Hey everyone! I know it's been a long time since I posted. I am stopping in to give you an update, and to tease a one-shot I'll be uploading here in July.
Brief Life Update:
This month I'm heading to my parents again. Our family will be meeting with a hospice nurse to determine how far my dad's dementia has progressed. Depending on what stage he is in, if it is decided he needs full-time care in the hospice, then the stress of direct care-giving will be lifted from my mom (and sister and myself). This will mean I will not need to travel every month and half to assist my family with is care/give them a much needed break (I will still be returning to visit, see what needs must be met, what calls need to be made, etc, but the schedule will be much less rigorous than it has been).
Should this be the case, I will possibly be able to pick up on Dark Horse. I will create a refresher page ("The Story Thus Far," who the characters are, a much shorter more concise timeline of events, etc), which will precede any continuation with the next chapter.
Should it be determined Dad is not ready for hospice care, I'll have to remain on hiatus until the time comes when he is moved into hospice care.
Regardless of my personal life, this July I am sharing a one-shot story sequence. This story is meant to help contextualize some of Rin's own personal feelings towards events that have come to pass, which are not being shown in the story proper (you know, having almost died twice now, she may act all happy go lucky, but beneath the surface, she's got a lot going on). The story is titled What Dreams May Come...? and will be featured in this summer's Comic Fury Zine (I won't be doing a comic for the Fall NSFW zine, and we had the space, so I decided I'd put together a one-shot for the zine, and to share here for you readers since we've been on hiatus so long).
This, unlike Night Hustle is canonical (not to say Night Hustle isn't, but it's a bit silly and was mostly just for fun).
One last update regarding Dark Horse: Battle Royal, the revamp chapter I've been working on, concludes May 20. However, as soon as I complete the last page of Battle Royal, I will update this website immediately! I'll do my usual blog update to let people know what's going on, but I'm really excited to have reworked a lot of those pages. While I am STILL working on action scenes, I *hope* you're able to see how much I've improved with backgrounds and character proportions! Aaaaand I took advice/comments/responses to those scenes and pages from you readers here when I reworked them. So I owe you all a HUGE thank you for all the support, comments, and constructive critiques/edits I've gotten over the years.
Thank you all! And thank you again for your patience. I hope you enjoy the one-shot coming in July.
Peace and Love,
~Blue
(P.S. I have not missed any videos, but I don't feel it appropriate to share a bunch of videos with this message, so if you want to keep up with my projects, feel free to check out my channel. I try to be entertaining. Or at least instructional/helpful).
I am really excited to work on this :3 I like the short stories because they force me to work on brevity and making good use of pages and panels.
Whether I achieve that or not, well, we'll see ;)
Also, thank you. It's okay. It's only life (this song has nothing to do with anything, but I love The Shins). But seriously...we're over the biggest hurdle since last trip I talked to the doctor directly, and he didn't jerk me around like he was Mom. If he's as bad as Mom is reporting...then she's going to get some help soon (I am disgusted with Medicare. But I've been disgusted with US healthcare since...well, college).
It'll be okay. This literally is a stage of life we all pass through. And one major consolation that I told Dad last time I was home...and he was asking what was going on...was that he's not going to remember this. So there's that.
Brief Life Update:
This month I'm heading to my parents again. Our family will be meeting with a hospice nurse to determine how far my dad's dementia has progressed. Depending on what stage he is in, if it is decided he needs full-time care in the hospice, then the stress of direct care-giving will be lifted from my mom (and sister and myself). This will mean I will not need to travel every month and half to assist my family with is care/give them a much needed break (I will still be returning to visit, see what needs must be met, what calls need to be made, etc, but the schedule will be much less rigorous than it has been).
Should this be the case, I will possibly be able to pick up on Dark Horse. I will create a refresher page ("The Story Thus Far," who the characters are, a much shorter more concise timeline of events, etc), which will precede any continuation with the next chapter.
Should it be determined Dad is not ready for hospice care, I'll have to remain on hiatus until the time comes when he is moved into hospice care.
Regardless of my personal life, this July I am sharing a one-shot story sequence. This story is meant to help contextualize some of Rin's own personal feelings towards events that have come to pass, which are not being shown in the story proper (you know, having almost died twice now, she may act all happy go lucky, but beneath the surface, she's got a lot going on). The story is titled What Dreams May Come...? and will be featured in this summer's Comic Fury Zine (I won't be doing a comic for the Fall NSFW zine, and we had the space, so I decided I'd put together a one-shot for the zine, and to share here for you readers since we've been on hiatus so long).
This, unlike Night Hustle is canonical (not to say Night Hustle isn't, but it's a bit silly and was mostly just for fun).
One last update regarding Dark Horse: Battle Royal, the revamp chapter I've been working on, concludes May 20. However, as soon as I complete the last page of Battle Royal, I will update this website immediately! I'll do my usual blog update to let people know what's going on, but I'm really excited to have reworked a lot of those pages. While I am STILL working on action scenes, I *hope* you're able to see how much I've improved with backgrounds and character proportions! Aaaaand I took advice/comments/responses to those scenes and pages from you readers here when I reworked them. So I owe you all a HUGE thank you for all the support, comments, and constructive critiques/edits I've gotten over the years.
Thank you all! And thank you again for your patience. I hope you enjoy the one-shot coming in July.
Peace and Love,
~Blue
(P.S. I have not missed any videos, but I don't feel it appropriate to share a bunch of videos with this message, so if you want to keep up with my projects, feel free to check out my channel. I try to be entertaining. Or at least instructional/helpful).