Okay okay. Page 8.

I didn't want to start by apologizing because this is a free comic and I don't want to have to feel beholden to anyone.  THAT BEING SAID: I'm TOTALLY SORRY I didn't post on Sunday, as I usually do.

I'm also sorry because in my race to get to bed that evening I inadvertently lied about being able to do a double post tonight. 

You see, this comic is something I thought I'd finished in 2008.  It was in black and white, and at the time I intended it to be the first 12 page comic of an ongoing series. However, as I've started to scan, color and post these pages I realized the story was not as complete as I'd earlier thought.  Some of the panels are way too empty.  Some of the wording is illegible.  Characters over all looks don't match up from one panel to the next.  The worst part (to me) was that things were happening in the comic without actually progressing the plot of the story.  I've been somewhat able to move panels around, re-write narrative and dialogue, and generally fake it until this page.

Then I got to this page.

I tried to introduce the character of Don Thompson in this one page.  Ugh.  No good.

I mean, the page itself is fine.  But it only shows some letch being awful in a church.  It doesn't make him a character we care about (in a good way or a bad way.)  It doesn't even bring him into the over all narrative. 

So I started a second page to do all that. A second page that shows the outcome of the actions in the first.  And at least put him in the same story with our hero.

And that's what slowed me down. Trying to do a second page in three days. 
But that's not fair to the readers!  I realize that now.  Too late. And now I'm kind of rambling ...

Please, excuse tardiness of this page.  More on Mr. Donald Thompson next Sunday.