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Well, hopefully everyone's endured the reruns with only minor injuries, because next week the new ones start. (I dare say they look a little more professional.)

Tomorrow's update is the last of the reruns, so no comic on Friday, but a never-before-aired episode of Unit Zero will follow every tuesday for...

*checks notes*

Ten weeks, and then I'll do something a little lighter for a while. Unit Zero won't be anywhere NEAR done at that point, y'understand. But this -installment- will.

Judging from the way my fancy has been flitting around lately, I'd say everyone's in for a year or so-long salad bar of mixed comics.

Maybe I'll settle in on a good, meaty project, or maybe I'll get more time and do a thicker update schedule. No telling at this point. But the current version of Unit Zero is definitely going another ten weeks.

Wooooooooo

Yay for new comics! Though I guess it'll seem the same to me since I didn't read most of the current batch the first time around. Ah well.

A thought about the latest comic--the first panel makes sense only in the context of the precise dialogue of the last panel of the previous comic. Now, for a person reading a comic in the archives or in print, that's not a big deal, but if you're only going to update a comic once or twice a week, the "page breaks" do matter. So it would be advisable to make sure you're not asking us, your humble readers, to remember too much between weekly installments. For instance, in Feb. 18th's comic, I remembered why Griffin and Arnold were on the floor and immobile, but on Tuesday I had to go back and look up what Dersky was agreeing with--after which delay, most of the humor was lost.

Of course, in this particular case my whole point is moot, since anyone reading this strip from now on will almost certainly have read the previous one just before. And taken together, the past two comics work very well. ^^

Can't wait to see the new(er) strips!

--RS

Eeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaauuuuuhhhhhhhhhhmmmmm...

That is a good point. I agree completely.

However, Unit Zero is scripted and storyboarded clean out into page fifty plus; changing it would be daunting at best.

Hopefully, the occasional bit of dialog that spans the borders won't be too confusing; for the large part, the story "clumps" around pages and self-organizes punchlines toward the page ends.

But Unit Zero isn't really written as a webcomic, it's written as a comic book. Sure, a sideways comic book that you get off the internet, but a comic book nonetheless. This is why it first appeared in the VCL account; I didn't hink it really "worked" as a page-by-page webcomic, and at least in this reguard, it doesn't.

BUT, I find that it fills in the space between Umlaut House and my next project nicely, and you'll all be getting more pages of it as time progresses, especially once I get out into the working world, where they have this thing called Weekends, which, if the legends are true, cosist of TWO ENTIRE DAYS, solid, mind you, of NOT GOING TO WORK. They're said to happen EVERY WEEK, meaning that a person in the working world is actually only working FIVE out of every SEVEN days.

Some of us graduate students are convinced they're a myth, but, well, just call me a believer.

Yay for comic salad bars!

Yes, I'm pretty random today.


Cinni

I'm really enjoying UZ. Though I'm scared that those two are starting to get along now.

allan_ecker wrote:...especially once I get out into the working world, where they have this thing called Weekends, which, if the legends are true, cosist of TWO ENTIRE DAYS, solid, mind you, of NOT GOING TO WORK. They're said to happen EVERY WEEK, meaning that a person in the working world is actually only working FIVE out of every SEVEN days.

Yes, it is quite a pleasant shock... having a job that you don't need to take home with you. Being able to come home and think about things other than work. Having those 2 extra days when you can do something other than work on your research.

The interview with Tektronix went fairly well; any time you spend eight hours talking to engineers is going to lay the totality of your knowledge fairly flat on the table, if ya get my meaning, but in a company where the high-frequency ASIC group has several members upwards of 50 years old, my knowledge isn't exactly the quality they're hiring me for.