We’re going to keep on hitting the accelerator a few more pages.
To add, on top of potential changes to the dialogue is that there could also be changes in the art when these pages are eventually finalised.
But for now, we’re concentrating on just getting to you all as much of the story as possible as fast as we can for the next few weeks at least.
OK, as you might have seen, we tried something and it didn’t work out as intended. So to make up for the story in effect stalling, we’re just going to get the drafts for the next few pages made as quickly as possible and publish them in that form. We’ll have to fix them up later.
So, I guess we’re going to be hewing closer to the kind of pages that Misfile published (though theirs weren’t quite so drafty) and did you like how I made a play on the Prodigy’s Music for a Jilted Generation album title?
No? Well, there’s a reason I don’t write Exiern and Dark Reflections: Chaos writes itself, I guess …
The new Exiern Shorts feature starts today on the Patreon $5 tier!
Check it out on Patreon for more details!
In the never-ending dash for more cash to keep Exiern running, we’re not above stealing ideas from other more financially successful webcomics left, right and centre (though is it really stealing if you ask permission first? We’ll leave that question to the philosophers).
Anyway, as a new feature ultimately destined for the $5 tier (we said we’re always thinking about each of the tiers and what to do for them!), in what I guess technically counts as Exiern’s first crossover with the webcomic Spying With Lana, Sean Harrington (surely needs no introduction by now?) has agreed to help us get started for a reasonable fee (the best kind of exposure is when you’re paid for it!).
He won’t be the long-term artist for this feature (as he has his own webcomic to look after of course!) but after we manage to get the first few of these off the ground, we’re going to open things up to all people in the $5 tier and above to write scripts for submission for these short features.
The ones selected by a panel including Scott and the artists will be made. It’s intended to be an ongoing feature so there’ll be plenty of chances for everyone. I won’t be on the selection panel as my writing sucks.
In other news, the first short for this new feature has had the script already submitted to Sean and was written by me.
More news on how this is all going to work (or will it? – time will tell!) soon!
Regards,
Shan (Exiern General Manager or whatever)
Keeping it simple, the plan was twofold. One was to shift Studio Katsumi from Exiern to Dark Reflections: Chaos full time (and you may have noticed the increase in the number of pages as a result) while having another artist fill in for a while before another long-term artist steps in for Exiern.
That part of the plan seems to have stumbled at the moment. We will definitely have another image up no later than midnight Saturday (US East Coast Time) and then we promise there will definitely be story pages in the week after that one way or another as well as making up the loss of forward storytelling momentum in the last couple of weeks.
We apologise for the inconvenience!
Some unforeseen issues came up so this week’s Exiern page will be delayed, We’re aiming for later this week and hopefully we’ll make that and the longer term goal is to get back to weekly updates on Mondays as soon as possible.
Dark Reflections: Zen has already updated and Dark Reflections: Chaos will update on Wednesday on its website as scheduled.
We’re aiming for the next Exiern update to be Thursday the 4th of November 2021 followed by every Monday from the 8th of November 2021. That’s right, we should be back to Mondays very soon if all goes to plan! (Not like those have ever gone wrong for Exiern ever before …)
Dark Reflections: Chaos is on the verge of returning to Wednesdays as well. Not exactly sure when that’s going to be but highly likely to be some time in November, we’ll keep everyone posted as to exactly when!
Dark Reflections: Zen looks like it’ll continue to publish weekly on Tuesdays for now (we thought me might have had to go on hiatus soon but now apparently not). Any changes in that situation, we’ll let you all know.
Lots more stuff planned on the horizon, hopefully we’ll have news for you all about this soon as well!
Exiern – The next update will be on the last day of this month. We hope to bring you some exciting news about the updates after this one soon!
Dark Reflections: Chaos – Still every Saturday for now but we hope to bring you some moderately interesting news about those updates as well about as soon.
Dark Reflections: Zen – No change for now (still Tuesdays)
Exiern v1.0 – Is now complete and available to read in full!
In other news, the next story in the Exiern Shorts feature will be illustrated and written by Sean Harrington of the webcomic Spying With Lana.
It will update every Monday from next month on the Patreon $5 tier.
Thank you for your patience and apologies for the delays. Hopefully we are closer to solving this current situation.
Lots of new material coming soon, both free to access and to Patreon!
