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The all caps is unecessary, but yes, I am back and here's what's happening, in case there's someone out there still following this for some reason:

I'm considering picking back up Bad Comics.  Megan Morrow has fallen through the cracks for now and I don't feel like dealing with it while I'm looking for a job.  I'm also trying to find work in photography because it will get me out of the house.  I've started a Soul Silver Nuzlocke and I want to incorporate the written narrative with the Emerald Run comic that I forsook some time back, which requires me to pick that back up again, too.  The positive thing is if I do start updating it again, then C F has to pick his HeartGold run up as well, since that was the deal we made a few years ago.  We'll see if he honors it.  

I'm also trying to get in with a newspaper near home - I feel like I could do journalism, even though I graduated with an art degree.  Some part of me likes the sound of it and getting to collab with people for a living would be more fun than breading chicken.  And it would encourage me to get physically fit.

What's provoked this sudden return?  While I've been struggling with my self-worth and not wanting to put effort into something that always has potential to go south, the death and apparent suicide of Robin Williams was kind of the kickstart that got me going.  See, if what I assume about his life is somewhat true, that even though he had a lot and was very successful, he was still unhappy, and that mounted on itself until he couldn't see the light anymore.  What I didn't realize until the last 24 hours is that I've kind of been in that way.  Not suicidal, but just stuck in a vicious circle where I want to do something, to make a difference, but I don't know how.  I've had three different majors, I graduated with a somewhat vague one, no one told me what I should be doing and the things people suggest are things I don't want to do.  I'm miles away from my friends and often feel forgotten because of it.  So I'm turning back to what I know how to do in the interim as a means to get going again, which is comic-ing for funsies and trying to be a positive impact on people and have some hope and joy while doing it.  I'm not going to care what people think about my work as long as it's making an impact.  


ADHD Version: I'm starting comics again, I've been stuck in a rut but I'm getting out.  No more vicious circles. 

So like, I've not made much progress in the ways of making moneys and getting my own place. Graduating's catapulted me into the winter months where not many people are hiring anybody. 
*sigh*

Yep.

I should be pencilling pages by now, but long story short it's been delayed by the fact that work worked me over for the entire month of June and all of July I was taking ceramics and sculpture classes at college to satisfy the 3D requirement for the degree that I will be receiving in December.  Ermagersh graduation.

So now the goal is to have chapter one finished by the end of next week.  And to have the pencils started.  

I originally planned to have the pages published on the web throughout the fall semester as I inked and coloured them, but since the pencils aren't started yet I might wait until after graduation to start publishing on the web.  Again, not what I want to do, and I have a feeling that publishing them on the web at the same time and acquiring an audience will benefit me more before I graduate than afterwards, in the long run. 

is now the working title and probably going to be official title of the webcomic I'm going to publish this fall.

I might still post a sketch occasionally before then but I will be most certainly taking a professional approach to this.  

Which means I will not be posting pages on DeviantArt.  I might do a teaser or something to try to herd people to the site, but the unfortunate thing is with the amount of inappropriate 'art' that floods through the front page (stuff not flagged as mature that should be - a problem that many people have tried to bring to the site's administrators but continues to be ignored) DeviantArt is not professional grade, no matter how much you make off prints or what-have-you.  In a sense it's really just Facebook for art, but that's not a bad thing.  I love seeing what other people are doing.  But I can't in good conscience post my new webcomic here.

In other words, it's coming along swell, and the details are beginning to be hashed out.  Characters have definite personalities and the story is coming together.  I'm itching to have more time to work on this, which will come after finals next week and my bro's wedding the week after.  w00t.