I’m not dead. It’s just the summer.

Before and after pictures of “Justine Tyme’s Extra Adventures: Game Over” (as always, click for bigger)

OHKAY, I’m “sorry” for not updating in weeks. I’ve just been so “busy”. Well, really I’ve just been trying to have a summer. I will start up again this Wednesday with a new page, and hopefully my absence will be forgiven. I haven’t been totally inactive drawing wise, as you can see above, I’ve been working on a separate Justine story outside of this first online volume.

This new bit of fun was originally a 24 hour comic (a 24 page comic written and drawn in 24 hours). The art was a bit rushed because of the timeframe, but the story was explosive! I liked it so much, I decided to re-draw it. So it’s kind of like a 24 hour comic, but not really. The result is the best B/W work I’ve done yet. The story is the first in a series called “Justine Tyme’s Extra Adventures”, a run of short non-cannon tales based in the Justine universe, with no effect on the main story. You know, like a Simpsons Halloween special. This first punch of extra adventures is entitled “game over”, and sees Justine and pals load into a virtual reality world of video games. When it’s done, I will get the PDF online as a free download. That’s right, you can just download it and read it. For free. Simples.
The print version will also be available at future conventions, see tab to the right >>

Which reminds me, long ago, before “Tards” (my first crappy comic) was even an idea, I drew “Haroldinium Comics” Some artwork from which can be seen above and below. I’m mentioning it because “game over” was the name of one of these comics, where the books characters entered a virtual reality world as well. I’ve always liked this concept. It was also the idea behind a web comic I did, which followed the adventures of two guys that found themselves trapped in a video game world. Maybe I’ll dig up this festering corpse of a plot device again in the future, who knows.

So, to recap: New Justine page this Wednesday and back to normal after that. All new “Justine Tyme’s Extra Adventures: Game Over” as a free PDF, coming soon enough. Peace out, and come back soon!