Snow Snow Snow Snow:  So we've been getting snow. And Ice. A LOT. Another foot coming in today. This has been causing so many snow days and early dismissals and delayed openings that I expect my kids to still be making up school days on the fourth of July! Its been really hard to work my normal schedule. And I've had some rough times from it over the last couple of months. But lately I've been on top of things pretty well. I guess I'm mentioning this because It's too good to be true and I suspect sooner or later I'm going to have to pull snow-day filler or 'no-elbow-room-to-script' filler, or suffer another prolonged power outage (once we get another load of ice on the wires).

I've managed to get comics in the queue through Monday so we should be safe until Tuesday's update. I'll keep you posted.

Whats up with the Hand Surgery? Well, it's a weird thing. I've just gotten used to my thumb-issues. There are certain tasks I can't manage the way I used to, but I just use the TV remote with the other had (for example). I'm still able to work a brush and marker and I don't even think about it anymore. So at this point unless something gets worse I'm going to postpone the hand-surgery indefinitely.

What does the future hold? Were almost up to a year since the start of Mohkadun and I don't expect it to run too much over that anniversary. I could have easily broken it down into multiple chapters but I feel like the entire run is a whole piece and significant foundation-work for the rest of the story. I also have a Mystery Side Project that I hope to reveal soon and theres the next set of books which I'll get to as soon as the snow stops piling on. And now you know!

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This page has all the details but I also wanted to mention “The Sampire” Defenders-Only Comic Book! 37 Pages of Sampire!

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