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NEWS FLASH!!
Aleric will be at Illusive Comics and Games in Santa Clara (Map) THIS SATURDAY! I’ll be there all day for their 1 year anniversary party. Discounts, other artists, fun, games, and ZOMBIES!!! There might even be a new Exclusive Comic for anyone who drops by…
Now, back to your regularly scheduled News Post…
So I wanted to apologize for the late news post, but at least there was a new comic up for you and ready to go on Monday!
I’ve been at Fanime 2008 for the whole weekend, and I must say, it was FANTASTIC. I’ve really enjoyed talking with everyone who came by. I even did a couple of sketches for people, finished 3 comics, promoted Hell Has Found Me and Pretty Darn Quick, got some sketches from, and chatted with Scott Ramsoomair of VG cats and Shawn Handyside of Staccato! Best of all, are all the new readers that I met, the free con-exclusive comics I handed out, the piece of fan art that was given to me, let me tell you, the list just keeps going. I’ll definitely be going back.
All in all, one gigantic can of Awesome.
I also must say I learned a lot, and have made a few decisions… don’t worry, none are bad!
First: I love doing this. I don’t know why I didn’t start earlier. I must be some kind of noob or something.
Second: When I started HHFM, I swore to myself that I wouldn’t get behind, that I wouldn’t miss updates. To that end, I decided that M-W-F updates were totally doable, and I’d start training myself now to upgrade to a 5 per week schedule later. I’m currently over 2 months ahead on comics. (YAY!) Instead of converting over to a 5/week schedule now, I’m going to pull back on producing the comics a little (JUST a little) and get to work on the REST of my art. Don’t worry, I won’t be missing updates: I’m still going to be building my buffer, just a little more slowly than before. This will eventually give me a huge buffer that will give me the time to start making other cool things like shirts, books, stickers and other things you might buy… yes, I need to get out of my work cube 
Third: I’m currently planning out what cons I’ll be attending in the future, and the comic I gave away at Fanime was SO successful that I’ll be doing it again. In fact, I’m planning that each con I go to will have a special Con-Exclusive comic that I will hand out for FREE. It means that the comic I handed out over the weekend will NOT be available online, and that if you want to read other Con-Exclusives, you’ll have to come say “hi!” to me.
Anyway, thanks so much for reading HHFM! Please vote for me on Top Web Comics!! A new PDQ comic (the third) went up on Monday!
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Had to throw in a reference to one of my favorite googly-eyed movie characters… I swear I hear his voice every time a murloc gargles at me.
…and now Fanime 2008 is here! I’m at the Katgirl Studios table, giving away free copies of a special edition comic! I’ll be there pretty much all weekend, but if things go slowly, I may find a pickup game over in the 40k area… or I may be drawing more comics. I’ll be off line for most of the weekend, but we’ll be back Monday with a new comic, a new incentive PDQ, and more!
cheers!
Aleric
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From the TMI file: in a game called Warhammer 40,000, technological know-how has devolved to a religion, where ‘tech-priests’ call on ‘machine spirits’ to ‘heal themselves’. Their machine-god is known as the Omnissiah, and they have to learn and follow ancient rites and prayers to revive and appease the machine spirits.
We call it cussing at the machine while we fix it.
Anyway, I’ve only gotten one poor, lonely single email about wanting desktop images… so unless I get more, it’ll be put on the backburner for a while so I can get other things finished. Either way, you all get more content, and I’m happy to do it.
As far as emails go, that one lonely email is sad all by himself. He needs friends to keep him company, (and to prevent me from singing to keep him company). So drop me a line! I’ll be sure to read it. Probably even respond to it! (gasp)
Someone asked me yesterday what voting for HHFM actually does, so I thought I’d tell you all as well. You know, in case you were wondering… or even if you weren’t… I would be ecstatic to make it to within the top 100 comics of TWC, because that puts a link for us on their front page. It’s a tool to get more readers, which encourages me to write more comics, so we can get more readers, so I write more… well you get the idea. I’m trying to turn a vicious cycle into a vortex of web-destruction that sucks everything into my comic, and thereby rule the world. So far, HHFM has made it all the way to the mid-450’s on Top Web Comics! So Clicky the Linky and add another vote!
See you next week!
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Some time ago while writing scripts for HHFM, I realized that while World of Warcraft was fun and all, I really couldn’t see me dedicating a long-standing comic to just WoW. Certainly it would be fun, but eventually World of Warcraft would shut down or be replaced, and then the entire comic would be dated. Not to mention inaccessible to more than a few readers out there.
So I decided to branch out a bit. Of course, that could also mean that it becomes a lot more difficult to describe. So now HHFM is a MMO-Gaming-Pop culture-Movie comic featuring an undead human(oid?) named Rossi and an ork named James.
Please remember to vote for HHFM in Top Web Comics (link to the left!) new Incentive image should be up in the morning!!
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We now return you to your regularly scheduled story arc.
Ah, the Bard. So eloquent a writer, his verse has been an inspiration to artists for generations. Although I suspect he’d be clubbing me with a manuscript if he could see what I just did with Hamlet’s soliloquy. On the other hand, considering how much of his verse has been taken out of high school curriculum, maybe he’d actually applaud me for doing my little part to keep his works alive.
So harken friends, and pray attend my words. Methinks it would be a day fine-spent if thou wouldst go and peruse one of his many masterpieces.
…Even if it is the Klingon Hamlet.
One other thing I should mention. It was brought to my attention that I failed to thank someone for their part in getting HHFM off the ground. This person is near and dear to my heart, and I apologize for the oversight: Jamie, thank you for providing such a perfect name for my comic, and for the inspiration that you have provided thus far.Finally, I’m happy to share, I got my first FAN MAIL the other day!! I’m so excited, here’s a little bit of it to share with you all!
Just want to say right now your comic looks promising and a like a good read. I will be following it. Just as an FYI I was the kid with the 40k Dark Templar army talking to you about WoW.
Thanks for the encouragement, Samus! It’s great to hear that people are enjoying my comic… and if you stay tuned long enough, you may even see a comic based on some of the things we chatted about… For the rest of you, let this serve as fair warning! Any positive emails I get may encourage me to make more comics…
…I’m just saying.
(Pssst! Remember to vote! Votey vote vote! Use the vote button to the left and VOTE!)
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Hell Has Found Me has been active for a whole week! Well, with 4 comics done, more than a week really, but who’s counting?
I’d love to see some more readers, and start making my way to one of the best webcomics around, and to that end, I’d like to ask all you lovely readers two favors:
First,
Forward the link to your friends! Share this comic with others! Tell them how great this comic is, or at least how not-boring it is.
Second,
Click this link, and VOTE! for HHFM on this top-comics website.
Update @ 8:02am:
Webmonkey says: Sorry about the missing comic this morning, folks — teething troubles with the new site. I’ve fixed the problem now and docked myself a day’s bananas.
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