Announcements and stuff!

02 Jan 2012 11:01 am

I Say...

Hazumirein says,

Alright! So, now that scribbly MS Paint Riza has gotten your attention (don’t have PS installed on this new laptop yet), first off, again, we are DONE with the second volume of DC! Horraaaayyyyy! :D

Not that the volume divides really mean much other than giving me a way to break up the story into nice little chunks, and to give me reason to pat myself on the back every few chapters, but hey :P

But, more interestingly than the volume thing, on January 12th, DC will be celebrating its fifth anniversary as a webcomic :D I went with that date because January 12th, 2007 was the day that I put the first page of the comic on DA for the world to see, haha. To say the least, it’s been an interesting few years. There was a lot of arguing with my family that the comic was actually important and that the mass amount of time I was spending huddled over my computer was justified because people were actually reading the pages when they went up. I imagine that will continue until I move out. There’s also been a lot of telling my friends/classmates to stop hovering over my shoulder when I’m drawing and asking me what I’m doing and why I’m doing it like that and making weird comments on it so I can give them semi-logical answers (“Why is he bald?” “Because I haven’t drawn the hair yet.” “OMG, is she naked?!” “No, the clothes aren’t done yet.” “Why does that girl have ears?” “To hear with, duh.”). But that’s okay! Because I am determined to finish this comic regardless of what anyone else thinks it’s worth. That, and I love you guys and your comments and such brighten my day <3

Anyway, in celebration of the fact that we’ve got two big accomplishments at the same time here, I’m planning on two special celebratory events. Listen up, and save these dates.

Saturday, January 7th, 2012, 2:30 PM EST: Page Creation Livestream.
That’s right. Assuming I can find some software for it (I should really look into that, huh?), I’m jumping on this livestream bandwagon and will be doing the first page of Chapter 15/Volume 3 live on the internet for you all to watch. I don’t think it’s that exciting to watch me draw, but all the people that have been looking over my shoulder my whole life seem to think otherwise. I’m basically giving you permission to do that. It usually takes me 7-10 hours to get through a page, so this will pretty much be going on all day. I’d start earlier, but I’m rarely up and ready to accomplish anything before 2 anyway XD. Plus I figure if any of you guys are on like, the west coast, it’s still not too early. But in between drawing I’ll probably be chatting with you guys and subjecting you to whatever music I’m dancing in my chair to at the time (not that you can’t just mute that, but still). This is a good time to get any technical questions about what goes into making a page answered. I mean, I’ll probably answer whatever, but I will be mostly focusing on doing the page. I haven’t decided on a site for this yet; I’ll let you know and post a link day of. I know of a few; I’m gonna try to find something that doesn’t require you to make an account or anything because that’s dumb :P If all goes well with this I might make it a more regular thing.

Thursday, January 12th, 2012, 8 PM EST: Live Chat Party Thing.
Come talk to me! I’ve finally got a new laptop with a working mic and webcam, so I can do that thing where I can just chat with you guys and answer questions by speaking instead of typing everything. Granted, this is probably dumb because I’m way more articulate in text than in speech, but still. This is the time where you can ask all your questions about DC and the characters and story and world and all that fun stuff. Odds are I’ll start rambling and let some stuff slip that I probably shouldn’t tell you yet because I’m stupid like that. I’ll probably give some details about what to expect from the next volume and what’s to come in general. And there may be other interesting news mentioned, and I may have some ideas I’d like to discuss with you all to see what you think. But really, I love talking about the comic, so please, ask away. Or really just talk to me in general; I’m lonely. If I can I’ll try to get Mel or maybe Aiden or someone over here to help out, and we can all just have a fun internet party celebration thing.

So yeah! Save those dates! Be there or be square! Or, you know, not, because most people probably have better things to do, but still. Also, by “there” I of course mean in front of your computer screen.

…Please don’t make me talk to myself all day D:

But hey! I love you guys! You’re awesome and I’d probably not have gotten this far without you. Here’s to another volume, and another five years! Look for the Chapter 15 cover on Thursday. Until then, Question of the Update: Do you see potential flaws with these plans? Something I didn’t consider? WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?! D: Also, will you actually try to stop by and say hi at either of these, or will I indeed be talking to myself?

Meanwhile, I'm probably going to go play Skyward Sword all day in celebration. Later kids.