Friday

There will be work, followed by Other Stuff. The other stuff is mostly still a bit vague, though.

If anything interesting is happening in Coventry, I might attend. Alternatively, I may just have to be antisocial and read the new Neal Stephenson, Anathem, which turned up yesterday...

London, steampunk, corsetry and the end of the world...

With a subject line like that, I'm sure some of you already know that this is going to be a FreakAngels post. After all, I know that some of you already read it.

I also know that some of you don't do webcomics, or don't get on with Warren Ellis's stuff, or simply don't like the style/tone/language of this particular piece (it's very pretty but quite slow paced, except when it's suddenly quite violent. There's some bad language, too).

However, it occurred to me that I haven't rambled about it for a while, and there are almost certainly some of you who are 'neither of the above' and might actually quite like it. If so, please do give it a try - the link above goes to the first page of the first episode.

FreakAngels is published weekly, at noon (GMT) each Friday. You get six pages a week, although there are occasional skip weeks. It's intended to run for a long time, and it's being collected in print by Avatar Press (the first collection's due in a week or five).

In that sense, it's something of a publishing experiment - a paper-based comic company backing a creator-owned webcomic project by two people who are already comics professionals, in the hope that it'll sell paper copies as well and will eventually turn into something that's financially viable.