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| Maybe not the chainmail | Oct 29, 2016 7:14 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:A blog entry with something in it! This is an ink sketch I sent to a reader for supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign:
A big thanks to them and everyone supporting A* through Patreon, they're really making it possible for me to keep bringing you new pages day in and day out. : D
(I made this sketch around the beginning of episode 29, so I also used it as a chance to try out a few costume ideas for Selenis for that episode. : )
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| Still no | Oct 28, 2016 12:31 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Another day, another nullity of a blog! : D I should at least have a little bonus sketch, next time.
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| Let's go all week! : P | Oct 26, 2016 10:45 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Still no blog time today. And tomorrow—well, Thursdays are usually my very worst day for that, so eh hm. Well, why interrupt a good streak? : P
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| Art vs Blog! | Oct 25, 2016 10:36 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Gah can't blog; art stole all my time, the little dickens. : p
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| In deep | Oct 24, 2016 11:03 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Just ordered more ultramarine blue watercolor (using my PayPal balance, which comes directly from people buying my A* art and e-books and supporting the comic through Patreon : ))—have a feeling I'm going to need it! : oo
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| For that distinguished air | Oct 22, 2016 7:56 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's a sketch I got to send to a reader for supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : ) :
Thanks everyone for your support, it means a lot! ^_^
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| A short entry! | Oct 20, 2016 11:27 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I'm not doing much of a job of blogging this week! Well what can ya do.
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| Episode 29 e-book now available | Oct 19, 2016 10:02 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The downloadable version of just-completed episode 29 is now available on the episode & e-books page! You can buy it there now or, if you're a supporter of my Patreon campaign at the e-book reward levels and can stand to wait until the beginning of next month, I'll be emailing you the download link for it directly. : )
Option 3! If you want to download the whole darn comic, you can pick up the SUPER EXPRESS PACK, available on that same episode & e-books page, which always contains all completed episode e-books—that's 29 episodes and 2,860 A* pages now!—for the single fixed price of $20.
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| Two eyes, two nostrils, and all | Oct 19, 2016 2:05 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Think I figured out something handy about watercolor painting in these last few pages, I guess tomorrow we'll see if I can put it into practice on purpose. : P
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| I'm gonna need more white ink | Oct 17, 2016 10:42 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:This painting got a little weird and I thought it was doomed a few times but maybe it actually turned out like something. : o
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| The power came back : ) | Oct 15, 2016 9:05 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Yay I got the page done despite a tiny power outage. : ) And here's a sketch I sent to a reader for supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign:
The support I get from readers through Patreon makes a huge difference! Thank you very much! : D
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| See which way the winds blow | Oct 13, 2016 9:45 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:My dad sent me a link leading to Cameron Beccario's near real-time*, interactive global map of wind currents on Earth. Click the globe to rotate it in any direction. You can see the storms lining up across the Pacific to smite me in Seattle! You can see Hurricane Nicole losing strength in the central Atlantic! You can see the turmoil in the oceans pretty much all around Antarctica!
* The page description says "See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours." The BBC page about the map says NASA was one of Beccario's data sources.
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| Super Typhoon Storm Watch! | Oct 12, 2016 11:51 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The forecast says it's gonna be stormy here in Seattle for the next three days; the power grid in my neighborhood has held up admirably through recent windstorms, so everything will *probably* be fine (and the worst of it, the remnant of Super Typhoon Songda, isn't supposed to arrive until Saturday, anyhow), but if you don't get a page or from me one of these next few days, blame the weather. :"P (Also, you could try checking my Twitter for a status update, since I should be able to post there from some device or other even if the power's out.)
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| Episode 30 begins! Purple noir? | Oct 12, 2016 12:05 AM PDT | url |
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Added 2 new A* pages:Here we go on our tridecennial episode. It mayyyy be the most noir-y one yet!
(I didn't get any more work done on wrapping up my episode 30 files and e-book stuff today 'cause I had five original A* pages to ship off to people at the post office! Two went to foreign parts! My post office has new custom forms now, they're bigger so you don't have to write as tiny! Thanks everyone who's been buying my art, sales have been way up lately! : D Okay I should go to bed now probably!)
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| End of episode 29! Ep. 30 starts tomorrow! | Oct 10, 2016 9:07 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:And that's the end of episode 29! I may not be blogging a whole lot for the next few days here as I work away at the boring stuff I do in wrapping up an episode—getting it out as an e-book and archiving the artwork, mostly—but the comic will continue right along with episode 30, starting tomorrow! Say goodbye to robo-fantasy land...
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| Must be laundry day | Oct 08, 2016 8:04 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's a sketch I got to send to a reader for supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign (support the comic! get cool rewards! : D):
Thank you very much! : )
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| Sunday at Sagittarius | Oct 06, 2016 9:05 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I found Sagittarius! (This being relevant since this webcomic is named after Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, situated in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius as seen from Earth : p.) Or at least, a reference to the astrological sign, on a large sundial here in Seattle's Gas Works Park:
It's a really elaborate and artsy concrete and metal sundial embedded in the ground on top of the observation hill in the park, which also has a great view of Lake Union and downtown Seattle. You find the current day's marking on a sort of oval metal track running around the middle of the sundial, then you stand there, make some adjustments noted with the numbers on the track (you can see them there for December in the photo), adjust for Daylight Savings Time, then see where your shadow points to on a ring running around the outside of the sundial, with the hours marked on it, and that's the current time of day! Neat. There's lots more about this sundial (and better photos) on Frans Mae's Sundial site.
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| Big House, cold scans | Oct 05, 2016 8:28 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:If you're interested in helping me make this comic, check out my Patreon campaign! Here's a sketch I got to send to a reader for their support through Patreon:
Thank you very much! : D
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Bonus! Maybe it's because the weather has turned colder, but my scanner was back to needing a warm-up scan today—because here's the creaky first scan it made:
: ooo
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| Rosetta ends mission on comet 67P | Oct 04, 2016 10:27 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Rosetta mission ends in comet collision (BBC) describes the pre-planned end of the ESA's Rosetta probe last week, after it had spent over two years orbiting and studying Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, despite the early loss of its Philae robot lander in a dark ditch on the comet's rough surface. Rosetta sent back close-up photos of the comiet during its slow final dive, and you can see those in the article.
Although the space mission has ended, scientists will be unpacking and studying the vast amount of data returned by Rosetta during its highly successful mission for years to come, seeking to puzzle apart the comet's composition and inner workings; understanding 67P's structure could tell us not only how these solar voyagers form—Rosetta found, for instance, that large parts of 67P were formed of piles of oblong ice balls several meters across, dubbed "dinosaur eggs"—but, furthermore, how our solar system as a whole formed: as an example, Rosetta discovered large amounts of molecular oxygen gas (O2) around the comet, which would seem to contradict "current solar system models" that "suggest the molecular oxygen should have disappeared by the time 67P was created, about 4.6 billion years ago in a violent and hot process that would have caused the oxygen to react with hydrogen and form water."
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| Another rotation of our planet | Oct 03, 2016 10:57 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I got a page done! And A* original page art boxed up and shipped off to people who won my eBay auctions! And that's about it, good night! :D
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| ~Under the sea~ | Oct 01, 2016 3:49 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:This comic would almost certainly not still be coming your way each day if it wasn't for the 49 great folks supporting it through my Patreon campaign. Even just a buck or two a month from a reader makes a *huge* difference to me! So a big thanks to all 49 of those folks! Here's a sketch I got to send to one of them for their support:
Thank you very much! ^_^
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