TEW Issue 2 Now Available on IndyPlanet

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Remember, you can also get the first issue of TEW here!

If you've been wondering what I've been up to, I've been a bit busy because life got in the way, and haven't worked on much since my Channel trailer. I do want to offer more regular content, though, so you may be seeing a little something on my YouTube channel in the near future, perhaps near the end of the week.

-- LockedOn.

TWO NEW COMICS! And an Update!

Read the new comics by clicking the image, or just going to the "Comics" page on the blog!

Yes, it's been a really long time since I announced the second issue of The Evolving World: The Comic and the Nihility spin-off, but the wait is now over!

First of all I should explain something that hasn't been mentioned on this blog yet. I held a design contest to create a character for the Nihility spin-off comic and the winner of the contest mistakenly submitted a character that wasn't original. That character was Jinx from the game League of Legends. Unfortunately, the error was spotted AFTER I'd already penciled, inked, colored and shaded the page. Since the character with Jinx's likeness in the comic acts nothing like the character in the game, I figured I'd just let it slide, so in she stays. It's kind of a fun reference, anyway.

Oh, and I almost forgot the new update...

Click this image to see the new update!

This new update has a lot of announcements, which I won't spoil here, save for one, because I thought the larger version of the images deserved to be seen.

The NEW LockedOn Compendium

Yes, on April 3rd I will be releasing a complete new made from scratch with Scratch compendium, completely and totally vectorized. I've never been completely happy with the old compendium, because it isn't organized very well and there isn't enough to do. It also didn't completely merge my Archive Projects into one – the Games Timeline was sorely lacking. So I've added it back! Now it's all arranged by franchise, and you can read summaries for the specific, individual projects! I spent half an hour looking up the specific release dates for every single project to be as accurate as possible.

With the previous update full of somewhat depressing news, it's nice to have an update that's nothing but good news! Well, sort of. But you'll have to read it to see what the bad news is.

-- LockedOn.

The January Intensive, The Future of TEW and More!

Due to how successful my last intensive was, I'm going to be doing one again in January. Even though the actual total creative output wasn't as high as I would've liked, there's no helping that when there's simply so much to do involving my projects. The less time I spend online the more time I spend on my projects, which means that even when I'm not being productive during an Intensive, I'm still being more productive than when I'm not doing an Intensive.

Anyway, here's some good news! The Evolving World Issue 2 is out of my hands at this point. I've done everything I need to for the most part, and so it's up to Shoko to color and shade all the pages. This means I can focus on more important things, like telling the full story of TEW.

I've decided to do that in comic format. TEW is a story that's more about visuals than anything else, and putting it in novel format was a mistake. I'm not the right writer for a TEW novel, and I'm not about to hire someone else to do it for me. So instead I'm sticking with what works: comics.

I'm going to collect a bunch of origins and stick them in a big graphic novel which will be subtitled "Prequels". This book will fill in the missing pieces of the story. You'll find out what Arrdo's deal is, why Oliver and Watch have weapons in their hands, what Catalysts 1, 2 and 3 are, how Sadie and Suave fit into the universe, and why Oliver and Watch drifted apart.

The second graphic novel will be subtitled "Sequels", and will be released after Part 4. Obviously, I can't say anything about that one.

 I'm not going to nail down dates for these books, because it takes a long time to make a comic, but I'm going to try to make each story really good so it may take a while.

While one or two stories from each book may make it online for free as a kind of preview, the full versions will only be available through purchasing. I try to release as much as I can online for free, but these are going to be really substantial volumes, filled with my usual pages and pages of behind the scenes content, posters, codes, previews, articles etc. It'll be like a huge Games Update.

I may also collect TEW Issues 1 and 2 into the Prequels book, but no matter what I do, it's going to be loooooooonnnnnnnng.

After TEW's books and Part 4 are out, and Pageturner 2 and Generation Quest 2.0 are released, I'll only have Jak's pilot to worry about, (and it's probably going to stay in script form for the most part). After that, I have one or two tricks up my sleeve. Stay tuned!

-- LockedOn.