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no on the list When the Weekly and Monthly back installment will begin?

Thanks for the information Daphne. It’s interesting to note that over 50% of the titles on the list of WIP are new (either one-offs or first of a series) whilst a quick check of the calendar suggests that the historical level is more like 10%. I’m sure that ought to tell me something, but I’m entirely sure what: perhaps that, like Octavia Moon, several of the ‘original’ artists Daphne has been using are partially or completely retiring and there is a bit of a changeover happening? Or maybe Daphne’s muse has had a bit of a reset after her enforced break.
Insert your favourite conspiracy theory  here….

NOT entirely sure, that is ::)

I am assuming that Starter Marriage and Lessirova not appearing in this list does not mean that they are not being worked on or releasing in the near future? I pray for it not being over a year for the next big update to starter marriage  :'(

In our terminology, Starter Marriage and Lessirova aren't "titles", so they don't get counted the same way. It implies nothing about whether or not they are coming out.

Even if they were on the list (and we're only counting the main releases here), we wouldn't give specific dates.

So, by my reading, just because a title is not on the list, does not mean that it won’t be releasing at some point soon? This is just a list of current works in progress, not finished works set to be released?

Yes and no. The list on the Forum is the list of works-in-progress, but going forward we're going to be posting titles to the calendar as soon as they are complete and ready to publish. Any title that gets published, minus some strange situation, will appear on the Forum list at some point.

Seeing Sudo on that list is more than enough for me

(I mean sure, another In-Law unit would also be great, but this is the one I really enjoy*

We thought you might like that. :-)

I’m desperately waiting for the next In-Law Unit issue

Excited for the vibe of Check for Traps (an extension to our roleplaying adventures perhaps) and also for more Trigger Warning whenever it arrives

This list is very appreciated. Hopefully weeks without a published issue continue to drop in frequency, but when I log in and don't see a new issue it's nice to know that at least a new issue has entered the pipeline. Personally, that's more important to me right now than the specific titles on the list.

Thanks for the list! Always cool to know whats in the pipeline!

Out of curiosity what are the average lead times for a comic (not trying to ask when these will be released! Just curious reading the production!)
As i see some comics have a artist only and others have  someone else doing the lettering. No need to be specific just ballpark: writing/story + art + lettering + proof reading? = ?I

The average is… probably not that meaningful, because the range is huge. We have artists that can do a 12-page issue in three weeks, and some that take a year.

The stages in a comic are:

* Me havijng time to write the script.
* Writing the script.
* Pencils/layouts.
* Inks
* Colors
* Lettering

While nearly all of the artists we have do both pencils and layouts, some do coloring and some don't. It generally takes a bit longer if there is a separate colorist, but there are exceptions to that, too: Octavia Moon just bangs them out. :-)

Of these, the one that is usually the longest is the first one. Once I actually sit down and write the script, it's usually less than a day. The part of the art creation that takes the longest is getting to the inks, the colors, and Mr Zipp gets the letttering done in record time.

Our target is 90 days from when the artist (or first artist if there are multiple ones) gets the script until the colors are done. However, the range is huge. Some of it is just how fast they work, some of it is whether they have a full- or part-time job besides art (most do), and some of it is just things coming up in their lives.

Sad to see that "The In-Law Unit" is not on the list.  Happy to see that "Belief System" and "The Ring Cycle" are.

So this is something I've been meaning to ask.

There are clearly books where you know the entire story arc before you started: Alchemist, ConFused, Checkered Past, Enchanted Summer. But there are others -- Bigger, Inheritance, Ring Cycle, An Education, Friend Zone, the impenetrable SJI -- where the plot can be more or less infinitely extended within that world?

Before you start a book/series, do you always have the entire story plotted out, even if it takes years and years to tell the whole story? Is the writing down the detail of dialog and blocking, or do things sometimes get out of control and the charagers take over as the story's getting told?

I think this totally happened with Enchanted Summer, from hypnosis to SPOILERS.