The good, the bad, and the ugly

Today's AKOTAS left me with a good feeling when I was done with it. As if something that had been missing has returned; as if AKOTAS again had a dynamic it had been created with but had lost and needed back. I suspect this is about how I felt when I brought Nimue into the contemporary time zone years earlier than I had originally planned to debut her at all (see the essay on this page). There is, after all, a reason I gave six of the characters the color wheel to wear while the remaining characters are all constrained to variations of those colors depending on their relation to the first six (or, in the case of some bit parts and extras, random colors). I need to work Morgan back in more often. That'd be a good thing.

A less good thing is that I suspect I should have written this on the AKOTAS website instead of here. It's just that it's so much more work to add an essay to the AKOTAS site: once completed it must be copied into the index page, the day's permanent page, and the collected essay page. And, once that's done, if any further thoughts come to me before updating, those must be copied over into all three files; and I'm as inclined to let such thoughts go as to go to the bother. I fear I'm slighting the website (though usually I don't write anything at all instead of writing it here). But it's also true that one day about two months ago I surfed the Lulu.com website and became much more optimistic that there'll one day be AKOTAS books. On that day there'll need to be bonus commentaries for the extra added value that is the convention for webcomic print collections. So in theory everything I'm not writing now will appear eventually anyway.

On an unrelated note, I sent Shaenon Garrity fan art. She wrote back for permission to post it one Sunday. Guess what I replied.