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We’ve been acutely aware for some time that the $5 tier on Patreon has been just a bit neglected for a while now so as just the start of the process of making up for that … the special feature for Dark Reflections which is starting as of Monday next week … all ten pages of it are being posted on the Patreon $5 tier today!
If you were a member of the $5 tier that ever paid at that level at anytime in the past and don’t want to rejoin at this time, please get in touch with Scott and we’ll see if we can work out some other way to get this to you in advance of the regular scheduled non-Patreon publication.
Art by our previous regular artist who was going by the professional handle Antipus but is now going under the name Luis XIII. This is just one of the projects that he’s been working on since moving from the main title for the time being. There will be more on the way as soon as possible!
We’re at least aiming for:
New Exiern every Monday.
New Dark Reflections: Zen every Tuesday if you never saw it on Patreon!
New Dark Reflections: Chaos every Wednesday (definitely all new!)
Also, don’t forget all the non-storyline images, experiments and other things we’ve been testing out or using as voting incentives in the Gallery in Extras (just scroll down the list past the Dark Reflections pages) and the past voting incentives at Top Webcomics and other bonus art in the Bonus Images Archive!
Click the banners below to see them! (Warning, potential NSFW content at the links except for Extras which is still mature content.)
As promised, as of the 21st of October 2020, we’ve posted pages for both of the Exiern: Dark Reflections stories that we announced. Zen will be pages from the Patreon $1 tier while Chaos will be all new previously unseen pages made by our current Exiern artist (and original professional artist) Studio Katsumi.
Future updates will be every subsequent Tuesday for Zen and Wednesday for Chaos. So weekly updates for each for as long as we can maintain that schedule. We also intend for there to be additional bonus pages and we’re working on those as we speak. Click the banners below to see more!
Now as for why are we doing this at all? Well, as it’s been mentioned before, Exiern runs at a loss each month and unless we do something additional and different, chances are it’s not going to grow in readership or income. So this is an attempt to do something about that.
It’s also an opportunity to take advantage of some story avenues by adding some additional narrative directions as well as from this branching off point, Chaos and Zen are going to potentially be quite different. We’ve also already been laying the groundwork to tie the narrative reasons for these separate universes across Exiern as a whole for some time now.
Anyway, click the banners below to proceed. Not only to Chaos and Zen but also the additional bonus Exiern artwork archives as well. As a side note, Zen was named after the pen name of the author (namely Zen of course) and Chaos could be seen as the opposite of Zen which is why it was chosen at the time to differentiate it, so I wouldn’t necessarily read too much into it … well, not yet anyway.
Extras includes images and arcs we’ve been experimenting with outside the current narratives that will likely appear later somewhere in many cases and the bonus images include Top Webcomics voting incentives and other artwork not necessarily part of any of the ongoing stories as such (even if they hint at it at times!). We hope you all enjoy all this additional material!
As promised, here’s the follow up post to the previous one. The retelling of the start of Dark Reflections has been up for about 18 hours at the time of writing on Patreon and all 51 pages are accessible at the $1 tier (it has to be that way due to some NSFW content).
Now one of the main purposes of making it was to help with the promotion of Exiern and to get more traffic to the site. Something we’ll be talking more in the months ahead before the new year.
So, that’s why it’s also just gone live on the website TG Comics. So, alternatively you can see it there for free! Please keep in mind that the TG stands for exactly what you think it does and that it has classified itself as an adult site. There is most definitely NSFW material there.
Anyway, you can see the Dark Reflections promo if you click here (NSFW) – their interface is really good for flicking through the pages – and you can also see our previous effort for Exiern that they hosted last year which is here (NSFW) and which did bring about the largest boost for the Exiern Patreon that we’ve had in years.
This is also to launch the two continuations of Exiern: Dark Reflections beyond Page 44. You can catch up on the original 44 pages of Dark Reflections by clicking the banner below and then choose which path you would like to continue, Zen or Chaos.
We’re currently getting the two different stories set up (so the current updates might seem just a bit familiar) but there will be all new pages for Chaos and pages that might be familiar to Patreon subscribers but new if you weren’t for Zen from the 21st of October.
A subsequent announcement to follow with more detail about that then but in the meantime, if you want to catch up on the Dark Reflections, please click the banner below.
(New information page inserted directly after Page 44!)
Just seeing if anyone remembers a quite notable line from the 1987 film classic Robocop. Now as for the rest of the title, over the next 30 minutes or so, a project we’ve been working on all year is going to drop on Patreon at the $1 tier.
OK, strictly speaking it’s of a retelling of the start of Exiern: Dark Reflections but it’s all part of our attempts to help promote Exiern overall and ultimately boost our revenue. Which is why it’s also going up at 4pm (American East Coast Time) at TG Comics for free. Thanks again to them for hosting our stories.
However, it is a site which comes with an adult warning (and yes, the TG stands for what you think it does) so your alternative is to see it on Patreon (just $1 due at the end of the month for the whole lot!) and also almost 16 hours earlier! (Please note there will be some NSFW material in the form of nudity.)
It’s also the lead in for some completely new Dark Reflections material, so be back here at 4pm for a follow up announcement about that as well as the specific link at TG Comics to the new Dark Reflections story (or a new retelling at least!).
