Hi, sorry I’ve been absent. I’ve had more pain recently associated with my pregnancy (things are probably fine but I’m not), and last week I had several visitors (something that was nice for a change) and then one of my good friends died abruptly very recently and I’m just

having a hard time right now.

I can pretty much wrap up the inception story, though. The rest is mostly just world building, trying to make things interesting – the setting should be explored/explained more in comic once they leave Baeza’s tomb, so I won’t worry about that here. After that, it was just a matter of kicking off the story, which coincided with a writing convention, and here we are.

So with that, you can expect the next page to be the original comic, getting back to it. I don’t know when I’ll be off the struggle bus, but I’m not feeling great about trying to pick up the pace again until I’m sure I’m not going to immediately trip again. I have the next proper comic page ready, and I’ve started the second, so… better than nothing but overall, not great. I’m trying to do things that will force me to keep working on my art, so I hope that will help. (If you’ve noticed the new “Characters” part of the header, it’s my slipshod profile for participating in an event called Art Fight, although localized to an online community I enjoy rather than the event itself proper. It’s. Pretty crappy, for an actual character directory, but enough for art references and the most I can muster to keep pulling myself along.) I know it’s frustrating when webcomics do this, but that’s the hazard of the medium, eh? I know I’ll pull through, I just don’t know an eta. I could give myself a deadline, but the grief I’m going through is… not something I feel like I really understand right now, and I don’t want to put it on a timeline.
I may try to make Monochrome-relevant art and I will post what I do, however. Thank you all for your consideration.