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CCXCII: If Only You Knew the You That I Know

on June 21, 2021 at 4:00 am
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Thanks for reading “Double Date!” Chapter 14 will start in 2 weeks. Next week, I’ll post the cover.

Cass finally feels “complete” to me. The character has evolved through a wild journey and tough situations both life-threatening and banal, none of it by her own agency. She didn’t want this form and she certainly didn’t want to go through these past 13 issues. Starting here, she’s taking that agency back.

The collar-with-tag started as a tongue-in-cheek accessory in her original character design. (Check out this old deviantArt pic to have a look at that!) When I started drawing the comic I thought it would be thematic for her to start with a regular choker and then add the tag after gaining her animal traits, as a way to show her embracing her form in a sort of ironic way. But she never really embraced it, so there didn’t seem to be a proper time to introduce it early on.

Eventually I got the idea that it could be a present Noah gives her, which would give the tag more symbolic meaning. That’s when I introduced Cass’ distaste for labels, making sure to write a conversation in “I, Abomination” where she talks about this with Noah. After that, I waited until there was a good opportunity for Noah to give her the tag. But, as with most of my long-term ideas, it took a backseat to the school hijinks in the back half of Phase Two, so their relationship didn’t progress as quickly as I expected.

But they got there eventually! Where does Cass go from here, though? Non-spoilery answer: wherever she wants to!

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Chapter 12 Creator Commentary

on May 31, 2021 at 1:59 pm
Posted In: Site News

In lieu of a new comic this week, I’ve uploaded a new commentary video to YouTube. This one is for the previous chapter, “The Mother Trilogy.”

I say at the start of the video that this won’t contain any spoilers for future chapters, but at one point, I accidentally mention the premise for Chapter 13. It’s not a major spoiler, but if you really don’t want to have any idea what Chapter 13 is about (if you somehow don’t know already), you should make sure to read at least the first few pages of that before watching this.

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Update Schedule – Now With Quarterly Breaks

on May 19, 2021 at 1:58 pm
Posted In: Site News

Moving forward, I’ve come up with a way to give myself consistent, scheduled weeks off (as opposed to trying to put a page out every week and only delaying it when I crash). I’m going to try sticking to the once-per-Monday schedule, BUT for months that have 5 Mondays, the comic will skip the last one.

That starts now, which means there won’t be a comic the week of May 31.

There are four such months per year, so that rounds out to a week off each quarter.

That will allow me either a break if I need one, or I can try to get ahead on the comic. It’ll depend on how I feel at the time. Since it’s pre-planned, there’s no guilt attached. And the comic will still consistently update 4 times every month.

Plus, if I can stick to that schedule (barring unforeseen circumstances that would force another hiatus), Phase Three will be finished by late 2022! Going by page count, we just hit the halfway mark. “Double Date” closes out in June, and Chapter 14 will roll out over the second half of this year.

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Page 282 Coming April 5

on March 27, 2021 at 1:39 pm
Posted In: Site News

After another week of high stress and overtime hours, I’m taking this weekend to rest. The next UTC page will be posted on April 4 for Early Access patrons and April 5 publicly.

I was trying to push this page out on time and THEN take a week off, because it would have been a better point to pause the story, but I really just can’t get it done right now. The mystery in Flint’s backyard will have to hang in the air another week.

Thank you, and I hope you all have a great weekend.

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Page 280 Coming March 16

on March 13, 2021 at 7:52 pm
Posted In: Site News

I’m going to take an extra day finishing up the next page. It will go live on Tuesday.

I realize delays have become a common occurrence. Between my day job getting more stressful and all of the ongoing, you know, things, I’ve been prioritizing giving myself downtime without then punishing myself by staying up half the night drawing. I feel as long as I can average four pages a month, the comic is in good shape.

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