#project break

"A scattered band of troubled adults struggle to live in reality."

you masc with the egbert teeth? 🤨

it's been one year since the stable launch of Project BREAK... and a lot has happened since. it might not seem as much by the way things look around here, since the comic's update schedule has been at a standstill for almost a year now — let's talk about that.

for the past several months (and beyond), i've been experiencing what i can only really describe in polite company as an extended mental health crisis, and i have had to choose what to focus on between trying not to lose my mind, or writing a comic about losing my mind. it happens to a lot of us, and in these times it is especially rough, but let's just say i'm eternally grateful to have the company that i do.

everyone says being crazy makes for better art. and while that's probably true, poor material circumstances can also majorly hinder any artistic endeavor in a large number of ways. and to me at least, poor circumstances are the core of insanity, so who's really to say.

this is not to say that work has not been done on the comic — i have spent at minimum 2-3 days per week allowing new details about the story to take form in my mind, bouncing ideas off my most trusted creative partners-in-crime, and generally fleshing out the thematic throughlines a lot more as i come to a deeper understanding of the story i want to tell.

it turns out, however, that none of this is conducive to the process of creating what was always supposed to be a very raw and experimental work. i've been stuck procrastinating on a single flash sequence for almost a year because i've fallen into the trap of always trying to write in anticipation of later parts of the story that don't exist yet — i have been borrowing meaning from the future, making me tonight's biggest loser.

as always, loathsome a pill it may be to swallow, the key lies in just buckling down and doing it. so that's what i'm going to do. once i finish moving, at least. by the time this post goes up, i'll probably be real busy packing, and once everything's moved i'll have to settle in first.

after that, though? we're off to the races. i'm going to begin building a backlog of pages that gives me enough room to develop the story at a rate i find satisfying, and when i've got enough of a headstart, updates will resume proper, probably within january if not earlier. i hope to see you there.

It's modus mayhem, folks.

what the fuck. who gave him that sword. how did he get that.