Unity: The Next Generation (2010/02/01)

[[Eugene holds up a Kayohash pup, lavender with light-blue hair. Hira holds her tail, and Juni and Tanya reach out to touch her.]]
Hira: Say hello to Thena Melrose.
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Unity: The beginning (2010/02/03)

[[External shot of Unity]]
Zero: Hello, universe. This is Icarus ship 184-31A, resuming broadcast after some minor technical difficulties. Internal relative time is 21,946,623.685 Earth years post-launch.
Zero: The stellar fragment is shining, the weather is absolutely PERFECT, and life is continuing in its beautiful endless dance.
Zero: My name is Zero. It will be a pleasure to meet you.
[end]
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Journal: January 31, 2010: Terminus (2010/02/08)

If you want to follow Zero on Twitter, here you go.
[[fluffy sits at the computer]]
fluffy [thinking]: Ah, finally, the last Unity is DONE.
fluffy [thinking]: Holy CRAP that was a lot of work.
[[fluffy stands and stretches]]
fluffy [thinking]: Yeah, from now on I'm gonna keep my stories brief.
[[Juni tugs on fluffy's shirt]]
fluffy: Huh?
[[fluffy looks out to see several Unity characters looking forlornly at it]]
[[fluffy kneels down for Juni]]
fluffy: Yes, Juni?
Juni [written Hiero]: fluffy, do you hate us?
fluffy: No, of course not! I love you all.
Zero [non-spoken thought]: Then why you do terminate our reality?
fluffy: I didn't, I put it in a spot where I can do many more things with it.
fluffy: I have many plans, ESPECIALLY for you, Zero. And not just Twitter.
Zero: Good. Twitter is mostly boring.
Sam [Hiero]: Later on, I was such a jerk... I don't like being thought of that way.
fluffy: Aw, you weren't a jerk. You were pretty frustrated by a ridiculously bad situation.
fluffy: I figure you eventually make up with Juni and Tanya, and your nephews babysit Thena and you're all good friends.
Sam [Hiero]: Oh, that's good.
fluffy: Well, yeah, I mean, there's a lot Juni didn't pay attention to, so we never really got your point of view.
Juni [Hiero]: So I was the jerk.
fluffy: Yeah, pretty much. Sorry.
Juni [Hiero]: ... breezing kessel ...
fluffy: Mind your language. Entropy-mouth.
Tanya [Hiero]: So, am I a neutrois now?
fluffy: I don't actually know! Can't you just leave it to your imagination?
Tanya [Hiero]: I'm in YOUR imagination, hon.
fluffy: Good point. Clearly i should be sleeping instead of talking to myself. Good night, imaginary future space critters.
[[fluffy trudges off]]
[[The Duchess and the Womble arrive]]
Duchess: Hey, are we late for the Q&A with that "artist?"
[[The cast of Unity peers at the Duchess]]
Duchess: Well I'm not the one who violated causality this time.
Duchess: Oh wait, yes I am.
[[The Duchess looks over at the Womble, who is carrying four Melrose pups in its pouch. The Womble facepalms.]]
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Journal: December 22, 2009: Trim (2010/02/12)

[[Saturday]]
[[fluffy sits in a barber chair, as Blanca the hair stylist starts to trim its rather long hair]]
[[Tuesday]]
[[fluffy is at work, pretending to be busy]]
Wendy: Oh, you cut your hair!
fluffy: Yeah, I was pretty overdue for a trim.
Wendy: It's cute.
fluffy: Thanks!
Wendy: Oh, sorry, you probably aren't going for "cute," right?
fluffy: No, I am! I'm all about the cute.
Wendy: Oh? I didn't know.
Wendy: Looks nice.
fluffy: Thanks.
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2010/02/03: So there it is

That's it for Unity. Right now I have a bit of a backlog of journal comics I want to draw, and I'd also like to take a bit of a break from drawing comics so I can focus more on my music (it is time for FAWM!), but I'm pretty sure to have a lot of other comic stuff coming down the pike, including more stories about Icarus 184-31A. I hope you'll stick around to see it!

Working on Unity was a great pleasure. I learned a lot about my artistic process, character construction, plotting, and dialog, and I think I've grown a lot as an artist over the last few years (and not just in the way Wii Fit keeps admonishing me for). I'm surprised it worked out as well as it did, and how different it turned out from where I started and where I expected it to go. My characters kept me guessing right up until the end.

Eventually I'll decide how I want to go about dealing with value-added versions; I see no point to selling a .cbz of "as it appeared on the site" (since people can always just use the series browser if they want to read it straight through), but I'll definitely want to do a full-resolution .cbz (which would be a lot of work to put together) as well as an ultra-special archive of all my source files, various notes, etc. Both of those are going to be pretty big, though, and will fill the better part of a CD and a DVD, respectively, so I'm not sure if a digital storefront is the way to go just yet. We'll see.