More like post-mortem, since @avaniacomic is still down, but I'll get to that... Anyway, I hope everyone reading this on @worldofavania enjoyed the small update to start off Avania Issue No.9. I'm sure it will be to the surprise of no-one if I told you I'm busier than ever and that progress on the comic is very slow, and tumblr nuking my comic's main site did not help matters.
As mentioned, the old comic site is still down, but I was able to stand up a new look-alike version of the old site on ComicFury and point the worldofavania.com URL at it in relatively short order. Since then I've built out the site to nearly everything that it had before, save for the gallery page, and of course the full complement of regular comic pages and AvaniaMail entries--which are queued and will all be posted in time (the regular comic will update with one page every day until it runs out of pages. AvaniaMail will update one page a day for a little while before throttling back to every other day or so).
Other than the shock and disruption of an unexpected termination of the main site, I think it has turned out better than all right, and has made for an impromptu upgrade to the site's user experience. All previous functionality is either there or improved/expanded, and though I am bummed to not have the old Disqus comments visible (they still exist, but only on my admin console at the moment), the built-in ComicFury comments system allows for posting without requiring an account of any kind, which is nice!
I kept the two-sites-same-UI concept for the main comic and AvaniaMail (that is why @worldofavania and the classic mail page are still up by the way) but improved it on ComicFury by making AvaniaMail a true comic unto itself, with navigation and archive for the 110+ pages it now has--It even has a distinct variant of the title banner to make it readily apparent which section of the overall WorldofAvania site you are currently on!
Now that the newest pages have been posted here, and the old pages have been queued on the new site, it is once again time to get in the drawing grindset and finish out the chapter. This upcoming section is a longer one, so it may take me quite a while to finish... But if you've seen the Issue No.9 cover, you may guess where the story will be taking place!
As far as the old tumblr site, I will try reaching out to tumblr support again to see if I can get it restored, but who knows if it will be or how long we might have to wait. At this point I will be keeping the new main site and WorldofAvania.com URL on ComicFury, but if the old one comes back I will continue to update pages there too for old time's sake.
That is all for now, so thank you to everyone for your patience and support over the years... Going back through all those old pages made me nostalgic for the now-ancient-feeling before-times of 2018 (and even earlier, as AvaniaMail started before the actual comic was first published)! It has been quite a journey, and a relatively trouble-free one until now, but even so I look forward to continuing Avania and expanding on it in new ways in the years to come!