September 4th, 2007
I know, It's been a whole year since I posted any comic. Well I know that you all were wondering where I was, why I didn't update. Not to mention if I'm alive. Yes I am alive. So you must all be wondering where I was and why I didn't update for a year, well it's a long story.

Last time I updated it was just after Trinoc*coN 2006. I also started a new job working at a call center at that time. Well I have now been there for over a year. I'm making decent money working for now the new AT&T's warranty department. This has worn me out to say the least. It is a job where right after work you need to relax. My job seems to consist of people screaming at me requesting different phones and me telling them no. It's high stress and rather aggrevating. But I oddly enough enjoy the job for the most part... even though I'll scream out that I hate this job. As soon as I get home I'm pretty much dead tired. Now there are a few reasons for that. Obviously work wearing me out is one, but lately I've been having a lot of medical issues. Most of these are causing chronic fatigue, weakness, and pain. Being that I'm only 24, it makes me wonder why I have something that makes me feel like I'm in my late 80's or something around that. I've been seeing doctors... a lot. Thankfully though, I have good benefits at work, so I can be covered. I will be fine after they figure out what is causing this so it can be treated.

Now why I haven't updated is not too far from what I explained. I have worked a lot which little vacation in between. I went through a lot of medical issues that left me too weak to work. I have had a lot of writer's block, artist's block and a few things of laziness. I started World of Warcraft, then pretty much quit a month into it cause it bored me to hell (yes I said it, WoW BORES ME, I thought Final Fantasy XI was more fun). I bought a PSP and DS to keep me busy (which they have rather well). I also got a few other stories thought up (nothing went past the concept point though). Anytime I had a reason to draw, something would come up. Most of the most recents strips were drawn 2 years ago in a coffee shop.

Many were wondering if I'm going to go back to Trinoc*coN again, well that is depending if I'm invited again or not. I didn't go in 2007 due to a wedding I had to go to. Sorry guys, my best friend's wedding is far too important to miss. Besides, she'd never forgive me if I did. But if I am invited then I most likely will go, I like to have my vacation too and so Trinoc*coN is a good way to do it. I wouldn't mind going to Comic Con, but being that I'm no longer in California, it does make going to it rather hard.

Anyone that sent me fan art. You may need to resend it, gmail had a few problems with some spam that I had to clear. Just remember you MUST put FTOF - Comic: So I don't think it's spam, otherwise I will not read or open it, just delete.

Either way though that is the just general run down. So Hi!

August 14th, 2006
I got a new fan art for the gallery. She did a really good job, thank you for the submission. There is also a new background available in the gallery too. This is one of my favorites actually. I had it ready for a while, but I never remembered to post it. I'll try to work on the next background soon though. No promises though.

Also I am going to try to revamp the site again, this is going to take a while so don't expect to see the stuff anytime soon. But I will be redoing this site to make it easier to navigate and easier to update. I am also going to revamp the forums in this manner as well. I already made some changes. But I will be adding one thing though that will be needed, a moderator. Keeping track of the forums everyday is not easy, especially when my internet access is VERY limited. I have a few people in mind, but I want to wait till the forums are revamped before I choose. If you are interested in moderating the forums then PM me in the forum. I'll only have one mod for now, until the forums get rather populated so that I will need more than a mod and an admin.

August 8th, 2006
I can't seem to make an update on the news without my compute resetting for some reason. Anyways, I want to announce 2 fan arts added to the gallery. This is at least better than having just 4 pieces of fan art, yes and it seems that I haven't gotten new fan art since 2003. Come on, when the last fan art is done back when I first started, I kinda wonder if there are fans out there. Thankfully there are.

I also have been trying to get the next strip worked on, and no I am not giving you a date. Last few times I did that, I wasn't on time... heck most of these I never get on time. A lot of you are probably annoyed at how I'm doing things in black and white now. Well it's either that or nothing at all. I can't seem to color them without taking forever, and I'm at least getting MORE out than before with this... though that still doesn't say much. Either way, I'm not coloring unless I find a good reason to, or I have a lot of time to. I'm not perfect but oh well.

