Zoe posted:

It has!

not really, and I'm so, so sorry.

(I know it seems cruel but sometimes that really works when waiting for a comic to update, in the OotS thread I've seen it happen many times. We could also try asking if Kris is okay! )

Zoe posted:

Posting this just so people will think the comic's been updated and then be disappointed.

ColdPie posted:

Kickstarter for book 2 is up

Zoe posted:

Wait I was on my phone before so didn't click the link.

It just goes to the book 2 beginning I guess? drat you Mimir that was a cruel tease.

Kgummy posted:

Well it is pretty similar to the other two book title pages.

Lance Streetman posted:

So the title of book 3 has been revealed. It's, uh, sorta ominous?

Ditocoaf posted:

Oh man. I'd forgotten that the previous chapter ended in the middle of an incredibly tense moment, but going back to reacquaint myself has that all fresh in my memory again. And then we skip forward a few months! That's not concerning at all.

Brought To You By posted:

Wait are we really getting updates now? Finally, I was getting bored waiting for chapter 4 to drop.

Brought To You By posted:

Zoe posted:

So this holiday sounds ominous as all hell but it's easy to forget that with the bake sale joke.

And is it the assumption that all these holidays are just a coping mechanism or a way to keep things under control like the Pattern or do you think they're actually exactly what whatever force is at work in the town wants?

khy posted:

Kris Straub has managed to make a ladies auxiliary interesting to me. Despite the fact that it still has bake sales and poo poo.

I cannot wait until we learn more about the cavern under the lake

Tulul posted:

The most unrealistic thing about this Lovecraftian horror comic is a black woman participating in a posh 1920s New England social club.


I've got a hundred on "doesn't remember that anything happened".

e: I'm imagining Lovecraft frowning out the window of his house then writing some really racist letters about the standards of ladies these days.

Fabricated posted:

The bats were weird because the Bottlefly Boys literally seemed to see them AS normal bats while it was all going on. Zane yells that they're the size of cars, and one of them turns around and laughs and says, "If they were, we'd be in trouble!"

Meanwhile they certainly as gently caress knew that the angleworm wasn't normal.

Zoe posted:

Wow, you can really see that panic setting in around panel 3. That is the face of a man who has seen things. And actually remembered them, for once.

And so it sounds like the lake is just a big empty crater now?

Zoe posted:

Oh, and so I notice the background of the site has changed again. For the new book we've got darkness with streaks of light coming in from the sides.

Like the water themed one we had last time, I assume the meaning will only become obvious once whatever major thing's going to happen actually happens.

Zereth posted:

Nah, it looks like Km Chimichanga retruned it on time too. Dec 18 due, and "C 18" return.

Grilox posted:

Actually it looks like it was due "Dec 16" for two different people. Who both returned it Dec 18.

Which is weird, but there was probably a year between the two, since the stamps this library was using lack years.

Zoe posted:

Maybe worth posting for people like me who never scroll down:

quote:

Broodhollowans,

I’m not the kind of cartoonist who believes an audience should accept late or missing updates because webcomics are free to read. I may not technically owe anybody x number of strips per week. But what I think I do owe you is professionalism — and I always associated consistency with that quality.

I think the demands of the past year are finally catching up with me. I’m blocked creatively. It hasn’t done me a lot of good to try and think my way out of it. I’ve had little bouts of writer’s block in the past, for sure — it happens to everyone, and you work through it until you’re on the other side. But combined with parenthood, other unnamed life events, and getting the final stages of the Book 2 Kickstarter ready to ship (books arriving in August!), this is the longest-lasting block I’ve ever experienced.

I want to do A Game of Oubliette correctly because it’s a really important story for the Broodhollow universe, and I’m nervous that continuing to grind it out like this is going to affect the book’s quality — but! A total hiatus is not the solution.

What I’d like to do is pause Book 3 for a while and explore other stories in and around Broodhollow. It would do me good to get some perspective on the Town of A Thousand Holidays, and as anxious as you are to find out where Zane and company are headed this time, I also think you’d appreciate seeing more of this haunted world.

What do you think?

The Society for the Preservation of American Dignity posted:

Though they may occupy our borders, our streets and our homes... the enemy will never occupy our SPIRIT.

Poison Mushroom posted:

slightly creepy aesthetic