If it weren’t clear (though I’ve mentioned it in the twitter feed), the comic posted on 4/1 was an April Fools joke.  However, it was a somewhat ill-timed one, considering that I’ve been making precisely zero progress on the comic recently, pretty much ever since I got sick.  I’m long since past my cold, but it completely destroyed my sense of momentum, and I’ve yet to recover it.

I will get back to Shadsly, hopefully soon, but as of right now I have no idea when. Maybe I will just pick up and wave my wacom stylus and a few hours later a page will magically appear (yeah, right).

If you read this comic and want to help … well, some nice positive comments won’t hurt.  I’ve no idea how many people, if any, were following this regularly (as opposed to when I reminded/nagged my friends and family to look at new pages).

As mentioned on the Twitter feed, I am working on an updated theme for the site.  Expect things to look ugly for awhile.

Update: I’ve got the site in at least a nominally readable state for now, but I’m bouncing back and forth between several themes at the moment, so that could change when I work on it more.  Note that the archive links don’t actually work when the old theme is active (one reason I’m making a new one).

Update Update: Things seem to now be more or less working as they ought to. If you see anything that isn’t, let me know. (I know the new theme doesn’t look much different … it was less about changing the appearance of the site, and more about upgrading to new Comicpress features like the transcripts and archives. The comic is about 60 pixels wider now, though.)

Just in case you were wondering why I don’t post much here in the weblog section, the reason is because most of my update news is posted to the Shadsly twitter feed (also seen in the sidebar, in case you hadn’t noticed it). Anything beyond that which I might want to say is usually covered in the posts attached to each comic. I imagine I’ll use this section more eventually, but for now those other things are sufficient.