Holy crap.

The fact this ever made it to the online world is a small miracle unto itself. The last few months have been, quite simply, hell. And sadly, through it, the comic was something that had to play second fiddle to my RL crisis of epic proportions.

I won’t go too far into it, nor am I going to name the parties involved, but  to sum it up the two people I thought cared about me the most stabbed me in the back, and had been stabbing for some time. There was a brief period of homelessness, couch surfing, having had to leave my home due to the afford mentioned crisis, and then going through a process to reclaim my home and deal with the problem at hand, and then there was/is the ongoing process of trying to pick up the pieces of my shattered life and try to puzzle them back together. Long time friends have been lost, homes have been broken, and budgets hammered and much therapy will be needed over this whole debacle into the next year.

This is the sort of thing that destroys most people. Fortunately I am not most people.

I’m just now starting to get my creative drive back, doing what I can to resume some semblance of normality to my life, trying to re-establish routines and see what I can recover of my former existence. I’ve gotten an offer of help for the coloring duties, we’ll see how that pans out, it may or may not work at this point, but I’m hopeful. I’ve also been working on Shiftersonline.com and hopefully something will come in that vein soon.

Anyway, enjoy an update.

Chapter 4 Pg 4 is a post from: Brymstone – Online fantasy web manga.

Yes, I know its been a ridiculously long time since I updated. I am aware of this. I’m trying to remedy this, its just.. well been equally ridiculously difficult to work on this. I’m not sure how to make it easier, I’m going to be going to see the doctor about doing something about my wrists (I suffer from pretty severe carpal tunnel at times), and its been quite bad recently. But I’m looking into doing what I can. After work my wrists have just been too messed up to work for any more than a few hours here and there on anything needing fine motor skills of my hands or clutching a mouse. I have tried to get people to help, but they have their own lives, and doing things for free.. well lets just say things haven’t been particularly timely. And since I can’t pay for any help, well I’m just going to have to struggle through it as best I can. The worst is the coloring, I could post pages ontime if they were just black and white… but then they would suck comparatively. Its hard to find a balance between quality and timeliness.

Anyway, If you want to see me work on this and ask me stuff, you can tune into my ustream cast which is Thursday nights at 8pm PST ( I know that’s late for you eastern folks, but I can’t do it any earlier…). If you just want to ask me random stuff, I recently got a formspring account, where random questions are the order of the day.

There is also a facebook group for Brymstone, and my Deviant art account where I post stuff like Ustream reminders and such if you have a DA account and want to watch me.

There’s also a new piece of fan art in the gallery here from Carl Davis of Infinity Komix. Not much at his site yet, but I’m sure it will get there. Thanks Carl!

Chapter 4 Pg3 is a post from: Brymstone – Online fantasy web manga.

Okay, back to the grind!

Needed some time off to sort stuff out and try to get some work out of the way, and I have now done so. Also new for 2010, we are going to try a Monday update schedule, and hopefully, that will actually give me enough time, with classes to get pages done on time.

So moving on, as promised, here’s the first page of 2010. Enjoy.

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Sorry I haven’t really gotten to update with a real page, but holidays and all sorts of crap sort of fell on me at once. You guys probably TAKE finals, but I get to MARK them. Anyway, here is some happy holidays from Rushe done on my shiny new computer, on a shiny new install of MangaStudio 4, with my EXTREMELY shiny Intuos 4 tablet. It is dead sexy.

Unfortunately my skills need to catch up a little with my equipment yet, so I’ll be working on that while building a buffer for the new year hopefully.

Anyway, cya in 2010.

Merry Xmas for 2009 is a post from: Brymstone – Online fantasy web manga.

Eh heh.. okay well this is sort of a cop out page, I may redo it later, but I wanted to at least have something. The next page will actually have real ink/drawing on it, but I didn’t want to not post something this week.

Depending I may leave or remove this page, but for now, it does serve a purpose, and oh yeah, Darshe’s narration is back, full force baby.

Happy belated turkey day to all my American readers/friends and have fun shopping today and what not.

Chapter 4 Pg 1 is a post from: Brymstone – Online fantasy web manga.

Okay, I cheated a little, but I got a new page up for you this week. Its a title page, but rest assured more story goodness is on its way.

This particular titlepage is pretty good in that it doesn’t actually give away much of this chapter, some of my others are kinda bad for it.. but hey, it looks pretty. I might fashion part of this into some kind of wallpaper… if nothing else to give that calendar something else to display aside from the comic press logo.

