Beyond the Western Deep

Crim’s flexing his captain (and hero) chops here, but the canid patrol definitely doesn’t seem thrilled with the idea of losing the upper hand. While these soldiers may not yet know that war has been declared between their two kingdoms, they do know that the act of harboring ermehn–saying nothing of ermehn fugitives–is a crime in Aisling, and plenty of other canid patrols have “disappeared” ermehn and their sympathizers throughout the Four Kingdoms in areas not explicitly controlled by the canid themselves.

We’re Going on a Kickstarter Hiatus!

Bit of important news for regular followers of the comic: with our Volume 3 Kickstarter finally coming to the forefront in the coming weeks, we’ve decided to focus entirely on readying the Kickstarter campaign materials and getting everything primed for that–and then pushing right into thumbnailing and preproduction on the rest of chapter 4’s pages before we begin posting regular page updates again.

As you can imagine, thumbnailing a page and bringing it all the way to completion in a single week has always proven to be a tricky balancing act, even under the best of circumstances. Recently we’ve been pushing this to two weeks, to accommodate other projects like the Kickstarter and War of the Western Deep, but there’s simply nothing quite like being able to sit down and plan out an entire sequence start to finish–and that’s a luxury we haven’t been afforded in a long time.

To that end, we’ll be spending the next few months focusing on Kickstarter updates and the Kickstarter launch, the campaign itself, and then a period of time beyond that where updates may be scarce here for a bit, but new thumbnails will be in production for the remainder of Chapter 4.

We’ll be sharing regular updates on our social media page (which you can find and follow here), and you can get ready for more updates about the next Kickstarter campaign soon–we’ll have the launch date announcement here as soon as it’s locked in!