On the Verge – Book 1 – Page 5

So this new posting schedule has turned out to be great when there’s a long weekend! Who knew. It’s much less stressful, that’s for sure!

Today’s page is one of my favourites from this opening sequence. I really liked the initial thumbnail that I came up with but wasn’t entirely sure how it was going to translate when I scaled it up. The pencilled page turned out really well and the final inked piece was even better. But to be honest, the colouring sort of took it to a different level. I wasn’t entirely sure what to do with the colours, but after seeing how the first three pages turned out with a simple colouring effect, I thought it might be worth trying it out on this page as well. Needless to say, I’m super happy with the final result.

After a bit of “soft start” the first four pages that I’ve published, this is really the start of the full on story so there will be lots to read in the coming weeks. I like how this opens things though. Maybe this would have made a good “official” start to the whole book…

Here’s today’s page:

On the Verge - Book 1 - Page 5

Now I’m posting single pages because that gives me enough time to keep to the schedule that I’ve set. I’d love to post these as the spreads that you’d see in the final book format, but that’s just not possible. But, when there’s a set of pages that really works as a spread I think I’ll try to post them just for interest. So here’s pages 4-5 as a full spread:

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Last week I managed to finish off a bunch of new pages and it was really great to get back into the swing of things. It feels great to see progress after a couple months of down time. Now it’s really a matter of staying focused and getting to the end of the chapter which is 12 pages away. To be honest, I think it’s going to be a little weird to finally have this portion of story done since I’ve been working on it for a good 6 months at this point. I’m really looking forward to moving on and getting started on some new stuff, but it’s been awhile since I’ve done that.

Anyway, I’ve got another busy week ahead of me here. Lots going on at work, I’ve gotta get some OTV art done for sure and my brother is getting married this weekend. So that means I should finish off this post and get back at it. See you next week!

How did I end up with the title?

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I was thinking this weekend that I never really explained why I chose the title ON THE VERGE for this graphic novel (which has now become MANY things). The closest I came was from my second blog post (boy that was a long time ago!) where I wrote:

What’s in a name?
I needed to name my story and name the company that Agnosto started. This led me to two names: Edge and Verge. Edge was simple and to the point so the company became Edge. I liked “On the Verge” for the title because it had a nice ring to it. I dug around online and couldn’t find another comic called that, so my comic had a name.

My comic was starting to come together.

The thing is, that sort of briefly explains the overall thinking. I wish it had been that easy settling on a name for the graphic novel. It wasn’t… What I find interesting is that when I started out, I really didn’t think about how ON THE VERGE would expand out to be a larger project because I was focused on creating one graphic novel. But at the same time, I did think that I could tack things on to the title if I ever did advertising or promotion. So I did see how ON THE VERGE could be used for more than just a main title – which is a good thing now that this project has expanded to include multiple stories..

As I alluded to in the above snippet, I really wanted the title to capture something and explained what the universe I am creating was all about. The question at the time was, what kind of title does that? As with most creative things that I do, I started with brainstorming. I had the general idea that I wanted the title to use words like “out there” (think the X-Files) or “fringe” (like Fringe which was big at the time) to bring paranormal/supernatural imagery to a viewer’s mind. So this led to words like edge, verge, border, borderline, limit, outer, margin, perimeter, etc. So after kicking around various combinations, some of the challengers that didn’t quite make the cut were Edge (obviously), The Edge, On Edge, Outside, Paranormal Explorers and UpsideDown. Looking back on my notes and the ones that almost made it, the only one that I feel could have stood the test of time is On Edge.

ON THE VERGE really captured what I was aiming for. It explained the paranormal/supernatural/thriller elements of the story as well as the fact that I was “on the verge” of creating a graphic novel which was kind of a fun play on the theme. One final point that I should make is that before I really settled on a name, I played around with the design of the words and letters. I wanted to make sure that I had something that would look good on the page and online. Maybe that influenced my decision, I’m not sure, but overall ON THE VERGE won out.

Fast forward a couple of years…
So yeah, I’m still using ON THE VERGE as the title and I think it still works. It turns out that there’s a couple of different “On the Verge” webcomics out there (which is something that there wasn’t – or at least I couldn’t find them – back when I started out). I would hope that I have a little bit more invested in terms of content actually posted than any other “on the verge” comic out there as I have been actively posting a lot of content online for 3+ years now. So in some ways, I feel like On the Verge is “my title” and I’m not too worried about any confusion. It’s been fun looking at Google search results as this project has progressed. The term “on the verge” is actually quite common which is something that I didn’t think about when I was generating names. But slowly my stuff has been appearing.

