Monday on the next Tuesday.
Thus we come to the last seven WoB
strips ever. I shall be spending this week quite, quite
upset. Endings make me sad, and this has been an ending seven and
a half years in the making. I may be a little attached to the
characters by this point.
My plan is to finish by next Sunday or
Monday, though my other obligations may make it necessary for me to
fiddle with the schedule a bit. The strip won't end before Sunday; I'll be aiming to post the final Sunday strip on a Sunday, whether or not that actually works out. This means that there may
be at least one day this week (besides today, I mean) on which two
comics are posted instead of one (likely with many hours between
postings). Keep an eye out for the possible double-comic day(s).
After
the comic ends, I'm planning to take a two-week break before starting
the new strip. Information about it will be posted on the WoB Talk blog and on Facebook. I'm not ready to reveal much about it yet, but I can say the following:
1) It will be called It Never Rains.
2) The protagonist will be Rose, Barbara Mickel's eldest niece.
3)
Barbara will not be a major character in the comic, but she will
appear from time to time. She's Barbara; she goes where she likes.
4) The story will take place in a universe continuous with the WoB
universe, but it is just possible that when strange things happen in
this story, they will be rather less maddeningly ambiguous than they
are in WoB.
5)
At the moment, I'm planning for this to be a MWF comic, with no
larger-format weekend strip except on special occasions. While I
like the big strips, they take an inordinate amount of time to create.
However, I'm also currently planning for INR
to be a colour comic. I go back and forth on this one, as I do
actually quite enjoy working with black and white, but I think it may
be time to make the move to colour.
I don't want to reveal
anything about the plot yet because...well, you know me. If I
gave things away too soon, you would have no reason to want to throttle
me.
Oh, and one more thing:
I am planning a WoB
print collection. I know I've said this before, but I'm quite
determined to get this done. It will be enormous and,
unfortunately, rather expensive, and there will probably be a
Kickstarter at some point, and I'm going to manage this or die in the attempt.
I'm currently waiting to hear back from a graphic designer who
will help me figure out the best way to go about the project.
I'll be posting this information on the blog as well. Thanks for your support, everyone. |