I am not a marketing genus

So here’s what I was planning to do. Put up a few ad For Exiern: Dark Reflections with no explanation. Let the buzz build and then in mid November reveal what is going on. It is an effective marketing technique. It’s also incredibly annoying.

I am not the waiting type of guy. 12:01 on Christmas I am in front of the tree a whirlwind of torn wrapping paper. I have never made it through that stupid Knock Knock-Banana joke. Third banana and the teller is lying unconscious on the floor. I hate to wait

So the marketing campaign I had so skillfully planed for Dark Reflections was driving me nuts. I don’t know about you guys but I was bugging the heck out of myself.

So now I shall proceed to spill the bean. Exiern: Dark Reflections is a new spin off comic that is going to start running in November. It will be drawn by a different artist and have a slightly darker tone to it. Violence and nudity while not the point of the comic will be part of the comic and will be uncensored.

Unlike Exiern there will be no member’s area to EDR everybody will get the same comic. However I still need to pay the artist somehow. So we will be using a pay as you go model on the comic. A donation level will be set (we are not quite sure what that level will be yet) and once we reach that goal the next page will be drawn and not before. Then the counter will be reset for the next page.

Exiern: Dark Reflections started off as a donation comic. Through conversation with the artist the story grew to a point where it was oblivious that it deserved its own comic. The basic premise is a simple question “What if Faden had been able to control Typhan-Knee’s mind”

So now the marketing campaign is ruined. Try to act surprised when the next three ad appear.

That’s all for now…

You know I really have to come up with a clever way to end these posts.

Peonie handles a magic staff.

Got my first commission back from http://david-grier.deviantart.com/ an awesome wallpaper of Peonie with a magic staff. As always you can get a copy of the wallpaper for a donation to the comic and members get access to all the wallpapers and bonus comics with their membership. In addition if I receive over $300 in donations by November 15^th I will commission a second wallpaper and send it out to all donor for free.

Now you may have noticed that I haven't been updating the donation bar. There are two reasons for that. The first memberships have been receiving the lion share of the money with the donations being pretty puny each month. The second reason is that I realized that the goals on the donation bar were basically a fantasy.

Studio Boom can produce one comic per week currently. That’s it. No matter how much money we throw at them they can’t currently do more. Well technical I suppose there would be some amount of money but it is much more than this little internet comic can manage. So promising a extra comic at certain price points was wishful thinking at best and at worst a lie

But I can always find an artist to do and extra wallpaper or side comic. So instead of promising extra comic now I’ll be promising extra extras. If things work our we will be getting some cool wallpaper and a “What If” comic that examines what would have happened if Faden managed to control Tiffany’ mind.

Well that’s all for now….

You know I really should come up with a clever saying to end these post with.