Something else I will point out is that here in Guelph (where I live and work) there is actually a funky store called “On the Verge,” so that gets a little bit confusing when I talk to people around here. I was aware of the store before I settled on the title, but it didn’t influence the naming at all. Thinking on a slightly more global scale, I know no one has ever confused the two outside of this area. Plus one is a store and one’s a comic.

Anyway, naming my comic was probably one of the hardest things that I had to do. It was really difficult to settle on something when I was starting out, versus writing and drawing pages and getting a good chunk of pages done before I settled on something. At the same time, I feel like having a name has really set a tone for the project and it’s something that to this day I’m really happy with.

On the Verge – Book 1 – Page 4

Hey, guess what? This is the prologue (officially). I guess you might have guessed that already from the past couple of posts, but it’s worth pointing it out, right?

Today’s page features some artwork that I had been kicking around for awhile but hadn’t really decided on how to use. I was looking for a way to introduce Jeremy’s writings into the story and the journal idea sort of seemed like a good place to me. I’ve mentioned that my main goal for the prologue is to establish the OTV world a little bit and set up the story… My hope is that seeing it through Jeremy’s writings and thoughts will really set the stage the way I want.

So thoughts about the story… how much to give away here…?

Essentially, the best part about writing different characters is that you get to put yourself in their head and express thoughts about things that (for me at least) you’re not qualified to talk about. I mean really, what the heck do I know about the world today outside of my own observations? And Jeremy is supposed to be a genius of all things (which I’m obviously not). It’s kind of fun to dig around and see what he thinks and feels about the OTV world. I think another aspect of writing different characters is trying to see the world through their eyes and justifying their thoughts and decisions – some I agree with and some I don’t..

Here’s the page:

On the Verge - Book 1 - Page 4

As far as the art goes, I think this page really represents more my “graphic designer” side than anything. I’ll admit that there isn’t a ton of drawing going on with the page… but I really want to try to bring some different elements to the storytelling. Would the page have been as effective (or even more effective) if I had drawn the book? I don’t think so. Anyway, I do stuff like this all the time for various publications I’ve designed over the years, so it sort of seemed natural to me. I’m sure I will probably find more places to use this “style/technique” (actually, I can think of one coming up!) but we’ll see…

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Last week I got back to the lunchtime drawing and got a good start on getting new OTV pages done. I managed to put pencil to paper and finish off three pages. I’m hoping to pick up the pace a little bit this week, but it was nice to see some progress after several weeks of being stalled. It’s funny, when I do get in a period when I’m stuck, I find myself debating the story and where I’m going and if anyone is going to like it… But when I actually sit down and do the work, I really enjoy the characters and the story and just working on it. And I guess I hope that somehow that’s conveyed to everyone through the story and art, as well as this blog. OTV really is a labour of love for me and while at times it’s a lot of work (and the craziest hobby I could have picked!), I really do enjoy working in this project.

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Here’s some work-in-progress pictures that I posted last week.

With that in mind, I need to do some work. Check out Instagram to stay up-to-date on the the work I’m putting in (or Twitter!) and let me know what you think. See you next week.

On the Verge – Book 1 – Page 3

So this is the first week of posting later in the day. We’ll see how it goes…

Today’s page is the last of the pro-prologue section that I’m hoping has set things up pretty well for everything that follows. Starting this whole story has always been a bit of an issue for me and I think it’s somewhat interesting that I’ve kept coming back to Hannah. I think that’s because I like how Hannah thinks and the voice I write her in (if that makes any sense). It’s taken me a lot of time to figure out how to actually START. I mean HOW do you start a story? For me, it really came down to trying to establish a certain pacing for the story and say something cryptic to convince you to keep coming back and turning pages. What could Hannah have seen coming? Read and find out!

