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March 28, 2008

The Deal.

A few quick things.

In case you're not all over my Twitter or forums or somesuch, Templar's joined Keenspot. That's sort of a secret treehouse club of webcomics, except we don't have any lockboxes full of salt water taffy and Dad's Playboys.

This won't mean much to you guys, except for the new header bar and newsbox. It does, however, mean bunches and bunches to the likes of me, primarily in the "Wouldn't it be cool to make a living wage from a webcomic?" category. With any luck, this will improve my traffic and exposure. My feed addresses, domain, and host won't change though, so yeah, as you were.

Also, Templar is only just back on track after two weeks of missed updates due to a stupendously unreal bout of the flu. I can now describe the sensation of multiple bodily orifices evacuating simultaneously, and the decision-making process that accompanies deciding which one gets access to the toilet. It's not really an experience I'd recommend. I'm all better now, though. Recent orders have been sent, commission orders are chugging along, and I'm about a quarter done remastering the pages for the print edition of chapter two.

This is the cover art for book 2. Part of it, anyway.

I've got a big overhaul of my sales page coming up, too; the addition of some heavily discounted misprints, a package deal for the upcoming book 2 preorder drive with a new t-shirt, possibly some posters. Lots of stuff.

I need to update my con schedule, too, because I'll be hitting SDCC, SPX, Wizard World Chicago, Anime Central, and MoCCA this year. God help meeeee.

In non-comic news, my computer's video card breathed its last only just before I went down with the flu. I won't be getting Dell to pay for it, unfortunately, because I put it in myself, and the warranty expired ages ago. Kinda sucky. But hey, the DVD drive is starting to make irritable cat noises, so who knows? Maybe that friendly Dell repair guy that dropped in with my new power supply will be making a repeat performance sometime soon!

Practically a brand new computer, folks. Not happy over here. Oh, well. Live and learn.

Posted by Spike at March 28, 2008 07:53 AM

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Ahh, sweeet sweet storyline.

Posted by Jerry at March 28, 2008 10:46 AM
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>the decision-making process that accompanies deciding which one gets access to the toilet

If I ever own my own home I'm going to remodel the bathroom so that the toilet is next to the bathtub. Just in case that ever happens to me.

Glad you're feeling better!

Posted by Tone at March 28, 2008 10:53 AM
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"I can now describe the sensation of multiple bodily orifices evacuating simultaneously, and the decision-making process that accompanies deciding which one gets access to the toilet."

This is why I always have a small trashcan in the bathroom in case this ever happens... again. It's about the worst feeling in the world, though.

I'm interested in seeing what Dr. Bash is getting at in this comic.

Posted by Bremma at March 28, 2008 11:21 AM
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Yeah, we lived in an apt that had a sink close enough to the toilet to handle that sort of "incident." So that removes the mental debate over "resource" usage. It leaves the "Am I going to die/I wish I would die" debate to rage during the event itself thought.

Dell is stinky. It's CD/DVD drives ALWAYS fail - generally within the first 13 months. I've moved to building my own machine out of good quality parts. A fairly cheap option that still results in quality. Especially since you're machine isn't loaded with all the crap software that's usually jammed into your system.

I'm sure someone would help you out in that area for cost (or even barter). But Dell... Yeah. Friends don't let friends buy Dell Computers.

Glad you're back in the land of living!

Phoinix

Posted by Phoinix at March 28, 2008 01:27 PM
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Yay! Praise be! Everything gets better every day! Congratulations on Templar getting yet another gold star, so to speak!

Posted by Adelai at March 28, 2008 03:38 PM
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The bum always gets the toilet. Always.

Grats on the keenspot linking, I hope that works out well! And so glad you're feeling better.

More stories about Dell breaking down, eh? My hubby is looking to buy a computer and way eyeing Dell deals. I'm desperately trying to veer him away from it. Never had good experiences with them either, personally.

./comfort

Posted by Kat at March 28, 2008 04:22 PM
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been there, done that. at least i didn't have to go into work....it was horrible. garbage cans next to toilets are ALWAYS a must.

thankfully my bug was only a 24ish hour deal.

good to see you're up and going again! :)

Posted by befu at March 28, 2008 10:17 PM
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If this ever happens to me, and god forbid that it actualy does, I'm kind of lucky - I got the toilet, the sink and the tub pretty much all lined upp next to eachother, and - just in case - of course there's also a trashcan.

This way, regardless of the amount of orifices, I'll not have to make any decisions whatsoever in that regard =)

Glad you're feeling better btw.

Posted by Krank at March 29, 2008 03:18 AM
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See, ya... I can totally relate to the flu bug you are describing...

Even worse is having to clean it up later.

Posted by Riven at March 30, 2008 02:04 AM
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