Tristikov

Has Avania really been running for 5 years already? Time sure does fly… I would have liked to celebrate this milestone with some kind of cool new illustration or such, but as I am also just now celebrating my son’s first birthday, I will more than likely have to wait until I have regained the free time for such luxuries! To be honest, I would have also liked to be announcing the next chapter of Avania soon, but alas that will also have to wait a bit longer than in previous years. I am making progress on completing chapter 17′s pages, but with an energetic, inquisitive, and highly-mobile baby, producing comic pages is very slow going at the moment. As I mentioned in the Post-chapter 16 Status Update, I am considering splitting chapter 17 into two parts so as to not make everybody wait so darn long before getting another chunk of story. There is a natural break for it, and given how things have gone in the past few months, I believe this will be my course of action… How long it takes

Whew, back on the ground once again... And with the arrival of the White Knights at Frontier HQ, the ever-increasing cast of characters is finally assembled at this story’s principal location! There is a lot of excitement yet to come of course, and a bit of drama too... I’m very happy to already be this far into the first season-arc of Avania. Even if “already” has taken the course of nearly 5 years now, time sure is flying by! Chapter 16 was the first chapter I have finished while a new father, and the production experience was more challenging than for previous chapters, to say the least... Never the less, I think the result was fantastic and worth all the [additional] time it took! From what I can estimate based on my current situation, I expect the upcoming chapter 17 will take a bit longer by comparison, owing to the balance of the total page count for Issue No.8 skewing slightly heavier for this next chapter. Sadly, I’ve also received some not good news that may affect my