I want to thank all of the new readers. The average ADistantSoil.com reader spends nearly a half hour a day on the site, and our weekly views run as high as a full hour. Average page views are running at a dozen per day, with a bounce rate of less than 30%. Every hit helps the site pay for itself, and your interest tells me I am doing my job: providing you with comics you want to see and articles you want to read. I was told to write short and shallow “bullet point” blog posts to get as many hits as possible, but I write what I want to…

Another page drawn long after the other pages in this chapter. You can see the marked improvement in the art.