bossboi

Tl:dr -  I lack initiative and life happens.

Hello all you internet personalities, bots and all configurations in between,  It's me (until maybe another year from now)!

2018 to date has been the most eventful year of my life.  I've lost a job, quit a job, lost a close family member and forgotten I existed on this site for months at a time.  So here's the good, the bad and (maybe) the ugly reasons why.

I have only one "full-time" job and even with all the leftover time I have, I can't draw longer than 30 minutes without feeling burned out.  Most of that time is spent on games, or sleeping.  It's pretty depressing.

On the positive side, some of the spare time I have is spent in real life with my friends and I haven't been this active in my social life since leaving college.  As such, I have been incorporated into a group that plans to engage in big things next year.  My part in this circle largely consists of learning dances and reviewing old ones.

Furthermore, I have also been looking to move out on my own and a couple months ago I was asked by some of my pals if I wanted to look for a place to room with them.  So now, we're all looking, while I'm trying to find my own car, and anticipate my decrease in budget freedoms at the same time.  Until all those waves pass and settle down, I'm not going to be doing much in the way of recreational activities.

As most of you know and have acknowledged when I said so, ASR has been put on hiatus for the better part of three years.  What some may not know is that Page 42 of ASR has a link to a concept sketch of Page 43.  But getting it off the ground again like I wanted, it just ended up flopping on the floor in a defeated thud.  Maybe I didn't try hard enough.  Now, I'm not sure I could ever move forward with this.  In all honesty this "story" wasn't meant to last past Page 8.  It was only a Lord of the Rings parallel.  I never say die but doing all the art from lines, color, and custom speech bubbles is a surefire way to keep me from making long running comics for a while.

So, here ends The Alternate Story Reference, on a cliffhanger and as a bittersweet failure.

To all who read these words,

My old hardware has begun to act it's age, forcing me to retire them to the electronic heavens.  A couple months of saving pennies has earned me new stuff to continue my exploits and shuffle behind the bandwagon that has LONG since departed.

As for the title that brought you here today, I shall be attempting to stream (for the first time in my conscious life) next week on March 9th or a day earlier or later, depending if I'm called or assigned to work.  Go here for updates  and here for my Picarto channel!

If the links don't work:
Facebook: [link]
Picarto: picarto.tv/Bossboi

The next page for ASR is halfway done but I'm sorry to say it's been like that for over 2 months.  The initial passion I had for making these pages has long since died out, so as much as it makes me cringe to say this, I'm only working on them when I feel like it.

This likely comes as grand disappointment for most of you who follow the story, and though this sounds like I don't care about my readers, just lazy, rude etc, that is NOT what I'm trying to get across.  I really do appreciate how well received this story was over the three years I've been working on this.  As it goes, I'm wired as such that making full color comic pages for that long gets exhausting.

Of course I have no intention of stopping cold.  This adventure hasn't even come close the best parts and I want to see them through.  Only now, I don't have any clear idea of when the next page will be ready this year.

Again, I'm sorry for disappointing everyone.  It's really, depressing to let so many people down like this...

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 - Happy New Years and here's to 2016!

ASR: Crystal Empire will resume January 1st 2016.

I'm working towards setting up a patreon.