August-September Update (Next video((s!))

Heya Gang!

So the last two months ended up being really, really productive.

I didn't properly update in August for a couple of reasons- the main one being that I was deciding on the order to release my behind the scenes content for the first episode of The Thunderbolts Story, and didn't really want to say anything until that was sorted, and while most of it is, two things are not.

Some of that has been published now- The first was the write up, which you've seen, and then the Q&A video, which is out, but what I really wanted done was the Timeline Tour and the Commentary. Both are recorded and the Commentary is edited, but as mentioned the Tour is a bit trickier to make and I want to cross reference both again- at this point I'm debating getting the commentary out first just to have it crossed off my list and to give the Tour better focus. Bloopers are done but need visuals, And of course, work on Episode 2 rumbles on, as I continue to edit audio and block out the sequences. Quite a bit still to figure out, as you can tell.

However, in that time, I've also been writing like a demon. Last time I talked about finishing drafts I'd already written, for videos both long and short, and with fresh eyes I felt like I could see the fixes they needed and started final drafts. Four of those were completed, three of those were recorded, and I was so in the flow of things I even managed to come up with a whole new video, so that's five projects ready to be fed through the pipeline. I also looked at a couple of long-ongoing things and started shaping those out too, so we're in a really good place to keep things going.

The three recorded videos are all short ones about video games, the timeline above being the first of those. As you can see it's really close to complete, it just needs some tweaks that will round it out and then I should be ready to drop it in the next week or so. The next one is Halloween related so I really want to prioritise that for this month, and the third I'm going to hold off on until later and switch focus to the new video I wrote, which will also work really well for the month, though it's not the end of the world if we miss that (Even the next video is, somehow, slightly Halloween related). None of these are difficult to make at all, most of the work having gone into the writing and audio, so hopefully the next two will come together as quickly as the first.

Following the math so far? If it seems kinda rammed it's because I was trying to follow my impulse to write while it was strong, and then push myself to get them recorded as soon as I felt they were good, trust myself a little more. After months of working on a single video it's been really freeing helping me flex my creative muscles a bit, and it's amazing how much the normal video-making process seems so much easier after a monster like the last one, like going down in weights or something, and all of it will feed back into improving the next TBS Episode.

This does suggest to me that Episode 2 will probably not be out this year, but I do think we'll have quite a lot of it underway by the end of 2025. I've of course been bouncing back and forth to that script as well and am pretty happy with it, so, when I've put out these other videos and can afford to slow down a little, I'll be trying to get that recorded very soon as well. I've had some offers of help on the animation alongside my existing artists so I have a good game plan for production, which should also help speed things up immensely.

After some very rough months, the last two have been extremely promising, so hopefully you'll enjoy the stuff I've cooked up. I stress again that these are an extremely varied set of subjects, and I'm not expecting any of them to do huge numbers, but the new one I came up with is comic book adjacent in a way that doesn't betray the other mediums I discuss, so I'm quite pleased that's finally come together. Nothing groundbreaking, just me talking about something I really like (for the second time) in a more traditional, Youtuber format, because why not.

Thank you all for your continued patience and support, and I'll see you real soon for the next video!!

-B