I’ve been struggling with scripts lately, and finally wrote both the ending to Book IV and the beginning to Book V. Between scripts, pencils, inks, and colored stuff I’ve got a full four weeks of story unfolding in front of me. Now I just need to sit down and draw it all.
Then I can get started on a bonus story for print.
–Howard
That’s… not very spoilery. But thankyou for the warning anyway.
Some people have expressed a bit of amazement when I’ve told them that the end of the current storyline is only a few pages away. I guess it’s not really a “spoiler” when only a few pages sit between you and the back cover of a novel, but for me it does alert me to changes in pacing, and plot twists that are clearly going to be wrapped up rather than pushed off to the next book.
–Howard
Honestly, I figured we were almost there. For one thing the last time you marked a book-part was January (Is that a slipup? If so, where does Part V begin?) and you had four already…there isn’t much more a single Book can take.
Ah, that makes sense. Well, I look forward to reading it. The ending is always the best part of a book.
I agree, it’s not very spoilery…especially since Sunday’s strip pretty much tells us where the story’s going, if not how it’s going to get there.
Speaking of spoilers…I guess that art I got from you at Penguicon isn’t a spoiler any more.
Which was that? I forget!
A smiling Tagon and Pranger, back to back.\
That would be an awesome piece to have!
It is. 🙂
I can just see the captions:
“Have BLAM, Will Travel”
“Hire Us…Or Your Enemies Will”
“Military Experience, Snappy One-Liners, and Dangerous Merc Companies. What More Can You Ask For?”
T-shirts! I’m thinking t-shirts!
Any of the above captions will work.
I know how to do it. On front, under the picture, it reads “Have BLAM, Will Travel”
On the back, it says “Tagon’s Toughs and Pranger’s Bangers: Hire Us, Or Your Enemies Will”
Below that is the Schlock Mercenary URL.
I don’t think I can wait for that shirt to come out. I may have to make it myself.
You’ll need‘s picture first.
Well, Sunday’s strip tells us where it’s going, yes, but declaring war on another galaxy could be a long and drawn out process (though hopefully not another 100,000 years), this tells us that the issue will be resolved soon, which is the part we didn’t previously know.
Plus, we also now know there will be a bonus story in this elusive book he keeps teasing us with. =)
Do we know anything will be resolved soon? I’m not even sure we know that the F’Sherl-Ganni will agree to shut down their core gizmo, or that it will be destroyed soon. Book V may well start off with the battle to destroy the bomb, especialyl if they can’t convince the F’Sherl-Ganni to shut it down themselves. That may be especially hard if they take offense to the project director getting mind-ripped.
Especially long and drawn out if they send their declaration of war at, say, light-speed.
(I’ll save any other non-geeks the googling: 2.2 million light-years.)
Phil Khan of Biscut Press (www.biscutpress.com) wants to read Schlock, but wants to read the dead tree version. Any idea when you’ll commit the first three books to print?
Argh. To read spoilers or not… Must. Be. Strong.
Impatiently waiting for the print version, over here. With a bonus story! Woot!
I seem to recall that the teraport wars were described somewhere in the archives as being bad, but nothing compared to what was going to follow. This reminds me of that.
Not sure where they were, though. I may have to trawl through the archives to find the relevant strip.