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0/25/2010---

If you don't want to hear my excuses, you can skip ahead a paragraph or two.

HOKAY. SO. The short version of what is going on is: Having two jobs sucks. The longer version is: Having two jobs really REALLY sucks. Basically all the time I do have off is most often spent at home sleeping and this summer has been jam packed with crazy traveling up and down California because I moved to Southern California and all my friends are in Northern California and keep doing crazy stuff like getting married. Also, one of the two jobs has a completely different schedule every week and sometimes has me working one or two days for four hours and other times has me working 8 hours on weekends and closing at 1am before going to the other job at 8am. Now that the supervisor is back and things are apparently less dramatastic in middle management, hopefully I can get that scheduling fixed.

Ultimately I have decided that it will be best to resume the comic in the fall, after spending half of August traveling all about for a wedding 7 hours away for which I am a bridesmaid. Hopefully by this time, I will have either convinced my manager to give me a more consistent schedule, or I will have gone completely batty.

Okay, start reading again, now it's stuff you might actually care about.

The OTHER big news is, when MannaQuest returns it might start over from the beginning. I didn't want to do this before getting through volume 1 at least, but I have decided to rework the first few chapters into a more condensed version that will be less drawn out. With this decision made, there will now be fewer pages to draw if I go back and start over then if I continue on with the unaltered version. Hopefully now that I have gone from zero experience of comic drawing to 27 pages of experience of comic drawing, I can go back and do it better.

Until September I will be updating the site and doing redesigning and hacking away at code (with a chainsaw! yes indeedie.) and hopefully I will be able to post character sketches and art for the about section and other such lovely goodies as that.

Thanks for bearing with me!

---Azura