I only got nine rows done today. It was all coloring work, and what I did went pretty quickly. But Tuesdays are only half-days for me, since I spend most of the afternoon and evening at the temple in religious observances. Thus I only got about half a day’s work done.
Tomorrow I need to script, pencil, and ink a week of buffer, and color a page of Bonus Story. It’s going to be a bit of a push.
I scripted, pencilled, and inked the last of the Bonus Story for Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between today. It’s more violent than the last bonus story. four of the eight pages have some sort of weapon discharge depicted, and of the four non-firing pages, only one of them doesn’t have a weapon being drawn or brandished.
There is BLAM. There is Omminous Hummmm. I haven’t colored them yet, but when I do there will be THOOOOM.
By the way, 8 rows of work I thought I’d be doing isn’t on my plate anymore. The Bonus Story topped out at 30 strips, not 32.
The score, then, is 115 rows to go, and 8 days left. I’m more than halfway there – backtracking through the scorecards, I started this with 264 rows on my plate. In 8 workdays I’ve pencilled, inked, scripted, or colored 141 rows (and decided not to do 8).
(I would be much happier if this work-to-do counter included the cover and the huge pile of needed marginalia. I refuse to distract myself just yet, though.)
Apparently the Schlock Mercenary webserver had some issues last night. I missed all the excitement because I was in bed early. It’s probably a good thing — I’ve got work to do today, and needed the 11 hours of rest I got.
The server guys, bless their 24×7 hearts, are looking into the problem, which only manifests itself under extremely heavy loads. Yes, it’s related to the dynamic page content, but it shouldn’t be difficult to track down and kill. For the next couple of days, however, the blog under the comic is going to be absent.
–Howard
I’m taking the day off today. It’s Sunday.
Unfortunately, for me that means THINKING about work instead of doing it, and I just realized that there is an additional 47(ish) rows of work to do on the book before it’s done… That’s how many pages need margin art or new footnotes.
That’s fine. I can do that. But I’m not going to do it TODAY, no matter how tempting it is, and regardless of the fact that next Friday and Saturday have activities on them that turn them from two workdays into one half-day.
I’m taking the day off today.