As for my life right now, this has been a rather aggrevating bit due to multiple problems. Between relationships, finances, a new job, and recovering from Trinoc*coN; I think I've pretty much had my soul sucked dry. Main issue though is finances. I have been trying as hard as possible to make bills, but the problem with that is the new job. I just found out today that I won't get a paycheck until the 25th. When you are hit with that, it kinda hurts. Especially when a hospital is sucking your wallet like a leech. I usually don't have problems with that, but the convention really left me with no money at all. I barely made rent, and after I got the last paycheck from Target, I realized that I won't have enough for medical bills, electric, phone, paying off the credit card and for food. It's not a fun thing. I'm trying to get the medical bills pushed two weeks so that I can have the money by then, but it isn't working in my favor right now. Either way, it's been stressful and tiresome. Speaking of tired, this new job has left me with little sleep. I'm not a fan of waking up at 4am to catch a bus at 5am, to get to work at 6am. I have to go to bed at 8pm just to get my 8 hours of sleep. It's not something I'm used to, especially being a night owl that I am, plus the fact that worked closing shifts at Target and usually getting home between midnight and 1am. So I'm basically inverting my sleep schedule completely just to work, not function, just work.

I still didn't tell all of you how Trinoc*coN went (well I tried but this stupid computer... grrr). Lets just say that it was a vacation that I NEEDED. I got to meet some of the coolest people, both fans, and artists, and other people. There were returning guests, and returning attendees, many of which I remember. Plus this year I got to meet Erin Lindsey. I've been wanting to meet her since day one. I can sum her up in just two words, "SHE ROCKS!!!" Her and Jenn tend to make the con more humoring than a bunch of clowns getting hit by trains (and NOT having them live), and that is pretty freaking funny! But then there were a fe others there that made things fun, Greg Eatroff, Chris Hazelton, Loren Coven. I just need to remember to bring harder liquor next year. I don't drink, but when you can watch a bunch of transsexual web comic artists playing Drunken Munchkin completely wasted to no end, it can make your world go round. After a while it was making me wonder if this was going to turn into Strip Drunken Munchkin. A game played in a way so insane, I'm surprised it hasn't been banned in 50% of the states by conservative "I hate everything" politics (just give it a few months). I also put a painting up in the art auction, now although I didn't sell the painting, I won third place for Amateur 2D art at the art show. Considering the amount of piece of art there, that says a lot. It was my first painting I've ever done, but not only that it's the first piece of art that I've done that has won any sort of award. It really gives me confidence to continue painting and do other fun things with art. I want to mention that I also had the pleasure and honor of watching Erin Lindsey propose marriage to her now 'fiance'. This moment was so wonderful and touching that I couldn't really stop crying, heck even typing this sentence is getting me teary eyed. Congratuations you two, I want to wish you the best... that and wish that Bush pulls his head out of his butt with the whole gay marriage thing. Also I bought a few fun things this year too. I bought the first book of Sin City. If you watched the movie, I'd still advise you get the books. It is pretty much exact, word for word, scene for scene. But the art and the way it was done is just too awesome. I also picked up lots of comics from the other artists, even got them signed. If things go well, and I'm not invited to other cons this year, then I will most likely come back. But I want to end this note with some thank you comments. First is to the fans who showed up. After what has happened last year, and also with my lack of updates, I want to apologize for all of that, but I want to thank you for still having faith in the con and in me. Thank you for showing up. Then I'd like to thank Jamie Robertson and Mike Moon, who ran the con. They made this year far better than 2005, and they did a good job in making things right again. Thank you both for making it worth the hundreds of dollars for me to attend. Finally I want to thank Sherri Belmar (CAT) , this artist of Venus Ascending has made this convention spectacular. She's done so much for not just me, not just the guests, but the entire con. She helped everyone out in some really tight spots. For me and a few other artists, she helped pay for the rooms among other things. For the con, she brought back the wonderful group "Three Quarter Ale". And she's also made things fun for everyone with her humoring and friendly personality. She flew all the way from Europe just to come to the con. This list goes on with what she's done for us. So I'd like to give a HUGE thank you to Sherri.