I’ve got a little poll going on in the sidebar here about which day you guys think I should update. I’m working on the weekly thing, but I’d like to know which day that people think is the best. Monday so far is looking the rosiest, but if you think it should be Friday, vote. If you think it should be something else, leave a comment!

Don’t forget to join the Brymstone Facebook Page! If you haven’t yet that is. Also, if you play CastleAge on Facebook, look me up.

Chapter 4 – A Problem In Pendajo is a post from: Brymstone – Online fantasy web manga.

And so it ends…

The chapter that is! WHOOT! FINALLY DONE! This makes me a very happy person indeed as now I get to move on to many wonderful things such as:

• introducing the last main character!
• revealing Rushe’s secret phobia!
• getting into the meat of the plot!
• blowing up stuff!

And the list is long indeed!

So Xmas is coming up, and I’m wondering if people would be interested in any Brymstone stuff for gifts and what not. Snarky T-shirts? Colorful calendars? Prodigious posters? Printed comics? Any suggestions or requests? I’m still pondering submitting a design for a toy to PatchTogether, but I’m not sure what yet. I thought Darshe might make a cool toy, but it I think I’d have to actually show some artwork to get people excited.

Also, I’m looking at doing something a little special for the holidays here at the site, for the fans, for the members that I can get in contact with at least. Maybe a little contest, or some kind of digital xmas goodies.  I’ll post more as this comes, but if there is something you’d like to see, or think would be a good gift to you, the readers, please, leave a comment.

*coughs* Yes, anyway, don’t forget you can become a fan of Brymstone on facebook, follow myself or Darshe on twitter, vote on TWC, or just show us link love by linking in your blog, facebook, myspace, whatever. There’s even nifty graphics.

Chapter 3 Pg 34 is a post from: Brymstone – Online fantasy web manga.

Well its almost 3 am, and I’m afraid I probably don’t have the most insightful blogging abilities at that ungodly time of the morning, but at least I did manage TWO comics this month, even if this one was a little off the schedule.

So to avoid saying too much weird stuff, I’ll just go ahead and let you get to the comic and hopefully edit this later.

I’d like to wish everyone a safe and happy Halloween. Don’t get too sick on the candy.

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I’m hoping however, with the proper medication, which I have now acquired from the doctor, this shall pass and I’ll be in a better state to work on comic stuff over the weekend, and I will endeavor to post something resembling a comic on Monday. If you are bored in the meanwhile, feel free to post some character discussion in the forums or something.

Okay, time to pass out again. Thanks for your patience.

Chapter 3 pg 33 delayed is a post from: Brymstone – Online fantasy web manga.

Well its friday and its been an exciting week. I’m teaching Photoshop and working full time (ya for two jobs..), my roommate was hit by a car, and my strata has decided I need to pay them a stupid sum of money I don’t have by November. Oh yeah, feel the awesome.

Only two more pages in this chapter kiddies, and we’ll finally be moving into the GODDAMN STORY. Can you tell I’m excited? In the next chapter I finally get to introduce the last main character for the first arc. WHOOT.

Okay, news stuff.

Darshe now has his own twitter. Become one of his minions and follow him. You know you want to. Darshe for the win.

Secondly, I keep meaning to mention this, but I’ve got some nifty linky buttons here, and I invite you guys to use them to link to Brymstone on whatever you use for a home/blog/space-on-the-web (its so damn subjective in these days of social media). I’ve also re-instated the ‘sharing’ bar that appears under each of these bloggy posts in order to make it easier for you to share Brymstone with the rest of your friends on facebook, twitter, myspace, digg, stumbleupon, whatever. If you are enjoying Brymstone, share the love!

The gallery is functioning now on this page, and I’ll be working to get Brymstone sketches and other art up on that page.

If you haven’t yet, you should check out the forums. There’s some fun character speculation going on and more people need to get in on this stuff. As the author its not really fair to speculate on my own story and characters, since I kinda know what’s going on. But I LOVE to see other people doing it! Yes, you need to register to use the forums, but as a perk your comments will appear instantly if you comment on the site. Ahhh, the benefits of membership.

Also, if you are facebook, you might like to become a fan of Brymstone.

Oh, and before I forget a bit shout out and thank you to all the people who’ve been commenting lately! Its a huge compliment and motivator in these hard times. ^^

Okay, I think I’m done now.

Chapter 3 Pg 32 is a post from: Brymstone – Online fantasy web manga.