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.

Chapter 4 Pg 2 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.