Lots of changes going on here! Phil Hofer has worked tirelessly (He stayed up all night!) to get the site working again after its database corrupted. It ends up that a plugin was at the root of the problem, so now it’s gone.

This also explains why I haven’t been blogging—I couldn’t. The blogging part of the site was the first part that broke, leading to the discovery of the other problems. It’s like getting a sore foot, and finding out that your spine is out of alignment. (OK, terrible analogy, but you get the basic idea). The posting function is fixed now (Thanks, Phil!).

eShop, the source of our problems, is out of the picture, the plugin that powered our store. I’ll have a new store up and running by Monday, one with more options. For now, if you feel you need a copy of “Johnny Saturn: Sins of the Father“, you need to go to Amazon.com for it.

If I can draw your attention to the new navigation buttons under the comic, and the pull-down menus in the top nav bar, these are some of Phil’s additions to the site, and they are damn tasty!

I’d also like to mention the Johnny Saturn will be taking part in the “Frumph.NET’s Great Holiday Hunt,” which you can read more about here.

I’ll probably post more this afternoon!

Scott

My apologies for not blogging last week.  Our computer ended up in the shop for five days, and I was so cut off from the world!  Honestly, it’s a mystery to me why people have to create malware.  I did use the time away wisely, however, and I created a lot of new art.

If you are reading “Being Johnny Saturn,” with new prose posted every Saturday, let us know what you think.  Benita is a fabulous writer, and I love this story.  Plus, it’s all in continuity, and it explains some of what happened to the characters between issue six and seven.

Speaking of Issue Seven, it’s all penciled and inked, even the cover.  Every issue has its own character, and I’ve really enjoyed this one.  I’ll be moving on to issue eight right away, so there won’t be any interruption in the webcomic.  We won’t be publishing the print and PDF version of issue seven right away, because I still haven’t rendered the first ten pages in color.  You shouldn’t have to wait too long, though.

I thought it would be fun to post pictures of all the characters I’ve dreamed up for this series but have never had the opportunity to include in the comic yet.  That was the plan, but then I discovered that I had made up scores of these characters!  So, I’m going to put them out in small groups.

Here we have the Astral Geek, EMBER, Gauge, Head Case, Mattock, and Melody Darling.  I have big (or not so big) plans for all of them, so I really hope they eventually get some face time in the strip.

Thanks! Scott