After giving it some thought. If there’s a holiday, we’re probably gonna take the week off or put up some filler. For Halloween it’s the former. Not only is it Halloween, it’s also my parents anniversary (number omitted because I don’t remember and am slightly embarrassed by it) So we’re off this week, please enjoy the same image as last week!
Happy Halloween! See you next week!
Except we do…
I don’t plan on making things like this a regular occurrence, but I’ve loved Back to the Future since I was a kid, along with many of you. So it’s not much, but this is my little homage for Back to the Future Day. We still need roads, we don’t have hoverboards, or Pepsi Perfect (except for some of you, and the rest of the world is pissed, apparently. Way to go Pepsi) and fashion isn’t quite what they predicted, but as Doc would say, it just means the future hasn’t been written yet. Maybe we’ll get lucky and as we’re going about our day today we’ll start to see the future happen. But no matter what future we get, thanks for reading.
<3
Tyler
We’re back, baby.
But things are still gonna be a little rocky.
I’m unemployed now. While that seems like it’d just be “comic art 4 dayz!” I will in fact be spending as much time looking for a new job as I am drawing the comic. Generally my life is a bit more hectic now than it was when I was a lonely bachelor. On top of typical social life things, I’m also going to be going back to school come January, so things might get hairy again. To account for this we may take a week off here and there as necessary instead of taking month(s) off. I’ve been getting back up to my normal output of roughly a page a week/week and a half so I don’t really see this as being a big problem. Jimmy’s been working on scripts, probably, and I’ve been planning out pages for stories that aren’t even done yet, so I’m hoping we’ll start our second year off strong.
Thank you for being patient. Thank you for being amazing. Thank you for reading.
<3
Tyler
So I didn’t think it’d happen, but someone came forward and made us some fan art!
The above image is by the supremely talented Crista Gerzevske, you can find more of her work at http://coalescency.tumblr.com/
It was my hope to never need to have this conversation with you. Like a parent dreading the day they have to explain death to their child, or have “the talk” with them, all the while knowing it has to happen eventually, so too did I dread this inevitability.
We’re going on hiatus.
It’s not uncommon for webcomics to go on hiatus, even the big guys do it every now and then. And hey, we made it a year and a half solid! I’m really damn proud of that. But it was going to happen sooner or later.
It’s my fault. Jimmy writes and is pretty good at getting me scripts when I need them, but I make the pretty pictures. No pretty pictures, no comic. Up until the past few months I’ve always been able to work at pace with or faster than we churned them out. But, at 27 I decided it was high time I got myself into college and I decided to take 4 fast-paced online courses and well… Comics started getting published a lot faster than I could draw them. I knew that was going to be a risk, but I needed to take it for the sake of my own future.
But fear not! We WILL NOT be a webcomic lost to time. Jimmy and I both agreed this was the right move to make and we both want to keep telling our story of loss and regret and redemption. Kazuo Saito and Little One will be coming back and it is my hope to start publishing again at the start of August with more buffer to help me out during my next semester than I had for this one.
On top of that, we’ve begun super early work on a new project, something way different that we hope to share as a complete story down the line somewhere. I’ll post little bits of art for it when I get around to it. In the Year of the Rabbit takes trip priority, though.
In the mean time I’d like to open the floor to you guys. Anybody out there wanna draw some fan art? Or a guest comic? Or even if you’ve just got something you’d like to say, drop us a line at intheyearoftherabbit [at] gmail [dot] com. I know it’ll help me feel a little better about leaving you, and the comic, in the sad place it’s in at the end of Chapter 7.
Thanks for understanding
<3
Tyler