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So just an update on stuff.

As you know (or may not) I'm currently moving the comic from it's current Comic Genesis location to a new home at Comic Fury. There are many reasons for this, chief amongst which being the increased options available at Comic Fury in regards to domain names and HTML and the like.

The current Comic Gen site is not going anywhere, nor will it change - I'll use it more as a mirror site after getting the CF one properly set up, so for the time being at least use the CG site as the main one.


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I've sketched out mostly all of them so far (still have an extra slot if anyone wants one - tell yer friends) with only the detail on RJ's still needing work (it's yer damned dreads man - theys hard to get lookin right)

I'll be starting inking and colouring them over the weekend, with them set to be done by next weekend. Hopefully no-one is upset by the length of time taken, as that was one of the primary reasons for me doing the test run.

So...yeah....back to uploading nearly 500 strips manually...urg...

So it's the end of another glorious storyline and time again for my somewhat self-indulgent analysis of it.

As per usual with me, the ending shown was not the original ending written when I started the story - this is a very common thing with me, in that I do edit the scripts while I produce them. Indeed, the last three strips were rewritten pretty much a day before I started them. In the original ending, instead of the strip focussing on Jess and Reuben after Pytor leaves the story was originally going to cut to Isabel over-reacting to being shot in the tail and believing she was dying a "hero's death" until Reuben arrives and mocks her  for being so dramatic, then compares her to Captain Ahab before they chastise her for being reckless.

This I changed for a number of reasons, chief amongst which being that it's kind of against Reuben's nature to gloat over someone getting hurt, even if that animal is Isabel. Also, I feel that Isabel is not the sort of animal to let any wound be the end of her – she's more like the Black Night from Monty Python's Holy Grail, constantly coming back for more despite bits being hacked off.
Also the whole side of Isabel's story is already obviously  an Ahab parallel so actually referencing it would be a redundant piece of lamp-lighting so I changed it to a much more "Woods for the Trees" ending where Isabel somehow manages to avoid learning any lessons at all despite the fact that her arse will now make metal detectors beep whenever she's nearby.

So away from the storyline, this was also an exercise in how colour affects the cartoon. And all reports are good. I think I've developed a "style" now that's pretty easy to do fast (I can colour the strips in about an hour if I concentrate and don't fuck about) and personally I like the style of the later ones.

So there you go, a storyline I'm pretty bloody happy with all things told as it leaves possibilities and advances some of the characters a bit. For example, we now have the possibility of Pytor being in future strips, and we also learned about Bosco's sexuality and Jess's genuine respect for Isabel's abilities as a wild animal.

We've also learned that I write too much waffle on journals….


Like Woods for the Trees? Check the latest cartoon here - www.woodsforthetrees.com - Do it or I kill a puppy with a hammer.

Developments have developed, leading to me deciding that what I'm about to say is a good idea (Jaysis I hope it is) - I'm going to (In the coming weeks) open limited slots for commissions....maybe like 5-10 or something...I'm new to this so I don't really know how it works.

Also, dunno how to accept payment from people, or even how much to charge for what. So the following would be my price list based on what I've seen others doing...then deducting some money from it because those artists are talented:

Inked character with no background - £2.50
Colour character (includes shading and gradient background if wanted) - £5.00 (additional characters +£1 each)
Full colour pic, with full colour background - £10 (additional characters +£1 each)

Also, just a quick point - EVERYTHING I draw is based on the rule of "Would that appear on Futurama?" - ie, I don't draw anything of a sexual nature.


So....right...there we go. I have no idea if that's too expensive, too cheap, or Goldilocks porridge territory and NO we're not open just yet.

So yeah, I'll be opening the slots themselves up soon - maybe next week.

Any thoughts?

Heelo there boys and girls, Roofus here of course. Now, you may have noticed one of two things on your daily travels to Woods for the Trees because you're obviously such an avid reader that you can't have missed them. The first is that we've started a new story (with bears!) and the second is that I did not update last Friday.

"So what?" I hear literally no-body ask before the elaborating further, "You miss update days all the time and we don't care. In fact, we love you more for it because absence makes the heart grow stronger and your lacklustre attempts at regular scheduling gives us the horn."

Well, you randy bastards, in most of those times it's because the strip isn't ready for any reason from not having enough time to complete it, to simply forgetting that I'm a cartoonist and going down the pub or playing Planetside 2....the latter happening with startling regularity that is evident from the simple fact that my comic's updated twice this year so far whereas in the same time-frame I've gotten my New Conglomerate engineer to level 21.

But NO! This time it as different! This time I HAD a comic ready to go, all inked and shit.....but my scanner (which will from herein be refereed to as "Fuck-ass") decided that it had decided that the two short months spent with me was more than enough and committed hari-kari.

Literally. Puff of blue smoke and a short. Now usually this would've made me take to Twitter in a second to proclaim the manufacturer a dick, but Fuck-ass was still well within it's warranty so I was sent a brand new scanner. Same model. Same exact everything.

Now dear reader, is when shit gets weird. I know about USB, I know about models being locked to the installation software they came with....so I decided that rather than confuse my computer (Shitboxington III) any more than it normally is just by being awake that I'd install the original software that came with Fuck-ass. I then repeated the installation but for some reason the driver wouldn't work. Tried Fuck-ass's disc....nothing but a standard "Failure to launch" cut and pasted box....I was disheartened, I was confused....I was desperate.

I RTFM.

Turned out that Fuck-ass was never supposed to even work with Windows 7. The model is XP/Vista only....so I installed the Vista driver and it works fine....I can't but wonder at why that worked....or why Fuck-ass worked on the computer at all....did Windows 7 kill Fuck-ass?

SO MANY QUESTIONS!!!!!

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