Xanny's Curse

Lately, my Apple Mail’s been ringing with comments from xannycurse.com and before I continue with this update, I have to say is that I’ve read everyone’s comments and truly appreciate them and have tried my best to take something away from each and every comment that’s been posted on the site.

So today I won’t promise another page but provide you with some update as to what’s been going on and perhaps some trivia regarding Xandy.

As all of you might have surmised, I’ve been working my butt off for the past few months trying to get both the site and the comics back up to snuff. It won’t be easy - there’s a grip load of Xanny’s Curse material that I want to post online that it’s going to literally take me months to make them or even get around to doing them. I’ve already gone through 3 hard drive crashes on the PC and I’m trying my best to remember or even retrieve what was lost. Come May, xannyscurse.com will be renewed so that people can read Xandy’s currently-in-hiatus adventures. And just to note, Xandy being stuck in the men’s restroom is a joke of sorts and you’d have to wonder what’s going to happen next. All I can say is I’ve already figured it out, but the problem isn’t drawing it… it’s putting it online.

Before November, I literally HAD a scanner - that’s why Xanny’s Curse continued for a little bit then died again. I used my parents’ scanner up until November and now the story continues in my head, unfortunately as it seems. Between planning for a Japan trip this June and today, all I can tell you is that I’m trying to avoid spending money to get a new scanner since my significant other will be moving in with me and we’ll have a scanner by then.

And yea, I realize that this is a really poor excuse to delay Xanny’s Curse for maybe another five or six months, but if the renewal of the domain is any indication, I’m still holding onto this hoping I can come back to it. My employers have been great, and I have had time to pen a lot of the things I want Xandy to experience. And I can say that the support has been great from you all.

But to touch upon the whole “why do you need us” questions, well, it’s pretty simple. Xanny’s Curse was my idea, and yea I shouldn’t let anyone influence my work - but I think that something I felt was missing in the whole web comic thing was the whole idea that webcomic artists remain distant from the people who read their comics. By creating a dialogue using comics as a tool I think it can influence everyone to try their hand at anything - something that movies and books do. And of course, in our increasingly social atmosphere what with Myspace and Facebook, we can achieve something by building a community as opposed to just showing up on a site every week just to check up on updates on the comic. If this somehow still sounds vague, I apologize as I am typing this while at work.

In any case, I’ll leave you with some trivia that maybe some of you already know - actually I just figured this out while I was reading the comments and seeing my name and browsing through scripts at userscripts.org.

Xandy is “X and Y” put together. If you haven’t taken any kind of biology class before, XY’s definition can be found here.

As with most things, I hope that the next update will be sooner than later, so keep on truckin’ and I’ll catch you all laters.

Edit: I just checked the very last page I posted, and that was done using my Wacom tablet. If I can find my Wacom tablet AND get really PO’d from Lost Odyssey’s loading time tonight, well, you just might get a new page. No promises!

Edit 2: The good news, Lost Odyssey is amazing and so not what the reviews say it is, well, except for the traditional Japanese RPG part. The bad news, it’s distracted me from XC yet again.

Edit 3: I’m throwing this out there… my XBL and PSN name is EternityInBlack, and if you wanna see what I’ve been up to just check it out here: http://live.yahoo.com/eternityinblack. Now, I’m also studying XNA… talk about ADD.

Edit 4: Okay, I REALLY REALLY TRIED drawing XC again last night, using my pen tablet - but all my drawing were crappy.  I know exactly how I want to end this whole “Trapped!” storyline sort of thing and I just need to be able to sit down, draw, and make sure it’s decent enough to show.  Also, I’m thinking if there’s any way I can make a game about Xandy that makes sense.  Ideas?