Part 2 – Chapter 6 – Page 2 – Red Moon Rising – a steampunk fantasy webcomic

We all need some sort of outlet for our frustrations, I guess.

Smash. I have to admit, considering I drank about eight cups of tea today, it was quite difficult to portray this senseless act of violence. RIP teacup.

So this is going well. —And we’re back! That was a longer break than I had anticipated taking, honestly, but I’m feeling pretty good for it. I think that’s the longest “holiday” I’ve had in a veryyyyy long time that didn’t involve being horribly ill or injured. Hoping you all had a similarly nice festive period and new year!

Hmmmmmm —The final page of 2016! I’ll be taking a small break over Christmas, but will see you all in January for, would you believe it, even more comic pages! Thanks as ever for reading, everyone.

In some alternate universe Ezius is definitely a stage magician.

This guyyyy. —No big news this week except that I’m properly moving the update day to Monday. My schedule shifted recently, so this seemed to make the most sense! The Friday updates were mostly happening on Saturday anyway, so this should help a bit.

Well, I guess it is kind of a broom cupboard. —Shoutout to my friend Erin! She’s currently running a Kickstarter campaign to print volume two of Next Town Over, her wonderful frontier fantasy webcomic. Working with Erin on the Poor Wayfaring Strangers anthology earlier this year was a delight, and I just cannot recommend her work enough.

And don’t come out until you’ve learned some manners. —I promise he’s not just walked into a broom cupboard. Anyway, we’re back! In retrospect I probably should have taken a week or two off between chapters as I usually do, but I guess I didn’t want to lose any momentum after the Patreon launch and things. Thanks for the kind words and emails, and I’ll definitely be pacing myself a bit more evenly in the future.

Hey everyone, sorry to do this so soon after getting the Patreon launched, but I’m not going to be able to get a new comic page done for this week. There were a lot of factors that came together to make it so that I just couldn’t get it finished, but honestly, I’ve been pushing myself pretty hard to get things done on time (you might have noticed updates have been happening on Saturday a bit lately), and I really just needed to take a break for a week to refresh and regroup. Turns out normal people really need weekends every now and then, go figure. Again, sorry for the missed update, especially to my Patreon backers. I’m working hard to make the updates as regular as possible, and things should be back on track for next week.

And how about that local sports team? —One of my favourite things about making this comic is coming back to characters after a while and getting to draw them again with all the neat new tricks I learned since they were last in the comic. And it’s been over a year since we last saw Galak! Not quite as long in comic time, at least. I’ll be getting a sidebar button thing for RMR’s Patreon as soon as I find a moment to make it, but in the meantime we’ll just have to make do with me bleating about it every week down here in the news post. Thanks again to everyone who’s chipped in. Finally, I kind of wish I could embed noise or sounds in the comic (as annoying as that would be in practice), because I would definitely jam this sandstorm noise over the whole story arc.