©2008 Scott Robertson. Koalacaust

I’m a bit behind schedule, but I have Labor Day off and already did my barbecue on Saturday. I will finish up the comic and hopefully have it up by noon PST, and will finish Wednesday’s comic in advance to help myself out this week.

Thanks for your patience, everyone. I do appreciate it.

-Scott

UPDATE: I got the comic up at 4:30 pm PST.

Obviously, PST means “Parallel-Universe Standard Time”.

Hopefully, he made it down without incident!

I told you they climb those. Real life imitates art!

After a couple of character profiles and a location map, we’ve opened the doors to Chapter 2 of Koalacaust. This chapter will introduce new characters, new locations, and a deeper understanding of who Garrick is, and by extension, Oz-Ten.

Thanks for sticking around, and I hope you plan to continue doing so as the story unfolds. We have a lot of ground to cover, and character development to go with it. I really enjoy writing and drawing, so I’m not going anywhere.

Ads will start showing up on the site in October, once Chapter 2 has finished. I can’t imagine putting up ads when there are only 25 entries, so I think 50 is a solid number to use as a jumping off point. That is also when I will be purchasing ads on a few key websites, and I’ve decided to use Project Wonderful, after careful deliberation.

The new pages will go up on the site this month, also. Character and Location pages, a timeline, and a FAQ that will develop over time as questions are asked.

You’ll thank me later,

-Scott

Oh boy, it’s Monday. Just want to make everybody aware of how things will happen as the story progresses.

Every time a chapter ends, I will post a character sheet for every character introduced during that chapter. The benefits are three-fold:

1. These are the basics of the character sheets that will go on the cast page, so they’re beneficial to the site as a whole. There will be some changes on the actual page, like selectable text.
2. It gives you a little background information on the characters that isn’t really worth revealing in the story itself. Being a comic fan, I enjoy little dossiers and handbooks to characters, and I hope you do as well.
3. It gives me a bit of a break. These aren’t nearly as time consuming as a comic, and I can do one of these every day if I introduce several characters in a chapter, there could be 4 or 5 updates in a week rather than the usual 3 comic updates. I will do everything I can to make the break between chapters never last longer than 1 week.

I hope you all enjoyed Chapter One. I’ll be creating several other pages to the site now that we’ve moved along a little bit. We’ve met 2 of the main characters, and we have a few more to come. If there are no main characters introduced during a chapter, I’ll come up with another valid excuse to take a week off, but there will always be some kind of update for you. Unless I am physically unable to provide you with an update, Monday/Wednesday/Friday will always have some sort of valid content give to you.

I welcome your comments on the message board or directly in response to the blog posts. Even though there doesn’t appear to be a lot of traffic on the message board(because there isn’t) I check it every day, and will do my best to respond to every comment made.

You’ll thank me later.
-Scott Robertson

At least that’s what I learned on Seinfeld.

That still counts!

I won’t do this TOO often. I plan to do “checkpoint” blogs for a few more numbers, though. We’ll have one for 25, 50, 75 and 100. After that, it will be every 500.

Not trying to be too self-congratulatory, but it’s not easy doing something as fun as this while working full-time. I could update 5 days a week if I had chosen a smaller comic format, but you’ve seen my layouts. I dislike rigidity. I find I can do a hell of a lot more story-telling with the option of dynamic layouts than a 3-5 panel spread.

Congratulations to Meredith Gran on successfully preparing book #2 of her spectacular webcomic Octopus Pie in time for SDCC. I’ve never met Meredith, but she is the primary webcomicker that inspired me to finally launch this project. Her art is so fun and robust, I hope I can achieve the consistency she demonstrates on the same schedule I keep.

Looking back, there are a few steps I’d have eliminated in the creation of these 10 comics. I don’t plan to redo any comics, so if there is an artistic error, it’s there forever.

Looking ahead, there are plans for an eventual shift to updates 6 days a week. There will be a 3-5-panel, single row strip that will be considered “in-continuity” for like-minded types. It will have more intentional humor than the main comic, but it will not be plot-driven. That will be updated on a T-Th-Sat schedule, and Sunday will be the only day I do not update. I plan to launch this project early next year, depending on how many I can get finished ahead of time.

Being disconnected from current events allows me to create comics ahead of time. Some writer/artists don’t like to do this, but until I am able to thrive on building websites and doing a webcomic, I have no choice!

Recommend this site to your friends. Remind them that it’s free to read the entire thing from start to finish! We all want something for free.

I should probably have an avatar attached to these posts. I am unsure if I’ll use a real picture or just draw one.

You’ll thank me later.
Scott

I don’t think you could do that. “Lucky”, indeed.

Here is a link to the story

I’m showing up on Yahoo and Google now. You know, the search engines that people actually bother to use. MSN can go to hell.

The concept of marsupial powers was brought up in the forum that loads sometimes and it got me thinking. What exactly would marsupial powers be? A pouch somewhere? The ability to carry children all over your body? The ability to lay eggs rather than grow a child inside of you? Hell, maybe women would prefer marsupial powers.

I’ve been taking naps when I get home from work and it has literally doubled my productivity. Rather than trudging through making a new comic in steps over a couple days after work, I can complete a comic in a single evening after work. I sleep about an hour and a half after work, and roughly 6-7 hours at night, so it’s working out rather nicely.

I should come up with a tagline to end these with. The one I used for articles in high school is overused now. That’s something to work on. Until then, you get random thoughts that appear as I end this.

-I’d kiss Katy Perry, and I’d like it.

After only about 5 days, that’s cool.

Not showing up on Yahoo or MSN, though. Apparently they don’t like my SEO’s or something. I’ll have to look into it.

Actually appearing in a search engine is a good thing, right?

-Scott