Well, this sure has been an exciting Saturday!

We decided to start advertising on GG-Guys.com and TheSlackerz.com, some webcomics we enjoy reading, with the goal of sucking their readers from them with our comic.  We noticed quite quickly, however, that site performance was suffering with only a load of a few hundred users per day.

We made the decision to move the site to a Linode Virtual Machine, and I, Shawn, started making preparations.  And somehow in the process the Missing Number Comics on Dreamhost completely borked itself.  And a DNS entry was entered incorrectly.  And as errors compounded onto cached errors, I lost more and more of my sanity!

The curse of Missing Number has struck again!

But if you are reading this post, and seeing this comic, then your DNS has finally cleared itself and you are now seeing our shiny new site.  Doesn’t look like much change on the face, but I guarantee you, we went from clogged Volkswagen Bug to Joint Strike Fighter on the inside, with an easy ramp up to even more power if necessary.

So, when we begin our advertising again, it’ll be with a site that works   Thanks for your patience!

One final note, now that the ranting has died down, our local sprite artist produced the two sprites which appear in the second frame, from hand, without using a Pokemon base sprite:

Why redraw these guys if they’re pretty much the characters from Fire Red/Leaf Green?  Details.  The costume details for the Fire Red and Leaf Green male and female player characters don’t exactly match our Male Player Character and Female Player Character.  And we wanted to make it obvious that these sprites and characters were ours, not just similar versions of well known characters (like our rendition of Naruto).  I would put Male Player Character and Female Player Character into the “Original” character column.  Of course, you’ve only seen these guys as sprites, but I can assure you that when they appear in the comic, their uniqueness WILL appear!

Episode Three. Lots of fun. We had server issues and domain name issues and subversion issues…

…but eventually we got our site back up! With a new comic!

No, we aren’t changing update dates. Next week we will have an update up 9PM Central, just like advertised.

Our inker worked overtime getting this comic inked, and said it was very hard. So many people to ink. Even more, next time!

He is also responsible for the sprites in our header.

Our coloring guy wouldn’t shut up about how he would spend over an hour working on some fine details, just to have it go away when we downsample the comic to 128 colors/png. He says that he’ll have to find some tricks around this obstacle.

This comic is a “tribute” to F@NB0Y$, the webcomic that got us all hooked*, then made us all get off our butts and start ours! We even lifted the government joke straight from them! Thanks Scott!

We hope you enjoy this update and come back soon!

* (FUTURE EDITORS NOTE:  You will notice just HOW OFTEN we refer to Fanboys.  There is a reason… that comic LITERALLY  got us off our collective lazy butts and started working on our own comic.  Thanks Scott!)