Busy Busy Busy: Or Why We Didn’t Update This Week

by on April 18, 2019 at 11:49 am

So, some of you may have noticed that there wasn’t an update this week. “After only 5 pages?” I hear some of you saying, (or maybe it’s just my own inner monologue.) But yes, we didn’t update this week because I have been busy with some extra weekend work for my day job. Weekends are when I tend to do most of my comic work, but I also have a wedding to pay for, so I can’t turn my nose up at paying work.

This extra busy-ness over weekend has the unfortunate side effect of leaving me pretty drained during the week, which also impacts my ability to get pages done. On top of that, I’m getting married in 4 months, and there’s still a decent amount of stuff that needs doing.

Because this extra work is likely going to carry through until the end of the month, maybe a little further, and I don’t want to blow through the buffer I have dealing with this, we’re skipping this week, and will update next week. From there, we’ll be updating every other week until I have my weekends back again.

Ideally this only affects this week, but I wanted to be up front with the plan in case it continues on.

Thanks for understanding

<3

Tyler

End Chapter Eleven

by on November 27, 2018 at 9:49 pm

And that is it! The end of Chapter Eleven. Hope everyone liked it because it’s all you’re getting until 2019!

We’re taking the holidays off to spend some more time with our families, get some more things drawn and done, and hopefully keep the momentum going with our plans to put things into a better direction. We’re really pivoting with this chapter. Personally I really liked the parable about Kazuo and his aimless questing to various towns, where he beats up of random bad guys. Yuki is a good friend. In a way it’s sort of indicative of our process of deciding where we want to go next. We don’t want to just be hundreds of pages of one guy beating up other guys, you know?

But where it goes from here I don’t even know. Jimmy’s working on what’s coming next now.

Until then, thank you, and we’ll see you in 2019.

<3

Tyler

A Review

by on October 3, 2018 at 1:07 pm

So, this blog stays mostly dormant, only really updating those of you that read it on when we’re taking breaks, or when there’s new merchandise, and I don’t really want that to be the transaction between us. So I’m going to endeavor to write more stuff here, treat it more like a blog. Talk about life, stuff I’ve been up to, etc. I’m going to encourage Jimmy to do the same.

So lately, as in for the past month, basically, in between the comic and wedding planning, I’ve been playing the new Spider-Man game. I actually used to review games “professionally” for a penny-per-click website way back in the day, and I really enjoyed it. Spider-Man kind of inspired me to do this again. So I did. It’s rambly, and maybe incoherent, but I did it.

When I read some of the preliminary reviews of Marvel’s Spider-Man, out now on PS4, almost all of them say in some way that “you feel like Spider-Man.” Which seems to be the least you should expect from a game centered around the wall crawler. But having now done literally everything in the game, it’s an apt if cliche statement. Beware Spoilers.

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New Things Coming

by on August 15, 2018 at 9:50 am

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up about a few things. First: we’ve got more merch! A new sleepy bunny design, for channeling those Monday coffee feels, and an inverted ! shirt.

Plus, Threadless has let us into a beta that allows for all-over printing, so I have some great ideas for that coming down the line.

Second: We’ve reached the end of the original script that Jimmy gave me back at the beginning of the year. I’ve got more script, but I really want to try something different with it. So we’re holding off on updating this week to give me a little more time to realize my vision for what’s coming next. I hope it turns out the way I want, and that you all dig it.

We’ll see you next week! Thank you for sticking around this long.

<3

Tyler

We’re Back. But What Does That Mean?

by on May 9, 2018 at 10:15 am

As you can hopefully tell by the brand new image above, we’re back. Picking up literally where we left off at the end of Chapter 10. It’s been the better part of 8 months away, and even if we account for November and December being taken up by stressful Holiday shenanigans, that’s still a 6 month break. So what have we been doing for the past 6 months?

Well, the short answer is “Stuff.”

The long answer is, I can’t speak for Jimmy, but I think we needed this break to just hang out, be buds, and not worry about the comic for a little while. We love making it, but first and foremost, it’s a hobby for us. We needed some time to just be friends, and find that balance again. We’ve played a lot of Overwatch, since going on hiatus. We sat down and played all of Metal Gear Solid 4 in  single night, and just generally had brotimes. It’s been good.

But we have worked on the story. Where we want it to go, and how we can refocus it, and we hope that you’ll see that refocusing in the coming weeks and months. I’ve also been working on merchandise, all available at intheyearoftherabbit.threadless.com We’ve got t-shirts, a long-sleeve Bunny shirt (your arms are the ears!) that I love, and an assortment of phone cases. Designs will be constantly evolving, and you can expect to see more stuff about that in the future and on Instagram.

Speaking of, on the Social Media front, we’ve pretty much abandoned Twitter. It’s just kind of a dumpster fire that neither Jimmy nor I want to deal with. I’ll be posting weekly updates on the Instagram and Facebook feeds, so if you want to see what we’re doing, that’s where to go. I’ll also be using the Instagram account as more of an art account. So you’ll see everything I’ve been working on, most of which will still be stuff for the comic but with other stuff sprinkled in there too.

It feels good to be back. I’ll be 30 tomorrow, so this is like a little early birthday gift to myself. I hope you guys like it.

Thanks for everything,

<3

Tyler