We're now a week into February, and have passed the first Thursday, and no new strip. I'm anxious and frightened and confused.

Please hold me. It's so cold...

-Incarnadine

Jeez, I never said that it would be coming at the beginning of February. Stop yer whining.

This weekend I have to draw a Goats Sunday, Monday's strip, and a guest strip for another comic. Next week I have to get a bit ahead of schedule, since I ate through all my slack time on the honeymoon. Then there's ubercon, which destroys the weekend for me.

I'm also working on other Goats-related projects that have been sitting around waiting for some attention from me.

When I can find 12 straight hours to work on a new PP, I'll do it, but until then, please cut me some slack.

In Response to jon (#3919):

Sorry, I'm cranky today. What I want more than anything is to be able to work on this stuff full-time. I want to do weekly Patent Pendings. I want to bring Goats back to five days a week. I want to work on the Crab City series I've been thinking about. I want to set up my super-secret comics project under a pseudonym. But since I can't seem to figure out a way to make a living at it after almost 6 years, I just don't have the time I'd like to spend on all these projects.

It's difficult fitting everything into the few spare hours I have after I get home from work, and it's not fair to my wife that I don't spend as much time with her as she deserves.

So sometimes things get delayed, and trust me, it bothers me more than it bothers you. But I'll keep at it anyway, for reasons unknown even to myself.

In Response to jon (#3920):

it's not fair to my wife that I don't spend as much time with her as she deserves.

If she's worth being married to (and I think you've already decided she is... :-), it is impossible to actually spend as much time with her as she deserves.

Plus, she probably doesn't want to spend that much time with you. She does still have her own life, after all.

Plus, she must have known you were a web comic artist when she said "I do" (or the Hebrew equivalent if appropriate).

Ask yourself if she would rather that you found ways to spend time with her, or found ways to be happy when you did spend time with her.

But you're still "on the honeymoon" at this point anyway.

Mind you, I'm not unbiased here. <wahh>I want my Patent Pending!</wahh>

In Response to jon (#3920):

Sorry Jon. I should be have been more sensitive to your time constraints, etc. It's just that I have really been enjoying PP, and can't wait to see what's going to happen next. Anyway, keep up the good work (when you can) and I'll get off your back now. Still bestest buddies?

-Incarnadine

In Response to jon (#3920):

What is it? hehehehe

In Response to jon (#3920):

If only you could find a multi-bajillionaire sugar daddy...

...

...does Bill Gates like Goats? Could we send him a spy to show it to him and diabolically get a financier?

...And if so, could I have some? ;)

In Response to jon (#3920):

I thought you got married so you could draw full time and she could support your every need. Guess I was wrong. Oh well.

So, um, not to be a pain in the ass or anything, but when is PP going to get a update?

In Response to jettaboy20 (#5991):

Soon, I hope. I'm about halfway finished with the next one; just trying to find a few free evenings to finish it up.

Potentially, I could do it this weekend, but I'd have to postpone the sunday strip a week. Or stop drinking so much.

In Response to jon (#5995):

Potentially, I could do it this weekend, but I'd have to postpone the sunday strip a week.

You mean it's almost June already? That means I'll have to shower again...

In Response to evilaltor (#5998):

Almost June? June is nearly over!

Jon, did you completely give up on the idea of Patent Pending when you took it off MT, then just place it on premium to boost the preemie-extras list?

In Response to unFalln (#6509):

Nope -- that would have been easier.

The next one is pencilled and inked; I still need to color and letter.

Finding the time to juggle all the stuff we need to do to keep the site up and running is getting more and more difficult, unfortunately. It will appear at some point; I just have no idea when I'm going to find 6 free hours.

In Response to jon (#6518):

I just have no idea when I'm going to find 6 free hours.

ring.....ring ring.....

- (cough) Hello boss, I don't think I can make it in today...

- Again?! You haul your ass in here now, or don't bother coming in tomorrow!!

- Wohoo! Three day weekend!!

In Response to evilaltor (#6544):

If you'll put up the cash to cover my pay for the day, I'll take off to do it. As a tempslave, I don't get holiday or sick pay, unfortunately. Or health insurance. Or bonuses, or pay raises. Or 401(k).

Why am I still here?

In Response to jon (#6548):

I could give you a day's pay of mine. Which is nothing. Perhaps it's not such a tempting offer. I could offer you your own Carribean island of your choosing. But then I'd be lying and there'd be the acrimony and the hired goons around to collect. Actually, I don't have 6 months to convalesce from two broken legs. So the offer of the island doesn't stand. Much like me, if I had two shattered kneecaps.

In Response to jon (#6518):

I just have no idea when I'm going to find 6 free hours.


try AOL. they are always offering free hours.