical acclaim from my mate Natasha: haha i played ur rpg omg, its so funny / ur such a nutter) I noticed a few bugs, for instance a completely pointless "car" (raft!) which appears on land but which can’t move on land. Version 3 ought to be out "sooner" than the length of time version 2 took to come out, though that still may be a year or two. I haven’t touched it in months but I was working on a very cool new aircraft chipset. However who can tell where my interests may lie in a few month’s time, I may be RPG-obsessed again and not delivering any comic updates… such is the way of my brain XD.