TL; DR Issue 5 will release sometime January 2026. Sorry not sorry.
I crash and burned in October. Hard. To many it was a silent thing; I just disappear off the internet once more. No big deal. Who really cares? Maybe she’ll come back around, maybe she won’t. I’m far from the first comic creator out there to experience burnout.
After the initial deadline I set for myself and boldly proclaimed came and went, one word kept echoing through my mind. A word no one ever utters fondly: failure.
Failure.
You’re a fucking failure. You spent this entire year talking all this shit about the release and “big things coming” and all these teasers and being a fuckwad on the internet, and for what?
This?
Nothing?
You’re a failure.
Failure. You know, even though this nasty voice that has lived in my head rent-free for decades can be particularly cruel… they’re not wrong. I did fail. I didn’t do what I set out to do. It’s as cut and dry as that, really. But that’s okay. Because failure is only final when you let it convince you to quit. And I haven’t. I just let my absurd expectations of myself get the best of me… again.
So here I am at my desk once again, 2 months later. Still working on this thing, just at a different pace now. Prioritizing my bandwidth instead of trying to go at Mach 5 with everything in my life. I anticipate Volume 2 being ready to release sometime in January, but I can’t (and won’t) give a hard date on that, just so I’m not toying with anyone’s expectations (especially mine). And despite what my little TL;DR summary up top says, to my smallllll handful of fans out there who enjoy my story and were looking forward to Volume 2 coming out when I said it would: I am deeply sorry.