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I’ve always admired people that know how to program. These people make things come alive by typing some weird mumbo jumbo into a text editor, or whatever they use. All I know is that it’s all text and I don’t have the slightest clue how they do it. Okay, I know SOME programming, if you count HTML… (x_x;) I also know some CSS (does that count as programming?) and some Actionscript 3, which is very fun to work with. I only know the basics though… I’m thinking about learning more about it after I’m done with this comic and I’ve gotten settled in my new apartment and all that. I’ve actually got some verrrry easy things done with AS3, and what I love about programming is the feeling of joy when the things you’ve done are actually working. And the more complicated it gets, the bigger the joy :)
I think I’ve already mentioned this, but I really want to start making my own games, you know. It’s a dream I’ve had since I was a kid. I know it’s NOT impossible, but you have to be smart to do it. And you have to know some math too I think…
I’M TRYING TO THINK BUT NOTHING’S HAPPENING… hah!, just kidding :D That was just something I heard on the Howard Stern Show the other day. It’s some kind of sound effect they play sometimes, and I thought it kind of sums up how I feel when I try to program :p

Well… it’s getting late, so I think I’m going to wrap things up here, watch some “Happy Console Gamer” on YouTube (EXCELLENT video-game-review-guy), while practicing my drawing skills and head to bed.

Enjoy the comic!
/T

PS: That’s hot chocolate their drinking. I’ll add a note to the page later… (＾ω＾;)

Yo!

My throat hurts and I’m feeling cold, does that mean I’m going to be sick? (+ _ + ) Hm, I hope it passes…

Anyways, you know what day it is today? Today it’s exactly one year since I uploaded the very FIRST page of this comic you’re hopefully reading now. However, I remember that I had a bunch of pages that I uploaded at one time and I think I changed the dates on them all, because I think that Wordpress (or ComicPress, which is the theme I’m using) only allows one post per day, or something like that. But, let’s just make things easy and say that the official “birth” of the comic was on March 10th, 2009! So, yay!! (^▽^)

I haven’t had time to plan anything special for the occasion, but I’ll see what I can come up with – if anything! :p

Anyways, enjoy the comic, wish Pierre a happy birthday(?) and I’ll see you next time :D
/T

Yo!

As a rule of thumb, when you’re planning your panel layouts, try to limit the number of panels on each page to five or maybe six at most.

As you can see in this page, I’ve used a whole of eight panels – if you count the small ones, which I usually do! Using this many panels tend to make the page feel crammed and hard to read, which of course is not what you want. I used to do this A LOT when I first started working on this comic, but after reading up on the subject, I try to avoid it as much as possible.
But, if you have a good reason to do it, then go ahead! My reason for putting this many panels in this page, for example, is because I felt I wanted to let the characters say what they had to say BEFORE the big surprise that takes place in the next page.
In other words, in order to give the next page more impact, I sacrificed a bit of readability in this… We’ll see if it works out as planned (^ v ^ ;) Even though I’ve already made 30 pages, I’m still learning, hihi!

Stay tuned and enjoy the comic!
/T