We did our first Interviews for the new series.

Blogroll - What happened to Incredible Doom Vol. 3?

This month: Recontextualizing for the win. Plus: the 24/7 stream keeping weird internet alive, what happened with Incredible Doom Vol. 3, and the Vlogbrothers continue to kick ass.

An Honest Update on Incredible Doom Vol. 3

If you've been waiting for new pages of Incredible Doom Vol. 3, you've been waiting for a while. I owe you an explanation—and an apology for not posting this sooner.

Hand-lettered text with visible Fountain asterisks (*NO!* ***IMPOSSIBLE!***). Green arrows mark asterisks, red arrows mark capital I's.

I built a robot to fix my comic lettering.

I write my comics in Fountain, but pasting into Clip Studio brings all the markdown with it—asterisks, underscores, everything. Plus there's this comic lettering convention about uppercase vs lowercase I that I was fixing manually. So I built a macro that handles both. Free download.

A person sits at a cluttered table, leaning over a laptop with a hand on their forehead. Papers and books surround them as daylight streams through windows behind.

The last attempt looks like the others.

Two years of rewrites, failed attempts, and starting over. Then a few adjustments that didn't feel different from any others.