Well, it looks like it’s been a while since I made my weekly accounting to you kind, kind Patrons, but I wanted you to know that even if I haven’t updated you, I HAVE continued working diligently at it, since our last visit!One slow-down element these last weeks is that my website was hacked over Thanksgiving break, and viewers looking for my site were re-routed to porn video game pages instead! I (hopefully) caught on pretty quickly, but it took me out for a few days. Even after getting up and running, I still had some bugs (and still do!) that needed (need) fixing. Super-indebted thanks to Tabloia’s tech-, marketing-, and “other-” fix-it-” fellah, Wayne, for helping with all these issues.
Despite this…
For YOU kind $7 Patrons, I’ve posted some “Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist” clips, including a second OSCAR and BORIS video, as I drop them off at pre-school, and great interviews with my best friends, THOMAS JANE, TONY MILLIONAIRE and LIAM SHARP , AND SAM KIETH going up this Thursday (keep your eyes peeled on my “Diary” index page. If you’re not a $7 Patron, DON’T WORRY! I post a new FREE video every week too, just for YOU!
As for the Doris Danger web comic, I’ve put up Chapter Seven (including plenty of $1 Patron script and commentary, $4 Patron high res and screen saver links, and $7 Patron video bonus material).
This Chapter Seven contains the first published appearance of Three Star Private Buck Mercury. It was important to me to have this chapter included in the semi-interactive web-comic, because VOLUME THREE – “MORE Doris Danger Giant Monster Adventures” – really focuses on Buck, and I’ve started posting the full color VOLUME THREE! I’m not far in yet… yet! (A half dozen pages, only three of which are the actual comic, and no bonus features… yet!). But it will just bulk up from here, and at last, Here we go!
Speaking of posted web comic pages, if you find any humans unmasking to reveal they’re robots, and then you click the “first robot” navigation button, it will take you to a secret UNLISTED ROBOT page! There are a few little surprises here and there, like this, for those of you that care to take the time and poke around on your own.
Some other bonus features I went back to previous pages and injected:
– A gorgeous pin-up of the hand of a giant monster by Russ Heath, including an excerpt from my diary on the years-long difficult experience of trying to get it from him,
– A new PUBLIC video discussing how comics or tv shows when I was growing up weren’t read or viewed in chronological order – you just watched what was on at that moment, or read what few issues you’d picked up,
– A new PUBLIC video discussing feminism and Raiders of the Lost Arc in Doris’s VERY first appearance in her first issue’s first page’s first panel.
I’m still working, and I’ll try and shoot you a note again as I get more fun material up and running for you at the website! Please keep poking around there on your own, and enjoy!
Chris!