I'm not sure about changing the name yet - I won't change the domain name obviously. I might buy a second one and forward it if I did change the name. That's one thing that's definitely up in the air. I've tried to get in contact with Ka-Blam about getting my high-res files from them and have gotten no response. So that's a little bit... well... frustrating to say the least.

From here, where do we go? Well, I need to fix this archive and that will take a little time. I need to fix this whole site. There's a bug in the Flash portion that makes everyone have to download the Flash player - it's a version script and it's completely invalid and I just haven't had time to go in and fix it. As for the comic itself, the prologue will somewhat stay the same but I'm gonna take out some of the old panels and replace them with new ones. The old art style that sneaks in and out in Chapter 1 will hopefully get removed. I know a lot of people really loved the anime look but it's something that always drove me up a wall. I imagine my consistency will be for crap for a while - I don't draw everyday like I used to. But I'm going to work really hard in the time I do have to tell this story.

Check out the new tunes on the SCD Soundtrack over there on the left if you missed them - Delta Cry and Lux Cecis. Still figuring out how to best integrate the soundtrack into the website.

Thank you to everyone who sent in their support. It means the world to know that I'm not going to get shot for wiping the slate clean.

In case you missed it-

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A-kon ended rather brutally for me despite all the good times. Michael was talking to a few SCD readers and thinking that I was overhearing (underestimating how deaf I really have become) he informed me that my hard drive was officially unrecoverable. Apparently some part of the drive crashed onto the media itself and it shredded? I don't know, understand, or care about the details at this point.

This has obviously been very sobering for me. I've been through a lot with SCD - from losing my apartment and getting moved home because of illness, getting diagnosed with a brain tumor and then epilepsy, my car catching on fire, my apartment building catching on fire, to losing my initial income and having to take on a full-time job, to that whole thing with my ex, to moving to Tennessee, to my heater catching on fire, to Rally getting screwed up, to the economy crashing, to trying to juggle a new venture because of the economy, to this... it's been a not-so pleasant ride. But I've been raised in a tough household - you don't cry. You push through and move forward.

But driving home last Sunday I really started to weigh the benefits of pushing forward with the project. It has seemed for the last five years like I was fighting a never-ending battle. And now I wonder if I've officially developed a complex - if I do recover from this, will I constantly wonder, 'What's next?'

I've deeply considered in the last 24hours taking this opportunity to start fresh. It will take me around 320 hours to recover what I lost on Chapter 8. This isn't including what random pages I had not backed up on Chapter 7 and 6 (which wasn't too bad). Selling Book 1 this weekend made me really realize how far the art and story had come, and how far I had come as a writer/artist. I would never print Book 1 again - not to set next to Book 2. I've redone Chapter 1 in a way that I'm proud to set it in the same rack as Chapters 6, 7, and what I had finished of 8.

That's what I would like to do. I'd love to take my laptop and tablet with me on my tour and just work on telling the story over, sans brain tumor scares, seizures, cars and homes catching on fire, and all the epic amounts of ridiculous bullshit. That's what I would like to do. After discussing it on DeviantArt and amongst my peers it seems to be what I am going to do, regardless of what is said to deter me here. If you're pissed about it, then YOU can piss off. Lux Cecis up there is a very good idea of how I feel about everything right now - that is the music of my brainpan and I'd rather it not be. So I'm moving forward. I want to have this comic in color like the Wowio Chapter 1 was. I want to integrate the soundtrack into the site. I have really great ideas with the help of my great friends at dA. Look for more starting soon.

Love and heart to everyone who has struck through with me so far, who will stay to see the new progress, and who has loved this project as much as I have. I'm sorry my hard drive crashed. But hopefully I can make this experience richer for it.