There’s a couple of things that I want to point out about this page:

1. I really love the way the top panel worked out. I mean I really liked the initial thumbnail drawing and I liked it when it was penciled out and I liked the ink drawing… So I’m not too sure why it surprises me that I still like it, but it does (pencils/inks).
2. The bottom half of the page uses the clock and gears iconography which is something that I’ve been putting into OTV art since the very beginning. It just seemed to work for this page though…

The art for this section is really a bit of a throwback for me. I used to use this technique of basic ink lines with the colour effect overtop of it several years ago. For some reason I stopped using it though and for the life of me I can’t remember why. Anyway, I really wanted these first three pages to look different – this will make sense much later in the story – but visually I needed something a little different now even if no one has seen what the rest of the pages look like. Anyway,  I’m really happy with how these three pages turned out.

So here’s the new page:

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Update!
Hey, Spring has finally arrived up here in Ontario and that’s meant that OTV is the furthest thing from my mind right now. I’ll admit that this isn’t the best thing to go and tell everyone, but it’s completely true. Still, I do want to do (and need to do) work on OTV, but I’m just wasn’t feeling it last week. So that means that this week I really need to focus (or REfocus as the case may be) and start getting back on track. Maybe I need to set a deadline for myself…

Other than that, it seems like absolutely everything else has been nutty, which to be honest, I’ve been expecting. Things tend to be a little nutty around this time of the year because this is my busy season at work. I feel like I haven’t had the time I normally would at work to take a lunch break and draw like I have throughout much of the last year. It’s funny how that little change of pace in the middle of the day actually gives my brain a break, so I definitely need to get back in the habit of doing it. Hopefully this week I can!

And with that, we’re done. See you next week for the next installment…

On the Verge – Book 1 – Page 2

Can you have a prologue of a prologue? What does that even mean? Well that’s sort of what this is.

Ok, the backstory to this opening set of pages is that after quite a bit of dithering, I finally settled on the fact that Hannah is really the main character for this whole story – and by that I mean that Hannah is the character that holds this while this thing together. So yeah, this is a quick intro to Hannah who we’ll definitely be coming back to after we get rolling and set up the OTV world.OnTheVerge-Book1-Page2

Have I mentioned that the release of these new pages has me really nervous for some reason? I decided this week that this is probably why it’s taken me so long to actually get back to solely focusing on this story. Since it’s the story that I originally set out to do, I feel some responsibility to make it everything that I want it to be. I’ve worked hard to try to get everything I can into these pages and I really hope that people like it and enjoy it. I’ve said in the past couple of weeks that this is “the beginning” and it really does feel that way despite being well into year three at this point of the project. Plus, it’s really odd to only have a couple of pages up. To be honest, I have to keep reminding myself that I have to pace this out and to stick to the plan (which is really hard). I’ve always found that I just want to post a ton of pages and then run around and tell people to come and read. But then I’d have nothing else to post for next week (or the week after)… And by the end of the year I’ll have a good chunk of pages up. You just have to trust me and stick with it and I hope you’ll be happy with what’s in store!

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News and notes…

  • I wanted to drop a quick notice that starting next week, posts will be going up sometime in the afternoon. I’ve been toying with the idea for a while and I think it’s worth testing it out. I’m curious if I’ll get more traffic or not. I’ve always posted at 8 AM EST so I think it’s a good idea to see what happens if I change that. I’ll let you know…
  • THE INTERVIEW will be returning shortly. I’ve got a couple of small projects on the go right now that I’m hoping to have wrapped up by next week and then we’ll get back to that smart talking rabbit.
  • Speaking of side projects, I’m working on a set of illustrations that you may have seen glimpses of on Twitter or Instagram. I’ll definitely post some links for stuff when I’ve got some finished work to share.

And that’s it for today. Enjoy the page and I’ll see you next week.

On the Verge – Book 1 – Page 1

I have had this ongoing debate with myself about how I wanted to start this story since pretty much the very beginning of this project. I always knew that I wanted to start with a prologue, but just exactly what that was has changed dramatically. In the end, I think I’ve probably gone back to telling the type of story that I originally set out to tell.

Initially I wasn’t sure about posting the prologue section of the story here on the website. When I started posting the original chapter I kind of figured that any prologue section would be something that I included with the final printed story and that would add something extra to things and give people a reason to actually buy a printed copy. But after a couple of years working through things, and making the decision to basically start from scratch again, I realized that it might be a good idea to really start the story off where I wanted to. And to be honest, the main thing that I realized that I needed to do with the first block of the story was to really set the stage and help explain the OTV world to the reader. The initial chapter and interlude that were published just dropped the reader into the story and the action and I realized that the story would be stronger if I could set some stuff up.

