New to this comic strip?  You can start from the beginning, or you can settle for a summary instead and start with the current semester.  I recommend reading all the archives, but you don't have to if you don't want to.  This comic strip updates five times a week, theoretically Monday through Friday, though in practice that's more like Tuesday through Saturday, since my definition of a "Monday update" tends to be "it goes up around 3 am on Tuesday."  Enjoy!

                              


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NEWS (November 17, 2009):

Three people have e-mailed me since Friday to let me know that Google had classified my website as "suspicious" and blocked access to it.  I was not thrilled, needless to say, and started doing research on how to get this fixed.  I assumed, initially, that it was a simple bug or mistake, but eventually discovered that some scumbag had actually hijacked my site, stuck virus code on half a dozen random pages, and gotten it away with it completely.  Grrrrrrr.  I cleaned the whole site on Saturday, changed the password on Monday, and re-uploaded everything a second time yesterday (just to make sure no jerks had come back before I changed my password successfully).  The site should be unblocked and now completely safe for browsing again; basically, if anything else goes wrong, I'll know I've got a bigger problem than somebody using a bot to randomly break one of my passwords (like Comicgenesis itself being compromised, or something).  Here's hoping that's not the case!

In happier news, To Prevent World Peace (my second webcomic, which launched last month) is still going strong -- I've updated a page each week since launching, and haven't yet been late.  (Laugh.)  Let's hope I'll manage to never be late with it, ever, since that's my aim!  :)  I'd really like to have one hundred pages of completely finished backlog for that manga as a regular thing, so I'm working towards building that now.  I currently have about fifty (no, wait, sixty) pages finished ahead, which is a good thing.  By this time next year, if I don't have twice that, I'll be irritated.  Have I mentioned I'm obsessive?  :P

I'm also working on building my comic strip backlog up again.  It hasn't been great for awhile (less than ten strips ahead finished, generally, and only fifty strips ahead drawn or inked), and I want to build it up to ideal levels -- in fact, ideal levels where it's actually never been.  By this time next year, I'd like to be a hundred strips ahead finished, as well as a hundred pages ahead finished, and I'd like to keep both stories prepared that far ahead consistently.  It's hard to get backlog really far ahead with my comic strip because I update five days a week (which is not a complaint; I like that I update frequently!), and each strip does take about two hours of work to finish.  It also takes ten hours to make each manga page (which is why I can only update once a week with To Prevent World Peace), so that's equally as time-consuming.  However, it takes the same amount of writing to make one of either, and I can't write when ideas aren't flowing, much as I would like to.  So that goal may be a bigger challenge than the vastly-time-consuming one I've set for my manga next year.  Still, I'm going to work hard to try to reach both of them.  :)

Things have been very slow with work the last six months, which has been terrible for my finances (let's just say "strict budget" has developed a new meaning), but it has been very good for extra time I can devote to my manga, and now my comic strip.  I've spend most of my spare time over the last year working on To Prevent World Peace (I needed at least a year's worth of backlog before I felt ready) but now that I've launched, I'll be spending my spare time working on both that and this comic strip equally.  Eventually, I'd even like to be able to start working on extra stuff for this site again.  There are some pages (like the summary) that are extremely out of date, and desperately need fixing.  ^_^'

Next up -- a book you might want to consider reading!

I'm linking to it for three reasons:

1) Free advertising on TopWebComics.  (Let's be honest here.  That was my primary motivation.  I'd love to get more readers.)

2) While the book isn't really my style (it seems to contain some R-rated content, and I'm not a fan of action/thriller in the first place), it looks like it is nevertheless a well-written, well-paced story.  And well-written stories deserve attention.

3) I have immense respect for any author willing to post their entire work online for free.

So, if any of you guys like action/thrillers and don't mind stories that aren't G-rated, dive on in.  :)

Finally, huge thanks to the two readers who came and bought the print editions of To Prevent World Peace at Anime Banzai!  You guys are awesome, and you helped immensely.  So I have to express how much I appreciate it.  :)  Thanks very much to both of you -- and thanks, also, to my other awesome readers for consistently coming back and reading!  ^_^