Added 5 new A* comics:

• A* Episode 7, Daily 93
• A* Episode 7, Daily 94
• A* Episode 7, Daily 95
• A* Episode 7, Daily 96
• A* Episode 7, Daily 97

Starting with episode 8, there are gonna be some changes since I won't have to worry about animating the art when I draw it. One thing that lets me do is think about increasing the size of the strips; would going from the current 717x300 to 956x400 be okay? It wouldn't be so great if your desktop is 800x600... Anyway let me know if you think that size would be a problem. Here's a mock-up of what that size increase would look like (click for the full sizes):

Added 5 new A* comics:

• A* Episode 7, Daily 98
• A* Episode 7, Daily 99
• A* Episode 7, Daily 100
• A* Episode 7, Daily 101
• A* Episode 7, Daily 102

In the animation, you'll see a hatch in the lower middle of that last comic swing open; doesn't really come across in the comic too well. Note to self: bigger hatches!

The back and forth panning exchange between Vero, the guard, and Selenis was a very wide drawing; the full width version is in the gallery, and you can click this tiny preview to get to it:



There's also a quarter-size 1050-pixel-wide version of it.

Added 4 new A* comics:

• A* Episode 7, Daily 103
• A* Episode 7, Daily 104
• A* Episode 7, Daily 105
• A* Episode 7, Daily 106

Kind of gross what with the blood today; I guess this is about as gory as A* has been, and I don't think it will ever be *worse* than this. At any rate I don't like to make a habit of it, but now and then a bit of a mess is necessary.

I added a couple banner versions of that recent super-wide panning scene to the icons page; there's this little one



and a slightly larger one. I'll probably use these to advertise A* once we move on to chapter 8; I wanted to get them made up now, though, because I needed to update the banners on A*'s various mirror sites, which were way out of date (remember that smiling proto-Selenis? ah youth). Anyway I don't mention them very often, and the links are always available on the about page, but it couldn't hurt to point out that A* comics go up on various other places on the web that you might also find handy for comic reading; personally I'd love you to read them here on the A* home page :D more than anything--and there's always extra news or art or other things here that don't make it onto the mirror sites--ooh and the strips always appear here at least a little while before they appear on the mirror sites--but if you want to venture elsewhere you'll also find A* comics

• on DrunkDuck
• on Smack Jeeves
• on ComicSpace
• on ComicFury

Ooh hey you can also just read it by subscribing to the A* RSS feed. So, lots of options for keeping up with the comic, and I hope you will as we move into the final chapters of Vero's story; it's going to be a rough ride for Vero, but hopefully a fun one for the rest of us!

Added 2 new A* comics:

• A* Episode 7, Daily 107
• A* Episode 7, Daily 108

D-aw only two today! But it's the weekend! If you need something more to do, check out my other weekday comic, Sketchy, which lit up this week, and my Sunday comic, The Princess and the Giant. You could also scrutinize the large version of today's first comic, which is in the gallery (click this tiny one to hop there):

I'm gonna have to be out most of the day & evening today; I'll try to squeeze in a A* episode 7 comic or two late tonight, but when I say late, I mean more like the wee hours of tomorrow morning. :D But you could go check out this week's new Princess and the Giant while you wait, and I even did up a little new -word- poem comic thing, too!

Added 2 new A* comics:

• A* Episode 7, Daily 109
• A* Episode 7, Daily 110

Only managed to squeeze in a few today. More tomorrow! But other comics you can check out right now are a new Princess and the Giant and a new, compact -word- poem thing involving Pac-Man and Indian food.

Added 2 new A* comics:

• A* Episode 7, Daily 111
• A* Episode 7, Daily 112

I'm gonna make more than just two A* comics today (honest!) but the end of episode 7 is coming up fast--I've got about 10 storyboards left to cover, which means maybe 10-12 more comics, probably--so I've gotta build up a buffer to cover the week+ that it'll take me to voice and animate the movie version. I haaaaate holding stuff back and giving it out slowly, but this is probably the last time it's gonna happen, since I won't be bothering with movie versions after this episode.

By the way you may notice that the comic browsing links have moved around a bit; hopefully this condensed scheme--they're all in the bar above the comic now, instead of being split with comic navigation above and episode navigation below--will be a little easier to use for most people, and more familiar to new readers from what's sort of standard among other webcomics. Conformity, it's finally getting me! Aaaa! But anyway the new look's a bit tidier, so that's nice.

Added 1 new A* comic:

• A* Episode 7, Daily 113

The daily dole of one measly comic per day while I build a buffer to get me through animation week! The torture! Last time we'll have to go through this, phew. At least this one is a pretty decent drawing; one of my better of Vero, I think. So I put a large version in the gallery, warts (actually those are supposed to be blood droplets!) and all; clickum to get to the big one:



Let's see I was also going to mention something actual... Oh! Two things in fact:
- IE 8 was putting useless scroll bars on about every other post in the A* forum. Man, how long had that been happening? I check the site with IE 8 but I guess not all that thoroughly (usually I'm on Firefox!). >_> Anyway it's fixed now as far as I can tell. If you ever have any weirdness like that in your browser on this site, let me know!
- On the front pages of my comic sites, you can now click the latest comic on display to be taken to the permanent address for that particular comic image.

Added 1 new A* comic:

• A* Episode 7, Daily 114

I've noticed that comics in which the characters have secret crushes on each other are popular! So let's say that Selenis had a secret crush on Vero and now the manly way he stood up to her has fanned the flames of her ardor into a searing conflagration! When will she tell him her true feelings?!?

And I actually had something semi-serious to say, which is that... Wait... Oh yeah, that since episode 7 will be the last animated episode for the foreseeable future, and I'm probably going to be wrapping up the credits next week, now would be a good time to toss me five beans (I mean $5) and get your name (and website, if you want!) in the credits as a full-fledged A* supporter! It's rad and stuff (at least I think so >_>) and this may be the last chance ever! And you can do it super-easily through the gold button on the support page.

Anyway I'll be announcing the actual contribution deadline for the episode probably early next week once I've got the art done and have a better idea of when I'll be finishing up the animation.

Secret cruuuuuuuuush!

Wave that red herring all you want. We all know that Proctor is the Smithers to Mar's Burns.