And that brings us to page 1. Interestingly, the thing that I recently added in to this page is the opening quote. I would definitely say that I accumulate stuff over time and the interesting thing is that I don’t always remember finding stuff, liking it and saving it for later use. I remembered that I wanted some kind of quote to start off the story a couple of weeks ago when I was giving everything one final proof. So I started digging through my notebooks to see if I’d made a note of this anywhere and  I actually found a ton of notes and quotes to choose from (I love it when I have consistent ideas!). Anyway, here’s the page…

On the Verge - Book 1 - Page 1

I guess you may be wondering exactly what this all is and why it’s basically just inkwork with some colour. And the answer for that is I can’t tell you right this second. You’ll just have to wait and see. One other small point that I wanted to make is that the art on this page is based off of one of the very first drawings of Hannah that I ever did (way back at the beginning of this project). There’s something about this that forms a nice complete circle in my mind – starting the story where I originally started.

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Updates galore
Last week was spent updating website content and adding in new images. If you haven’t taken a look around, please do! There’s lots of new stuff to dig through and see. It’s not 100% done yet, but it’s getting close. From the few people that have commented, I’ve heard good things so hopefully people are happy with how it’s all come together.

In other OTV news, I’m really itching to get back to doing some artwork. It’s been a couple of weeks since I really sat down and worked on pages. Interestingly, once I start focusing on other stuff and not the art/story that needs to be finished off, I start coming up with all sorts of new ideas. I’ve had a couple of good ones and now just need to figure out how I can slot them into the schedule that I’ve put together for the next couple of months. It’s cool to come up with new stuff, but it’s a pain the butt trying to figure out how you can actually get it all done!

And finally, I don’t know about anyone else, but it’s finally starting to warm up and be Spring-like up here in Canada. Golf season is looking more like a possibility instead of a distant dream. I guess that means I really need to buckle down and do some art fast before the nice weather distracts me! With that, it’s back to work. See ya next week…

Why I killed ComicPress on my site

Or: How to build a webcomic with using ComicPress

Note: Just to be upfront here, I used ComicPress for three years as the backbone of my On the Verge website. But the more I thought about it, I didn’t really need to rely on it…

Ah, ComicPress…
For anyone who’s followed my posts about designing websites and using WordPress and ComicPress, it will be no surprise that I think the issue with ComicPress is that it’s confusing to do any major edits to. If we take a look at the On the Verge site as it existed for the past couple of years, it took me 20 minutes to code the basic structure (the navigation bar, the header, main content area, sidebar and footer) in Dreamweaver, about an hour to work up the graphics for the site and then 3.5 days to figure out how to apply this to a ComicPress layout. Why? Because there are so many parts to the software that making edits to customize your site is a royal pain in the butt.

It does have some pros
ComicPress does have a lot going for it. If you’re a beginner just starting out or someone who just wants to put together a webcomic site quickly, it’s a great solution. It has a lot of options built into it and you can customize it as long as you keep within the design of the theme you’ve selected to use. The widgets and navigation built into the software are enough to give the basic user a functioning and user friendly website. If this describes you or you just want to keep using ComicPress and want to know more about how to use it and how to customize it, I’d suggest you check out my series of tutorials (that at some point I WILL FINISH! I promise!). You can make edits, it just takes a delicate touch.

But there is another way
So the first problem is that ComicPress isn’t being developed anymore (and hasn’t been for a while now). And once I heard about this, I started looking at other options… I finally made the decision to dump ComicPress altogether when I started to work on the major update that just went live in the past week. I’ll admit, I was planning on sticking it out with ComicPress since any other “plugin” option was pretty much the same thing. But once I sat down and started coding I realized that it just wasn’t worth it.

So this post has been sitting in a draft format since I last updated my website in November 2011. That’s a while ago. So it occurred to me back then that ComicPress wasn’t necessary and as I was working up options for redesigning the site I was toyed with the idea of dumping ComicPress altogether. To me, it’s an interesting idea, especially for someone who’s posted quite a few tutorials and generally advocated ComicPress as a good solution for webcomics, but I thought I’d share my thoughts. If you want to take this idea and run with it, feel free and I’d love to see your results. You can take a look around my site and see what I’ve done with it.

