The Shoes Have Spoken

Sorry folks, I’ve got quite a bit going on the next couple of weeks so I’m going to have to announce a hiatus on Hands Up. By that I mean I think it’ll take me another fortnight or so to release another page. I do have #11 laid out, I just need time to clean up/render, time which I really don’t have at the moment.

Don’t fret, I love writing Hands Up like a lot of you seem to love reading it – judging by the positive feedback so far. I do have at least one and a half more characters to introduce who I think kick ass in their own quirky way and I’m really looking forward to getting to those skits. I have about 9 more skits written which I’m happy to move forward with (and about 10 rejected skits – I’m very finicky when it comes to producing quality writing. I don’t believe in fracking around by publishing half assed skits). Shooting for a total of 20-25 pages for this “first season” or whatever you’d call it. Consider this a (sort of) mid-season hiatus? Like how Dr Who is on an oh-so-hatable hiatus. I know, I hate hiatuses. This makes me hypocrite and so be it.

For now the shoes have spoken and they say if I don’t get back to what I should be doing, I can’t buy them. Which means terrible doom. My feet will have to settle for what I already own, which would be blaspheme.

Till a fortnight (or so) Adieu!

Hands Up #010

Yay double digits worth of pages!! *Sigh* how do other webcomickers keep this up?

Anyhow, this was one of those pages I really pushed myself… which is probably why it took an extra week (in between finishing off some freelance work.) Someone remind me not to do another scene on a rooftop ever again if I can help it.

I haven’t solved my computer issues yet. It’s slow but it’s coping somewhat for now. I am planning to get my laptop serviced some time next week but I have to figure out if I can work around some new exciting freelance work starting next week. (Otherwise I’m gonna have to cross my fingers my laptop behaves for the next few weeks!) So regrettably, the outlook for a release of Hands Up next week is not looking 100% – so apologies in advance if I don’t release but will shoot for another page within a fortnight.

So I first learned this fact about the Sun a year ago. Yes, I lived in a reality where the Sun was made of burning gas up until I was 23-24 or so. Until I heard this song: Why does the Sun Really Shine by They Might Be Giants – on a wonderful podcast “It Might Be Science” by WNYC Radiolab. I like plugging Radiolab. Makes me feel smarter.

I always get paranoid I’ll get facts wrong with something I publish. But anyway, who knows. In 10 or so years they’ll probably say the sun isn’t only made of plasma but a large percentage of dark matter too or something. Oh well.