First and foremost, my sincere appreciation to Robert Pincombe for his noble sacrifice of dollars on the altar of A Distant Soil. Robert popped us a donation after reading VERY BAD PUBLISHERS, which I continually flog, not just for my benefit but for yours. If you consider getting into the art and entertainment profession (any area, including webcomics,) I really wish you would take the time to read about my experiences. The posts start off a bit slow, but I go into detail about contract scams and other publishing pitfalls. And in other happy news, the restoration process is a lot speedier now that I have learned to use the…

Shot from the original art. I didn’t have enough Photoshop skills to do clean up and restoration on the early pages I posted, but now I do. It takes at least an hour per page to fix mistakes and remove flaws. This is one of the reasons I am considering cutting back to posting 3 pages a week: I need to spend more time doing NEW pages. This page was especially problematic, with word balloon pointer mistakes and line segments missing. I had to restore parts of the background and do some work on the figures. Fortunately, the site is bringing in more money. If that continues, I will be…

The comic returns on Monday for five days a week space opera goodness! Thanks so much for reading! If you’re arriving here the first time, enjoy your holiday, sit back, and have some webcomics! If the traffic on the site continues to improve, I can maintain the five days a week updates through 2010. If not, I may cut back to 3 or 4 days. We will see. I was going to cut back in January, but I will keep up the five days posting until March at least. Let’s see what happens! Your vote makes me dance and sing! YAY! Thank you!!! And if you want to take a…

This page needed about 2 hours of restoration. Had I more Photoshop chops, probably would have been easier, but there you go. This was shot from the book. Alas, for some reason, I used the wrong tone sheet for about a half dozen figures in this issue, and on random shots in earlier books. When printed, the tones went to mud, and the figures turned out almost flat black. Without the original art, I had to guess at the drawing beneath the tone sheet and carefully redo the details. I’ve never done any Photoshop tones before, and have a lot to learn. Forgive my Novice Nelly performance. I decided to…

I cannot contain my excitement! How thrilling! If about 50 of you vote for A Distant Soil, we make it into the TOP 100 WEBCOMICS! After that, I want world peace. You may vote once a day, and I wish you would.

Most sincere thanks to our noble patron Raymond Parungao whose generous donation bringeth unto him a hot page of original art from A Distant Soil. Aeren doesn’t appear in this book very much, but it is amazing how many people want pictures of him. The dude’s got the mojo.