Posted on 16 November 2023 by JamesHi, James here. It's another update! First up, thank you for the outpouring of support. I wined and dined the part of the team local to my area to celebrate. That is to say, five of us got delivery and sat in my living room and talked about how cool you guys are. We looked at fanart and laughed at posts and shared valuable life experiences. It was lovely, and also delicious.
On twitter we posted some previews from the patreon rewards. We will eventually post these on the site itself, but we want people who are paying for it to have it to themselves for a while. If you are interested in checking them out there is a link to the patreon up at the top of the page. Also right HERE (make this a link to the patreon) (link to the not patreon). Nothing there will ever be required to continue enjoying the comic for free though. Just a lot of fun bonus stuff.
This month we tried going at it without a newpost every week to see how that felt. I don’t know if I liked it, but the problem arises that there won’t always be news to report. Even today’s post is a little thin. So I’m thinking maybe two a month? How do you guys feel about that. Reply to the twitter thread or in the reddit post that usually goes up. I tend to try and read those two on my own time. I wonder if there is a secret third large community out there. Maybe tumblr? Mysterious…
As part of an HICU initiative, we have begun reaching out to a few large communities and fan-driven projects in order to establish more open lines of communication. Hopefully opening these lines of communication will help to set up some new and exciting future collaborations. I am a little less involved in this part of things, since I’m usually overseeing the creative side of things. Our good friend Miles is heading this one up so please be kind to him. While typically the name of the game here is transparency, since there are other parties involved it's less “up to me” than usual. “Other parties” in this instance doesn’t mean some corporate sponsor or w/e I mean literally the people we are talking to. Don’t worry, it's just common courtesy and not some sort of secret backroom deal.
Speaking of backroom deals, how about that update! Have you read it yet? Go read it!
A summary:
James here.
Thanks.
Briefly mentioned the patreon rewards. They are not required to enjoy the comic, just fun extras.
Trying different update/newspost schedules, give us some feedback. (reddit mentioned)
HICU is reaching out to some fan communities and projects to establish communication and potential collaboration.
Miles (one of the writers) is heading that one up so I (James) have less to say about it.
Waiting to hear back from some of them, but will tell you about it when it goes through.