This Week in the Author's Tier

Good week to you, Chochachos! We've had our once-in-a-decade cold snap here in Portland, with a low so low it froze my favorite pipe to the kitchen, and also prevented me from attending a deeply-attractive pig roast. Sure, 16 degrees Fahrenheit won't impress about 2/3 of the country, but that just ain't something we do here. We stay home, terrified of how bad the other drivers will be. (At the best of times, our fellow drivers are peaking on a 100-milligram edible called Danny I'm The Enemy while watching Mr. Beast give away moderately-resourced island nations; add icy roads and low visibility, and we have sad headlines for days.) 

Coming up in a week or so is a piece I started writing (with illustrations) for an Oni Press softcover rerelease of The Great Outdoor Fight, which was to be handed out at all the summer 2020 comicons, to create hype for the massive anthology series. As we all know, man plans god laughs, and none of that actually happened. The piece itself chronicles a rough interpersonal period between Ray and Roast Beef, following their victory at the GOF. Look for it very soon. (I'm evenly divided on whether this should be canon, so for now it's only going in the Author's Tier.) 

I also haven't forgotten I owe you all the part 3 of the Netflix saga. That's been reopened as well, with many fun photos. 

I'll also release part 2/4 of the Portland Soda Works autobiographical history this week. This was a long and deep core personal journey. Writing it out like this creates the only official record of this massive experiment, and also shows me what qualities it brought out in me (not all admirable), and what those few special souls who arose along the path shared that I worked to keep. (It definitely helped me confirm that all marketing agencies are full of shit, but don't go thinking the current story with Tina and Téodor is from that particular experience; no no, I've been through both sides of that mill many times.)

Question for you: I'm currently releasing the prose pieces here as PDFs. But is that a good format for you to read them, or would you prefer the text just be pasted in here, like this paragraph? I'm using PDFs so I can make them look nicer, but I recognize they might be a pain in the neck to read on devices. Please comment!