Finally this is going to be in bold, all caps, and other stuff. PLEASE E-MAIL ME WITH THE SUBJECT "FTOF - COMIC:" AS THE BEGINNING OF THE SUBJECT. I get about 5-10 pieces of spam a day send to the main inbox instead of the spam box, and about 4 times as much sent to the spam box. Now I'd like to make it without getting a virus on my computer or any computer that I'm using to check the email. So if you send email use that subject title as the beginning so I don't have to guess if it's spam or not. I don't get the standard "MAKE YOUR PENIS BIGGER" emails... actually I do get that to... but those do get emailed to the spam, I usually get things that have attachments and are from people with normal names with normal subject headers. Being that this is a email account for you as the fans to send to, I can't tell if those emails are from you or from some prick that thinks viruses are funny. THEY AREN'T. So once again PLEASE E-MAIL ME WITH THE SUBJECT "FTOF - COMIC:" AS THE BEGINNING OF THE SUBJECT.

July 16th, 2006
Only a few days left before Trinoc*coN. So I hope at least SOME of you are going, so that you can tell me in person how bad I am at updating. Don't worry though, at least some of the other comic guests can tell me, and knowing how this will work Erin Lindsey will be the first to do so. Now if any of you are wondering anything about the convention, then you obviously haven't read the last few news posts (which I don't see how you could miss it since it's been there for HOW many months now?)

Now what I'm going to be doing at the con is a bit more than last year, for one, I have paintings to sell, though I hope I can finish this other one in time. So far one of them is finished (might I add that it wasn't easy being that I haven't painted since elementary school, and I only did it cause school told me so). I am trying to fix a printing problem on my computer that can allow me to print out on 4x6 photo paper. For some stupid reason, the printer wants to print half of it on the paper and the other half on the roller that is in the printer... it sucks. If I have that finished then I can sell those prints and paintings at the con. I also will have commissions at the con opened up, but these are only at the con (I don't have online commissions ready to do yet). Now another thing to mention is that I am going to be going to a lot of panels so if you don't see me at my table, then I'm at a panel that I'm scheduled for. But if I'm not at a panel, then I might have either gone to my room, gotten food, or I'm hanging out with a few con guests. Though the outside stuff might be done in the evening after the artists alley spot is closed down for the night (usually at 6pm).

Now I know that I suck at updating, and I even suck more at keeping promises (which is why I don't ever actually PROMISE anything), but I did get the comic up, and I know it's not in color, but I am realizing that coloring the comics are what is holding me back a lot. I am a colorblind artist that doesn't like to deal with colors all the time, they are difficult, time consuming and aggrevating. Originally I was going to stop coloring at the end of the chapter, but I looked at how many pages I have left in the chapter and how many months I haven't updated and weighed out this, "COLORING SUCKS!!!"

Also my life tends to take priority over the comic, I can't do what the artist of Something Positive did (I know his name, I just don't want to have to embarass myself with spelling it wrong), by daring his readers to donate his incoming salary to pay off his life expences (which he did mostly as a joke, but they donated and he lives off of it). Now I did get a new job that will start August 7th, so I can actually quit my job at Target and actually make a decent amount of money at a job with full time hours, and STEADY hours for that matter. I HOPE that I can use this time to actually work on the now greyscale comic, but don't count on it. I don't know how this will go. But I still can't promise a single thing to you all.

Also, I'm going to ask you to do something new for my email. Considering the amount of spam I get, I am going to ask ALL of you that wish to email me to put in a subject pertaining to the comic in a way that spammers are not going to hit me with spam all the time, I get about 500 spam a week and honestly that makes sorting through the viruses, junk, advertisements and other crap rather dangerous and tedious. So for a subject you will need to put in the beginning the words "FTOF - Comic". That way I don't delete fanmail.

May 11th, 2006
Ok everyone, just to let you know, I had a bit of a script error in my last strip, one of my fans caught it and I didn't. So after it was pointed out to me, I decided to fix it. That line isn't supposed to say "This is for my sister". It was late and I was tired so my brain didn't want to cooperate with me. Now it's been fixed to now say "This is for Sarah". Hope there isn't any confusion, and sorry for the error. I think I should stop working on my comic at 3 in the morning when my brain is half asleep (knowing me though, I'll probably do it again though). Anyways, it's fixed.

I'll get the next one started after I recover from the flu. Yes, I once again got the flu. When you are a cashier at Target, germs are a common encounter. Either way, I'll get the next strip up later. Working on a computer while sick isn't fun (especially if you are sitting on the floor like me).