Hey everyone!

My planned post for today has been borked by technology, so instead, I’m posting the incentive comic from fall 2009. Did you miss out on them, way back when? Well, here they are once more. :) Ahh, such memories. I was in my first trimester of pregnancy when I made these, and living in a desert wasteland of nausea. I hope to do more of these little comics sometime–hopefully with all my body cooperating. What a thought!

To thank you all for your continued patience and good cheer, I’ll be running these on Tuesday and Thursday for the next two weeks, plus posting something else next Saturday. That’ll get us through all five incentive comics and the new year, and we’ll look and see where we’re at with starting Chapter Four! I’m having fun writing it and look forward to seeing how it turns out. :)

So, see you again Tuesday! This’ll be fun!

~ Rachel

Hi all!

Not too surprisingly, the comic will be delayed again this weekend, but we’re making plans for how to cause the least possible amount of annoyance with all this. Basically, the current chapter is almost over. We’re gonna finish it out as quickly as we can, and then take a break from the story to serve up some special bonus material for the remainder of 2010 (which will be a month or so). That’ll give Michael a chance to get stupid, get married, and get smart again as nature requires, and meanwhile I’ll hang out with you guys here. :)

So, what kind of bonus material, you ask? Lots of kinds. We have some pretty awesome developmental stuff from when we were first getting all our character designs worked out, including not only Michael’s first sketches but mine as well. And yes, if a character you haven’t yet met happens to appear there, we will be including her! So be ready for sneak peek or two. We’ll also have a special sketch post announcing the winners of the naming contest, since it’s obviously not feasible to use the comic itself for that announcement at the moment.

When the new year starts, we’ll roll right into posting Chapter Four. Can’t wait to see you all there. :) Thanks again for your comments and support! You guys are fantastic!

~ Rachel

PS. Keep an eye on the RSS feeds and facebook for the next update!

It’s simple enough: I’M GETTING MARRIED IN DECEMBER!!!! WOOO!!!!!

As you can imagine, theres a LOT of stuff to prepare. But worry not! Comicking will resume this saturday! =) Thanks for all the support! We love yoooouuu!

- Michael

Hi, everyone,

I’m afraid we’re gonna have another late comic this week. We’ve been struggling a lot with it lately, as you’ve probably noticed, so I just want to acknowledge it out loud. That way, you know that Michael and I know it too. We are going to keep working on this, and I expect we’ll pull out of this before too long. But yes.

Without going into boring details, I’ve been really sick lately, and Michael’s been crazy-busy with new (awesome) events in his life. We’ve been able to manage okay in the past when just one of us was overloaded, but with both of us out, it’s been much more difficult. It’s a good learning experience, though–hopefully next time life gets crazy we’ll have a better idea of how to deal with it!

Anyway. There should be at least a rough draft up by Saturday night, with the completed version as early next week as possible. Heaven willing, I’ll be feeling better soon and have more of a brain, and maybe Mike and I can do a few of our boot camp sessions where we hang out in person and get way more done. YES

Also, I never got around to posting the winners of the naming contest! I will do that halfway through next week. :) Stay tuned!

Thanks again a billion times for your patience and support and awesome comments! We love you guys!

~ Rachel

UPDATE: Due to further awesomeness in Michael’s life (more on which anon) and also a driving mishap, we won’t have lineart today, but expect the full page on Monday. Thanks for understanding! Aiieee!

All right! You’ve waited long enough! The comic I told you about ages ago is finally online!

So check it out right here.

…Oh my goodness. It is so boring and yet so incredibly silly. Also, as far as I know, it’s the very first comic Michael and I ever collaborated on. Three cheers for history, and thirty cheers for progress! I can now draw better than Michael could then. Haw~

Incidentally, does anyone want to hazard a guess about the true identity of the mutant pickle? :) I can’t decide if it’s totally obscure or totally obvious. The only way to find out is for you to tell me.

Speaking of using our dear readers as lab rats, there’s still time to enter the naming contest! Give it a shot for a chance to influence the comic and get an awesome sketch!

Thanks, everyone. See you Saturday. :)

~ Rachel