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Welcome to Eon's World, home to the adventures of Eon Squirrel and his friends, enemies, and many more besides. This is the story of one world's journey to overcome internal strife and take its place in the universe; a story of war and peace, of hatred and love, of exploring both the farthest reaches of space and the darkest recesses of the mind. This is the story of Eon's World. |
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Comic for February 05, 2011:
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Commentary I regret to announce that this will, in fact, be the final comic for now. I've got a lot of things going on right now and I need to take another hiatus. Some time this March, I expect to be moving away from Nottingham for quite some time (until the end of August at least) in order to take a job I've been offered on the Isle of Skye. Because of the logistics of travelling from here to Skye (most likely by train), I will have to leave a lot of my things behind to begin with, specifically my brand spanking new PC. I will have a netbook with me, but it doesn't have the RAM or the processing power to let me do more than write plans and scripts, unless I want a lot of frustration. With any luck, I'll be able to arrange for some of my things (my PC will be a priority) to be delivered to me on Skye some time after my initial arrival; but how soon this will be, I cannot say. In the interim, I intend to continue making preparations for transitioning away from sprites to something largely hand drawn. I'll be doing a lot of drawing for practice, as well as making models in Google SketchUp. If you haven't already seen what I've been doing on deviantART over the last few weeks, then take a look now. Now, I know I said there'd be more than this before the next hiatus and I'm sorry that won't be the case, but this story turned out to be the perfect place to leave Eon's World for the time being. In the next story arc, I was going to begin the election cycle and introduce the new political alliances that have formed between the parties on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter, as well as the three main candidates, but I'd rather not start that only to leave it for several months before continuing. Leaving it here feels much more appropriate. Anyways, that aside, I have used this comic as an opportunity to give you, the readers, a taste of things to come. You'll notice that, in panels 1, 14, and 15, I have used some of the 3D models I've been working on rather than sprites. Though the process will probably be more complicated in future comics than simply pasting the models onto a space background, like I've done here, this is what I am making the models for: to be used in my comic. This is the last sprite comic that I will make in this series. It may be the last I will ever make. When Eon's World returns later this year, it will be in a hand drawn format, using 3D models created in Google SketchUp to make vehicles, buildings, and other such regularly-shaped, artificial constructs that I'm not terribly good at drawing. With any luck, it should all work seamlessly, like it does in El Goonish Shive. As to the comic itself, I'm not sure there really is much to say about it, other than to reiterate my earlier point that it feels like a good place to stop for now. I will say that Katsuni required brand new sprites, because she hasn't actually appeared in the comic for so long now that her existing sprites were terribly outdated. Rather than updating her existing look, however, I gave her a new one, based on this recent drawing I did, as a test run of my new PC. I was tempted to put her in a suit, similar to the things Silky wears, but I don't think that would fit Katsuni's personality. Anyways, while the comic's on hiatus and I still have a damn good PC with internet access at my disposal, I shall endeavour to keep some kind of update going on the site. Possibly drawings or other images like the ones I uploaded during the summer hiatus last year. However, I'm not going to promise them on a bi-weekly or even regular basis like before, though I shall try to get as near to it as possible. My advice is to check back here once or twice a week and see what's happening. Finally, I'd like to thank my readers for their praise, criticism, and general support throughout my comic's history. I hope you guys will still be there when it returns, hopefully looking better than ever. ~ Eon Commentary from February 05, 2011. News Hi guys! It's been a while, I know, but I'm still alive and still working towards bringing the comic back, although I haven't been nearly proactive enough since I stopped in February. I was busy working on new 3D models for my ship right up until April, when I went to Skye. I'm sorry to say that things didn't work out as I'd planned on Skye, but, in many ways, things have turned out better. I've moved to Edinburgh now, I have a nice quiet place, a decent internet connection, and friends and family nearby. On Skye, I was unable to use my PC because of connectivity issues, but here I can use it again and I've wasted little time in getting back to work on those ships. The recent wave has been very promising and I may even need to go back and re-do so of my earlier models. You can see all of my ships so far here. I'm especially proud of my work on the Huntress-class destroyer, as well as the recent four Cornerian starships I've made. Rest assured that this story is not yet dead and I am working towards resuming it. :3 ~ Eon News from May 26, 2011. The forum's back up, it seems. ~ Eon News from October 16, 2010. There seems to be a problem with the forum. I'm not sure what it is. I'll find it if it's still not working later today. ~ Eon News from October 16, 2010. As I threatened to do in yesterday's commentary, I have officially created a blog, with the thoroughly imaginative title of Eon's Blog. There's nothing interesting to read there yet, but there should be eventually. I've added a link to it from the main page of this site, which you can find on the left amongst the other stylish buttons that don't really lead anywhere yet... Keep an eye out for the wee "NEW!" on those other buttons. That'll indicate when there's new content on those pages... or any content at all. ~ Eon News from October 10, 2010. After much tedium, the archives are complete once again! I fully expect to have made some mistakes somewhere, despite my best efforts. So, if you should notice any, please don't hesitate to say so on the forum. ~ Eon News from September 08, 2010.
As you may have
seen, I've added a commentary and news section to the main page. I'm
also adding commentary sections to each page in the archives as I
make them. So far, however, I've only written commentary for issue
#001, but I hope to write some for the rest of the comics
eventually too. ~ Eon News from September 06, 2010. As you can no doubt see by now, the website is currently undergoing a large makeover, which means a lot of things aren't quite working just yet. Don't worry, they will be working as soon as possible. Yes, I have actually changed the title of the comic from Eon's Comic to Eon's World. I know that Eon's Comic was the title for the best part of eight years, but I was never wholly satisfied with it as a title. It did begin as an in-joke that most readers probably won't understand, after all. I hope for the scheduled update on Wednesday to proceed as planned, as well as the archives to be fully available, but if there are any problems, I'll let you know here. If you have any comments or suggestions about the changes to the site, feel free to make them on the forum or over at STCOSSCACC. ~ Eon News from September 05, 2010. |
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