18 Dec 22 Update

Hey everyone!

I tried recording this a few hours ago and I've been having issues so its going to be a huge text block for now so apologies.

First the good news!
1) We've raised about $100 for Toys for Tots! Thanks to everyone that bought ornaments! I'll be posting the receipt of the donation in discord here shortly.
2) RAGS 9 - we have two more pages to work on, both inks, backgrounds and colors
3) A few bonus pages are also in que to get worked on. They'll be semi-colored.
4) NSFW bonus books have been oreded and are on their way. Keep an eye out for tracking emails. should go through January.
5) Jan - Feb will be AH plus RAGS 9 as it finishes. Tentatively* as we'll get to this further below.

Bad News:
1) In trying to catch up and cover down on the work that was generate when our last colorist was fired, Luigi hurt his hand. He's resting it right now but the good news (see 2 above) is were nearly at the finish line but have just minor tweaks and things to do before the issue is ready.
2) Luigi and I are currently both burnt out. I normally wouldn't say this...but this year has been absolutely brutal to both of us and is probably our worst year of output since starting 6 years ago. On my end, I trusted the wrong person to behave professionally and unfortunately they acted as my guy predicted and its put us in this crunch situation.
3) I've pulled back from social media most of this month to focus on getting issue 9 ready and ensure all alibi's delinquent books are either on order or shipped...and now its waiting on the production and shipping side to do their part.

The intermission:

1) Some of you may have already recieved the new stickers. There will be more items like this coming soon as the months go on.

2) Things at the begining of next year will be a slog up until mid year. After that, fingers crossed, I'll be pushing things into high gear and running hard until mid-year 2024. What does that mean for ya'll? Updates will be few and far inbetween as we're going to tie our headbands and go head first into just drawing and pushing and pushing. The goal is to wrap up this arc as quickly as possible and then jump onto what we always wanted to do.

3) Just going to reiterate, STW 8 and this current story arc will be the LAST Cross-over stories or plots we're going to entertain or be involved in.  You may see Regina appear in other works later, but we will be mininmally involved as we just want to tell her and Operator's story without interferance. We're also (me mostly) will probably pull away from the indie comic scene as I find other creators to be detrimental to getting things donw in a timely manner.

Stuff I missed:
Mrs. H, my former prom date has a crowdfunded Kickstarter that's ready to go: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kappakafestudio/the-adventures-of-captain-orange-issue-12

Tree-Man - Congrats on your daughter for getting accepted into college!

Xelquin -Congrats on that new promotion! You deserve it!

ABCBrooks - Grats on the Dawgs being champions.

Mi novia - Te amo.

More to follow in discord. Everyone have a happy and safe holiday and I hope to have something substantial for you soon.