So again, my main issue with ComicPress is that it’s been built to provide a generic solution for anyone and I want a specific solution for my website. Plus, depending on what plugins you start using on your website, ComicPress may not always play nice. For me, the only two reasons to use ComicPress is for the ability to upload pages and have them be displayed on the website with navigation to go from one page to the next and the built in archiving system that lets you archive/organize all these pages. If we could find a way to do basically the same thing, then you could make the switch.

Why switch? There are so many more WordPress themes to choose from and often they are much easier to edit and customize. This gives you options that you wouldn’t have if you choose the ComicPress route. I’m not a fan of solutions that cover all possibilities, I want something specific to me.

The solution
I spent a couple of months working this problem over in my head and I think the best way to accomplish the same result you get with ComicPress is to create galleries for each story or storyline. In fact, this feature is built into the WordPress themes Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven, so it’s easy. Plus you can alter the way these galleries function with Jetpack or any number of plugins.

The key thing to keep in mind is that for this solution to work, we need to set up an archive page that serves as a simple “bookshelf”-type page for each book, story or chapter.

If you take a look at how I’ve set up my Archive page and what I’m going to do when I post new pages, this solution is very simple and easily adaptable. Each book, story or chapter would be set up as its own gallery page and all the pages would be loaded into that gallery so that a user can start a whatever page they’ve left off on. To navigate the book, the user would start with the first page and through simple “previous” and “next” buttons, go from page to page much like they would in ComicPress. The Archive page displays links to each story and those would point to the relevant gallery for that story. This solution also lets me customize each Archive page so that I can include information about the story, alternate covers and artwork, work-in-progress shots and whatever else I think may be interesting to the reader.

For new pages, I’ve made the decision to just post the page in the blog post (which I have always done anyway) so that people can easily read the page without a lot of clicking links and then I need to manually update the gallery (which I’ll admit is a bit of pain in the butt, but really, it’s not hard or time consuming).

In the end, this is almost identical to the ComicPress process, but it eliminates the excessive posts and streamlines the archiving process into simple built-in thumbnails and links.

Final thoughts
This solution isn’t for everybody. ComicPress definitely has its uses, but it isn’t the only way to do it. The solution above is the one that applies to how my website is setup right now and wasn’t that hard to implement. I really wanted a custom solution for my website and this was the best way I could think to accomplish that. There are probably a lot of other options out there to explore and that’s probably the best thing to take away: explore your options before you commit to a particular piece of software.

A closer look: the website update

As I mentioned yesterday, pretty much since the last version of this site went live, it was out-of-date. Now I know that this is the nature of websites in general, but I just found that no matter how much I tried to keep up and update content it was just never enough. I finally made the decision to just let it exist as it was and focus on doing artwork and posting pages.*

But…
I knew at some point that I needed to update the website and I also knew that I needed to find a good time to do it. The past 12-14 months has been a constant stream of stories and I never felt like it was a good time to overhaul things despite however much I felt like I need to. So the (re)start of the “main” OTV storyline that happened yesterday was the opportunity that I’ve been waiting for.

If you’ve poked around a little bit in the past day or so, you may notice a couple of changes:

  1. I’ve stopped using ComicPress which I’ll explain in a post tomorrow where I focus solely on this. For now, I just wanted to point it out to everyone. My hope is that not using ComicPress doesn’t create too many issues for anyone going back through the blog and reading posts. From what I can tell, any ComicPress post for a page will just appear in the blogroll as a link but there’s no page. And while I’m not 100% a fan of that, for now I’m not going back and deleting the 100+ posts that I made for the weekly pages through ComicPress.
  2. I really tried to focus on simplifying everything down. While there are quite a few archive pages because of all the various stories that have been posted, for the main website pages I’ve cut things down to a main landing page, an about page, a characters page, a contact page and a gallery. I haven’t deleted any other pages that were up because there may be links to them and stuff, but I’ve focused the content down into these main pages.
  3. If you came in through the main landing page, you will have noticed the new image/rotator combination. The plan is to update the imagery every so often to give the site a bit of a facelift. Otherwise, all the content that I want to try to get people to read is below in simple graphics.

Lots of edits
Overall, I’ve updated virtually all of the content which has been needed for a while now. So what’s new? Well…

  • The “design” and overall art direction is the obvious visual change. I’ve given the whole site a facelift to try to tie it into some of the OTV design/art direction stuff that I’ve been doing lately.
  • I’m in the process of trying to add in new images and design elements to highlight certain things and add some interest to the pages. So not all of these new images are done and in place yet, but I’m working on it.
  • I’ve updated the characters page with new artwork and I’ve included some of the newer characters.
  • The gallery has been updated with images for anyone looking for art stuff.
  • And I’m super excited about the archive and how that’s worked out. I’ve got plans for adding in content on those pages and have so far only really updated them to include the various covers that have been posted as well as a plot synopsis and gallery of the pages.

