I realized as I was lettering this the line she's talking about here, that he said "not long ago", was said in 2019 Earf time, and I almost couldn't crawl back out from under the desk.
But anyway back to updating in under a weeeeek
Zoom. I may go back, honestly, to a page a week though and .... [I can hardly believe I'm typing this and believing it as I do] rebuffering.
2022-03-01 20:21:46 +0000 UTC View PostHunter was of the opinion all these Midwestern towns looked alike and for the most part Sun Prairie didn’t do much to turn him from this line of thinking. Indeed, it was very like Lookback: another little huddled main street afloat in a yellow ocean of grass, though this one perched on a short bluff overlooking a valley full of its eponymous sun flowers. It had a bigger hotel than Lookback had, though, probably owing to gawpers coming to see the aforementioned blooms, and while it was only ...
2021-12-03 16:51:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hunter ranch was hardly more than a homestead, really; they sold very little of their beef and occasionally one of their fancier-looking colts and mostly just made do, but they did have their own brand—the Tumbling JHH — and could afford to pay a ranchhand and his daughter, who mostly helped out Claudia Hunter and looked after the chickens and lent a hand with milking a few dairy cows.
The rancher’s daughter, Ellen Cauley, after her dead ma, tended to be the one that got sent ...
2021-12-03 16:49:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt was early evening when the big gray stallion crested the last ridge before Lookback, a small but clean cowtown at the floor of a gentle, wide open valley: the easternmost fringe of the western wilds. This was the first place free ranging cattle had been in evidence, wandering and foraging the rolling, grassy drumlins amongst spare, scattered cedars and their long purple shadows.
Lookback itself was a low-built, vaguely T-shaped collection of pine buildings, bordering on rustic. Nary ...
2021-12-03 16:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Starting in September, I started picking at the NTO novelization. Again. I love writing, way more than I love the work of drawing if not sequential art, and the fact is I functionally quit prose writing almost 10 years ago. It is so fun, though, and I love it.
Longtime Patrons will recall that twice (more?) I have apologetically posted snippets and excerpts from this when I'd intermittently revisit it to scratch my prose writing itch and keep me invested in this story that I've be...
2021-12-03 16:39:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The not-quite-diagetic facing page from the most recent comic. I wasn't sure if some lorem ipsum might be too recognizable at various resolutions so I ... improvised.
2021-09-27 19:02:06 +0000 UTC View Post
A mere two weeks later!
You may be interested to know that the next page is the last in the chapter, after which begins #13: the last.
2021-09-27 18:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m overdue to make some kind of blog post addressing the state of the comic and I, and a new year seems like as good a time as any. Scroll to the bottom line if you’re not interested in what will probably amount to a blow-by-blow of 2020.
First of all let’s not mince words: last year was a catastrophe as far as Next Town Over was concerned in addition to being a disaster all around. Heading into 2020 I felt like I was heading into the homestret...
2021-01-13 02:04:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Still here! Almost made it through 2020 and I hope you have, too!
2020-11-16 05:26:08 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! While your October pledges have just processed (thank you!) I've decided to freeze Patreon billing for November and potentially also December as well. This does not mean I've given up on updating the comic during this time; I've just been grappling with your pledges being predicated on 4 NTO updates a month + extras, and in the midst of virtual school and other goings-on I haven't been hitting that target in awhile. I'm also unlikely to pick up the pace heading into the eve...
2020-10-01 19:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post
