Turpentine Valley

Monday, September 21, 2015

Feedback please.

I need your help readers. As we draw closer to the January return of the comic I find myself stuck. Why? I've been working on Issue 10 and frankly.... I'm not impressed. I don't know if I just don't care for the direction, the current state of the art, or possibly just the approach to the current story, but something is really bugging me. So I am asking for your sincere feedback. I was thinking of either scraping issue 10 and starting over on it, doing from a different take OR starting the comic over in a a reboot but attempting to take it bigger. To be fair the comic right now is flawed. Anyone jumping in now has to go read through a bunch of punchline three panel comic strips to understand whats going on in issue one. Though I have my dedicated readers you all are in a relatively small group as compared to those not my readers.

So here is the catch if I reboot I'll be reformatting the way I handle the arcs. Since my comic is arc driven completely I will take an approach another comic I read has taken and separate all arcs into 4 parts and label them each in turn essentially putting three distinct arcs into each year. The biggest draw back would of course be that my readers now would have to put up with rehashes of older tales until about year 3. Though the pro is that this will give me a chance to address older stories in better ways and allow me to flesh out the characters and their respective personalities, and inner struggles to hopefully keep them from being too one dimensional. Then in year three we would finally be able to move forward and see where this rabbit hole takes us. So I ask my readers, would you rather I continue the path we are on, or see if we can do it better in a reboot, taking it back to Bob and Shelly first learning of their powers? I honestly need some feed back on this. If you have trouble leaving feed back on the blog follow the facebook link and give feed back there on the link to this blog. I need to know what my readers think.

Monday, August 24, 2015

Issue Nine is out!!!!!

Sorry for the delays folks, but circumstances and what not. Issue 9 is officially out for sale on the Kindle store. Also I need to make an announcement. The Valley is going on a short Hiatus after this issue. No this has nothing to do with sales and what have you, but rather that life has throw a lot at me while doing this comic and sometimes it feels as if I'm barely staying ahead of the deadlines. So in an effort to get ahead, and improve the story and art so that you the reader can have a better experience I will be taking some time to work on the next couple issues before I release them. The comic WILL return in January with Issue 10. Along the way I will make sure everyone of you is kept up to day with what is going on in regards to the comic's progress. I thank you all for your readership and hope to see you all stick around or return come January 1st 2016.

Friday, August 14, 2015

Turpentine Valley Issue 9 Page 10 - End of Preview

This is the end of the Issue 9 preview. The Entire issue will be available for purchase on your kindle or kindle enabled device next week. Thank you for reading Turpentine Valley!