I’m really happy with the update. I’m sure I’ll change some stuff as I go but for now I think it’s pretty solid. Let me know what you think!

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* I have had some people inquire about the ComicPress tutorial series and a couple of other posts… And the main reason why I haven’t posted any further updates with any of these series is the same reason as above – I decided to make On the Verge my priority right now and that means focusing my attention on writing and drawing. There’s only so much time in the day and I just haven’t had time to do more. I feel really bad about it because I know that the tutorials are super popular, so sorry. At some point I will post the rest of the tutorials and stuff. If you do have specific questions, feel free to send me a quick email and I’ll try to help where I can.

The beginning (again)

Welcome to the next chapter of On the Verge (I’m going to start using the acronym OTV on here since I tend to use it in all my notes). This has been a really long time coming and to be honest I’m super excited to finally get going on things. For anyone who is new and just checking this out for the first time, I’ve been heading in this direction since the end of last year and have dropped hints or talked about my plan for things over the past couple of months. For anyone who has been following along, thanks for hanging in there and I swear this will be worth it!

So basically for the past several months I’ve been trying to wrap up THE JUMPER storyline as well as get various social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Tumblr) all squared away and consistent so that with today’s launch they would all be working together. As well, if you’re a regular reader you may notice that the site has been heavily overhauled. I’ll post some more thoughts about the website in the next couple of days, but for now I just want to point out that pretty much everything has been updated and edited. The main problem with the website is that I’ve pretty much left it alone since the last update which was in November 2011 and pretty much as soon as that update went live, it was out-of-date. That’s the way websites go, but it had reached a point where it really needed to be overhauled and this was the perfect opportunity to do it. My guiding principle has been to try to simplify everything down and hopefully that helps!

On the Verge – back to the beginning
If you haven’t already heard, starting with today’s post, we’re going back to what I keep calling the “main” OTV story that I intended to write and draw when I started this project three years ago. I’ve spent pretty much the past two years working on smaller stories and really trying to get a handle on just what I wanted to do and how to do it.

The first work that I published back in February of 2011 was originally developed as “Chapter Zero” but I really liked the direction and decided to change that to Chapter 1. But after working on the story for a couple of years I realized that I needed to actually start earlier and that meant deciding on what to do. I could just post away and things would be out of order and hope that people would follow along. Or I could figure out how I wanted the story to start and go back and start at the beginning. After a couple of months of soul searching, I made the hard decision to start over.

And that brings us to today.

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At some point this will have a proper title other than just ON THE VERGE, but for now, that’s what I’m going with. The other thing that I thought was worth pointing out is that I don’t really consider this to be the “final” cover. In fact, I think it’s somewhat difficult to sit down and conceptualize a cover without the majority of the story actually written, let alone illustrated. I mean I know the plot and what’s going to happen, but it’s not fully scripted as of yet.

That being said, one of my co-workers who’s a really amazing designer and is a really great conceptual thinker walked by my computer at lunch as I was putting the finishing touches on this cover and absolutely nailed what’s going to happen in the story – this without any idea of what I’m actually writing, which I haven’t shared with anyone. So maybe it’s all in the image if you just look hard enough… I mean it does illustrate an important part of the the story but I really didn’t think it was that obvious.

And that’s about it for today. Please take a minute or two to look around and check out all the new content. It’s not 100% done yet since I still have a bunch of images to stick into a couple of the pages. But it’s close. If you see anything weird or have any other kind of feedback, feel free to let me know and I’ll definitely look into it. Also, be sure to check back in for the post about what the heck happened to the website… ‘Til next week when the story really gets started!

under destruction

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that the On the Verge website would start to be updated over the course of the week. Anyway, for anyone stopping by for the first time, I just wanted to throw up a quick post and mention that the site it getting overhauled and should be finished early next week – just in time for the launch of the next On the Verge storyline.

Anyway, sorry if things are a bit of a mess, but they will be straightened out as fast as I can do it. If you’re having any problems, feel free to let me know in the comments attached to this post or send me a quick email.

Thanks for your patience!