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Five hundred pages of Order of Tales are on the site today! Still have a ways to go, too. We're at the 'way-room' on the pillar that leads to the Tower City. The pillars are so tall that these rooms are in place for people to stay as they're climbing up them. I like the idea of these massive, mysterious structures, and I think it's pretty hard to convey the sense of SCALE that I have in mind in comics.

The next short story is over half paid for, at 159 of 300 USD as I write this. It will probably be paid for before I finish drawing it. There is a possibility that I have given myself too much work, but it is at least work that I really really like.

I've been reading a bunch of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories from the 1930s. They are really very fun stories, and it's surprising how varied they are, for all dealing with the same character. I love the idea of a bunch of loosely-connected stories dealing with episodes throughout one character's life... I think this is sort of what I'd like to do with some future short stories about T-O-E and Cal.

I'm having fun with this setting, weird as it is. The fairly simple, geometric design of the pillar is something that's interesting to play with... Showing it in different ways so that it becomes a more abstract thing. I hope that this sequence of climbing the pillar doesn't seem too awfully long for those of you reading with every update! New things will be seen soon. Also, on Wednesday the 500th page of OoT will be online.

I have come to the conclusion that the NEXT short story will feature Huff, a character that appears very briefly in Rice Boy, and about which I still have a bit to say. It will be put online when 300 USD of donations is reached, or when I finish drawing it. Neat!

Hey have you read the latest little comic by Yuko and Ananth at Johnny Wander? It is called 'Delilah and the Basilisk,' you can start reading it right here, and if you don't like it then I think there is probably something wrong with you.

This week I talked to a bunch of students at Asheville High School about comics! I gave the same talk to six classes and it was actually super fun. High school students seem to have gotten a lot cooler since I was one.

Here's more pages! Koark is approaching the pillars, and it is a very very long way up.

Look at this cool thing I found! Dash Shaw has a great cartoon miniseries up at IFC, called The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD. It is a little obtuse and weird, but full of very good ideas... like his comics, I guess. I really liked it.

Thank you for reading. More pages Sunday.

Approaching the Tower City, called also Terassir. I am happy with the design of this place and I hope you enjoy reading as we see more of it.

Oh hey! A few days ago I put up a new short story, The Tethered Isle! This is one I finished a few months ago, and I put it up as soon as the first donation goal was met. The NEXT short story has not been drawn yet, but donations from now on go towards its goal of 300 USD. I'll let you know what the new story is about when I've made a bit of progress! I really appreciate everyone's support with this new project! It's very exciting!

The inevitable file-formatting problem in the production of Book 2 of OoT has been solved, and the books are being printed. Will be filling more of your shelf space soon. More pages Wednesday!