Irisia

Page 9 is now uploaded. We are trying black gutters with this page to see if that helps the lettering blend in better.

I’ve only had an hour or so to dabble in ME2 so far, but from what I’ve seen this game looks like it is going to be a blast. The mission format really makes the game feel more accessible to people who just want to pick up and play it for an hour or so and still want to feel like they are making progress. The game engine is also beautiful. Dragon Age didn’t look bad, necessarily, but it does when you compare it to this game.

Finally, GRRM made a few misleading blog posts about his upcoming book Dancing with Dragons. I’m not going to speculate on whether or not these comments were intentionally misleading, but one would think that a writer would understand the importance of clarity. Posting a picture of the book with the words “nuff said” underneath can easily be interpreted as “I’m done.” If you compulsively check his blog every day you could probably put two and two together and realize that he was referring to the fact that he finished a hard Jon Snow chapter, but not everyone does that.

Page 8 has been uploaded! I hope you guys enjoy it. I think Kenny has done a particularly great job with this one.

We are on the new server now, so browsing the website should be a much more pleasant experience. I have done several things toward this end:

1. Faster host
2. Optimized the image size of the comics (they were 700k each and are now 200k each)
3. Properly configured Wordpress caching plugin

You will also notice that there is a character page in the overhead menu now. Going forward I will be adding characters every so often. Some weeks more than others. This should help you keep track of who is who as you are getting into the story. I will also provide character design sketches in the future, so you can get a look at Kenny’s creative process.

If you can see this post, then that means the transfer to our new server is complete!

Happy New Year, everyone! Page 7 is uploaded.

At some point next week we will be switching webhosts. Godaddy is just not fast enough. The new server has a good reputation for hosting Wordpress blogs, however, so hopefully that will improve the speed. I have also started to optimize the images of the site better to decrease load times. Hopefully with a few more tweaks everything should load nice and quickly.

Made a few quick changes to the layout. There is now a super spiffy blog roll on the right side, but more importantly there are first and last buttons under the archive drop down on the left! I think you are smart enough to figure out what those do.