Right - first off, I'd like to apologize for the messed-up update schedule so far this year. I'm planning big, cool things, and am having trouble getting them running, so the comic's losing out a bit. All should be fixed soon, once some money enters my bank account. It's complicated and involves talk of Donator Codes, my bank's insistence that I'm under 21 and therefore a credit risk, and my full-time temporary employment for Oxfam, via several shady agencies.

I can (kinda) guarantee that the comic will be back to a regular update schedule next week. However, the regular schedule will be different from last year's one.

I'm dropping the Wednesday update, not because I hate you, or because I can't make as many comics, but because I'm trying to stretch out a limited number. You see, in May, I'll be hopefully leaving the country to work as a Missionary in a foreign land, for a period of two years. This means that over the next few months, I'm going to be working to produce over a hundred TK comics, ready to go out once a week over these two years. Dropping down to two updates a week will make the change to a weekly update easier, as well as giving me less to do. I'd rather keep it at three a week - heck, I'd rather have it back at five a week, if I could - but I can't. I need to support myself, I need to save up over £2000 ($3500) minimum, £6000 ($10,000) maximum to pay for the mission, and I need to study for an exam I'm resitting, attend my church meetings and fulfil my responsibilities, and, a lot lower down the list of priorities, I want to make this comic stretch for years to come.

My goal in regards to this comic constantly seems to change. I've gone from just experimenting with the idea of a webcomic as practice for something bigger and better, to wanting to make it this huge epic, to just wanting to end it and move on, to a thousand other aims and goals. My current goal is to keep it running - and growing in popularity - for five years. February marks its fist birthday, so I'm hoping to be here, making a celebratory post, in February 2011, and talking vaguely about future storylines.

And in order for the ball to keep rolling, I've got to drop down to 2 updates a week for now. Rest assured that once I return from my mission, I'll do everything in my power to pull things up to a higher number of updates.



However, I am going to make things up to you. This sacrifice of one update a week, will not be in vain. I personally think that, starting Monday (hopefully), the best story-arc so far will begin, one that, about 40 comics ahead of the update schedule, I've still not concluded yet. In fact, it sets the entire scene for series three, based on KotOR II, and will continue even beyond then. There are more of my all-time favourite comics yet to be released than there are already out there - to put it another way, if I were to make a list of my twenty favourite comics, there would be more on the list that you have noe yet seen than there would be ones you're familiar with.

Another exciting change that's coming Monday, which involves me paying for free webspace, is the introduction of...nah, I want to keep it a secret for now. I'm just going to say that some of you might want to consider getting the latest Flash player (although its not necessary) and, just so nobody gets their hopes up, it's not full fledged animation. In fact, for the most part, it's not much of a change at all.

I think that webcomics are too often in the awkward position of simply trying to imitate print comics, even though both mediums are profoundly different. Some comics, like VG Cats, take avantage of the benefits available to internet artists, by making comics of a simply huge size that would never be printed simply because it would be too difficult.

But we can go further than comics that are just large. We can - no, I don't want to say yet. I think it's awesome. You probably won't.