No New Chapter - Project Update & New Short Story

Hey friends,

First a project update, then an offering!

I'm really, truly sorry I haven't been able to update the comic in a while.  I ran into some GIF issues with the final image of the last chapter, and between that and other technical nonsense (as well as re-starting the day job) I just haven't had the willpower to sit down and film out more comics, not even small ones.  I'm sure I will, but among other things I'm considering where to post new comics.  I've discovered that this Blogger page is not cooperating with Adsense, for example - so the idea of a "trickle revenue" for all of these comics is nil.  Between that and the GIF issues, I'm fairly decided on posting future comics to my personal website.  I have no idea how I'd migrate the old ones over, but...It's not like I didn't already do that once with this project, long ago.

Now for an offering; I'm putting out my first short story in a long time over on Amazon.com.  It's a fantasy romp set in the Kingdom of Emor (from my Pillars Of The Kingdom franchise), and it's hopefully gonna be about an hour-or-two of reading a fantastic little journey that's relatively straight-forward, but enjoyable due to its relative simplicity.

I hope you'll check it out, and I'm sorry I don't have more for you, here.  It's just been tough times all around, y'know?

Chapter 46 - The Tides Turn

Previously:  Chapter 45:  Samuel's Struggle | Next: Chapter 47:  The Dread-Bones And The Goblin Prince

Start Over:  Episode #1, Habbo and Goldhook.

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Greetings, friends, and happy Fantasy May!

I hope you've enjoyed Chapter 46 of Chronicles Of Alleron!  I really enjoyed making this chapter; I know I defaulted back to indoor basement shoots, but they're really the best I can do given that I can just leave (a rather sizable mess) the shooting-area clean, then pick up and shoot the next round of scenes whenever it's time.

Anyway, I'm really hoping that the next-to-last panel is animated the way it's supposed to be.  If it isn't, I'll honestly be so disappointed I might just switch this entire project off of Blogger entirely, since the whole plan was to anchor the episode around the animation of the fire breaking around Samuel's new shield.

With that said, I think the story beats to follow here are:

 - The Goblins started this war by kidnapping Prince Darius and accusing him of being a Balancer, but...

 - Samuel just began to manifest something truly abnormal.
 - Habbo and Goldhook, our protagonists, are active, engaged observers of something history-worthy happening.

For the final word, if you haven't already, please consider supporting me and this comic on Patreon!    Thank you!

Previously:  Chapter 45:  Samuel's Struggle | Next: Chapter 47:  The Dread-Bones And The Goblin Prince

Start Over:  Episode #1, Habbo and Goldhook.

Please Support The Comic On Patreon! | The Author, Jesse Pohlman's Website!

Chapter 45 - Samuel's Struggle

Previously:  Chapter 44:  The Skirmish, The Melee | Next: Chapter 46 - The Tides Turn

Start Over:  Episode #1, Habbo and Goldhook.

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Thank you for reading!

When going through confusing times, sometimes it helps to have a fun thing come out every once in a while to help spirit along the days.  With the way that plants have grown in my little garden area (where I set up the shoot for Chapter 44), there's little chance of me being able to set up another full-scale outdoor shoot again.

I'm pretty sure there's some Day-Lillies growing where the Goblin Castle goes, for starters.

That means that next chapter is going to involve indoor shoots; so the terrain will look much less awesome, but on the upside I won't be damaging nature, which is kind of important to me.  On the other hand, the ability to leave stuff out (assuming my cats don't mess with them...) means I can set up a scene and shoot it, produce the comic with visual effects (I have a long way to go), then go back and have the Legos still in the same place.  That tells me we can expect significantly improved continuity with chapters, as opposed to this one (can ya believe it's been 45?) where I had to use the excuse that the wounded were Gated out to justify not having a raging battle in the background.

Pretty soon, I'll have information about my next new prosaic release - stay tuned!

Well, that's about it for me.  We're holding up well with CoVID, and I hope you are, too!

Previously:  Chapter 44:  The Skirmish, The Melee | Next Episode (Coming Some Day!)

Start Over:  Episode #1, Habbo and Goldhook.

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Chapter 044 - The Skirmish, The Melee

Previously:  Chapter 43: The Assault Continues - Biran!| Next:  Chapter 45 - Samuel's Struggle

Start Over:  Episode #1, Habbo and Goldhook.

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With love to those struggling with CoVID-19!

If you've read this far, well - THANK YOU!  It means the world to me to see people enjoying what I create, especially during dark times both globally and personally.  Any feedback or thoughts you want to give me are welcome; I'm available on Twitter, for starters, but also on Facebook!  This is by far the largest Chronicles Of Alleron chapter ever; if I could, I'd make them all this long!  I suppose we'll see. :)

I want to once again offer a message of warm reassurance; please, have faith that the CoVID-19 crisis is going to pass.  It will take a terrible toll, of course; we cannot stop that now, but that doesn't mean we give up on tactics like Social Distancing.  Hell, I should use that in Alleron as a name for a technique, but it's really awkward.

Until next time!

Previously:  Chapter 43: The Assault Continues - Biran!| Next  Next:  Chapter 45 - Samuel's Struggle

Start Over:  Episode #1, Habbo and Goldhook.

Support The Comic On Patreon! | The Author, Jesse Pohlman's Website!