We’re sorry for the delay of one week for the next story page.
Please watch this space under each new updated page for when we’ll be able to make up that lost week, it’ll probably be the Thursday following the Monday of the week we’re finally able to do so.
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)
Apologies to everyone but circumstances are such that it’s highly likely that we need to defer the next page to the following Monday on the 9th of August 2021. We’ll do our best to make things up as quickly as possible.
More detail can be found here at this open access Patreon post.
… should be sometime this week.
We’re aiming to claw our way back to posting at midnight on Mondays as well as hopefully not missing a week along the way.
We’re also intending to get Dark Reflections: Chaos back to Wednesdays and once again, we’re at least hoping to make sure there’s another page sometime this week at least.
In the meantime, there’s still the original version of Exiern posting here daily at:
More than 50 pages up and more than 50 to go!
Once again, new pages every day!
We hoped to avoid this but due to the indirect knock-on effects of the pandemic sweeping the globe, this week’s page for Exiern (Monday) and Dark Reflections: Chaos aren’t going to make their scheduled publication days. The next Neese page has also been swept up in this situation as well.
We’ll do our best to get them both posted this week but if worst comes to worst, we may just have to take a hit for the week and do our best to come back next week.
We’ve been doing pretty well this year with not too much filler and even a few weeks of more than one update a week. So hopefully we can make up any potential deficits soon if they happen.
Anyway, we’ll keep you all posted as to developments. Hopefully this won’t be for too long.
In the meanwhile, there’s still daily updates of the original version of Exiern here at:
Almost 50 images posted already and over 50 to go!
Some things have come up on the production end, so the Dark Reflections: Chaos page which is in progress will be delayed from its usual publication date and there is likely to be a bit of a knock on effect for other upcoming Exiern pages.
We’ll do our best to get back on track and make sure there’s no net loss of published pages by a given date in the long run but we can’t say yet when and for how long the delays are going to be and how long it’ll be before things are back on schedule.
We apologise for the inconvenience and promise to keep you all regularly updated.
