Chapter: Part 1 - Chapter 12
What the-
The end of the chapter? Could it be?? Those of you keeping track may have noticed this chapter started in January. Phew. While there’s been a lot of stops and starts with the updating I have to say, this was also just a bloody long chapter. And good news! The next one will almost definitely be even longer! Shoot me now.
In fact, the next chapter is actually the last chapter* of this whole story arc. Two and a half years, and things are finally going to come to some sort of head. Exciting, I hope.
On a more immediate note there’s going to be a week’s break between now and the start of chapter 14. A few reasons, but mainly my wrist is killing me and I’d rather not wreck it completely if I ever want to finish the comic. So I’m going to spend a bit of time either resting it or learning to drawing with my left hand. I also don’t want to rush right into the next chapter since, as I said, it’s an important one.
So! Thanks for reading, everyone. You guys are the best. I don’t think I say it enough but I’m very grateful to be making RMR and to have this kind of support. /6am soppiness
Chapter 13 starts on Monday the 8th!
*Note from the future: This is a massive lie since there ended up being two chapters after this.
oh, so it’s a thingy wotsit
carry on
I am knackered
that oughta shut her up
Phew. I suppose it’s my own fault for thumbnailing an 8 panel page but this still took forever and now my wrist is sore. Even my anti-RSI software is flashing angrily at me to stop working. Everyone’s a critic.
And I kept forgetting to post this – apologies to Iz Elliot who did some cracking fanart and sent it to me like two weeks ago. The moral of today’s post is that I’m an idiot and Iz is cool. Thanks Iz! 🙂
Edit: Oh right, I made a Tumblr. For tumblin’, I guess? I’m using it to post up sketches and page previews and junk at the moment, so if you like my art or something crazy like that you may want to check it out.
Hey, it’s that guy! In the comments section on the previous page I may have suggested that I killed Galak off while no one was looking and that he was never coming back. That was a typo. My bad!
Slightly late again, but I come bearing wallpapers this time! Wallpapers of dour people against dramatic, vague backdrops. So I assume we are cool. *fistbump*
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Updates! Terrible late updates! I’m doing my best to keep on top of all of this right now, but the site’s mostly working and Monday’s update will actually exist next week.
You guys down in the comments have been super swell! All the small things people have done to help out have been really great. For people who have been asking if they can do anything to help out, I don’t have a donation button (yet, it will happen eventually) but if you have an adblocker, if you could add my site to your exceptions that would help a lot.
Ads provide the only revenue I get from Red Moon Rising, so if you have them blocked I’m actually losing money every time you visit my site due to hosting costs. I also go out of my way to make sure all the ads aren’t dumb pop-up or rollover things that play sound (if they do, let me know) plus the site is set up so the comic page loads first, so I don’t think it should affect your reading experience at all. And don’t get me wrong, if you don’t want to unblock ads that’s also fine! But it would help me out.
And in the meantime I was on a podcast.
Right. Ok. So!
Some of you may have noticed that the site got hacked again last Monday night. Some of the WordPress scripts were being dicked around with, so my host suspended the site and strongly advised me to update WordPress. Unfortunately when I made the site about two years ago (after the first one got hacked, I guess I never learn) I coded the CSS rather badly, so when I had to update WordPress (and subsequently the Webcomic plugin) I basically had to remake the site from scratch. Yeah, whoo
So really it’s half my fault, half whoever was screwing with the site. Though I feel I made up for it by spending 24 straight hours Monday through Tuesday coding to get everything (mostly) working, and then maaaaannny more hours since then. Especially on god damn Saturday when the site broke again for a completely different reason, which turned out to be entirely my host’s fault. Complete waste of time.
Anyway, as the message above the comic says, some stuff is still broken, particularly the secondary pages (About, Cast, etc.) and the archives page is especially broken since all the links to individual comic pages have changed slightly. So I’ll… I’ll have to manually update each of the 226 links in there. This is after having to reattach over 150 comic pages to their respective individual blog posts when the WordPress upgrade made them randomly disassociate. I’ll get on fixing the archives when my soul is feeling a bit less crushed. The actual comics are working now, though. Page 74 went completely missing for some reason, but I re-uploaded it this morning and it seems to be fine.
The favicon seems to be working very sporadically. I have no idea what to do about this? Bear with me.
Also the Sage Comics ribbon that was in the upper left is just gone. I lost the code in this whole mess and I don’t have any way of retrieving it. Sorry Sage guys. :/
On the plus side… ??? Er… well, there are now navigation/archive buttons above the comic as well as below. I hope you all enjoy those, they better be worth it
And after some creative coding by my buddy Greg, the pages should load noticeably faster. If there’s anything else really messed up about the site feel free to mention it in the comments. Rest assured, I am/will get right on working on it.
Oh, and I drew a page.
In which Adrianna inadvertently gets hit by one of the oldest tropes in the book. And that is some terrible fire safety right there, let me tell you.
Whoo, backgrounds! This page was good fun. I’m having a go at inking backgrounds and I think it makes creating solid environments a bit easier. I tend to leave things a bit foggy and wishy-washy when I only paint the backgrounds. Here’s the inks for today’s page for any interested parties. Yeahhh, check out those god damn crates you guys
Also, my buddy Drew finally made a reality of the obvious crossover that is Red Moon Rising and Futurama. Fire INDEED hot.
Also also, there’s a new vote incentive! For propers! It’s an inked section of one of the wallpapers I’m working on right now, featuring Renshou (who shall be popping up again in the story very soon).
Fire hot. D:
Added some wee button doo-dads down below this, for easier access to my meagre amount of scarcely-used social networks and what not. I’m not that good at internet. Probably more notable is that the TWC vote button that used to live in the sidebar is now down there too. I think this will be more of a factor if I ever change the vote incentive. Plus I finally (after forgetting about it for about 7 months) updated the archive page. I’m not sure anyone cares, but I’ll just sit here and feel accomplished nonetheless. That probably sums up this whole news post, really! Just trying to clean up the site a little.
Also, I should hopefully have some wallpapers to share in the next week or so, including the window-smashing one since that seemed to be a popular request. I’ve got a couple of ideas for things I want to draw, but if you want any specific art from the comic wallpaperified now’s the time to let me know!
In which Bracken channels Spike Spiegel, and Samara still doesn’t like guns very much.
I keep thinking I have news and then drawing a blank for the news post. Oh well. It’ll come to me.
Edit: Just remembered I didn’t actually have news at all, but I did want to complain about having to draw so many stupid hands in one page. GOD THIS IS A TERRIBLE NEWS POST*
*Note from the future: This is definitely a terrible news post. Also, what is up with Bracken’s fingers in that second panel? They’re like crazy long alien fingers. I must have gone a bit mad from drawing too many hands.
Oh hey, it’s that guy. They look totes pleased to see each other. Ol’ buddies, maybe.
I have a feeling this is one of those pages that doesn’t look anywhere near as tricky as it turned out to be – lots of foreshortening and other nonsense. Clearly every page should be someone jumping through a window because that page was easy. oh well