Community Involvement Initiative #1

First off, depending on how this goes depends on how many submissions I get on this.

Anyways, let's get down to business. No, not to defeat the Huns (although that would be cool, too) - I want to get the community (as small as it is) involved in Paradoxium Returns a little bit more. So, how do I do this? Easy.

I want y'all to design an Otroid, Jij, or Berix and submit it to me here. Do this, and your character will appear in one of the remade comics. I promise. Of course, your Otroid designs will need to be given to me sooner than the rest; we all know what happens to Ta'Ris. I think.

If you want to develop the character you designed even more, that's fine by me. The more developed the better, I say. And no, this is not a shameless ploy to get people to make OCs, nor am I lazy.

We all know that one of those or both were lies.

Anyways, I'll provide templates tomorrow.

Thank you in advance!

The Length of Paradoxium

Alright, I did some math.
TEoR (the next arc after PR) is looking to be about 200 comics long.
I have 5 more arcs planned after that.
If I estimate that all arcs are about 200 comics long (not including PR), then we have about 1280 comics total.
If I post at the rate I have been, that'll take 48 years to complete.

I either need to cut the fat or post a lot faster. And since I don't see myself being able to post about 3 comics a week any time soon (unless I get paid to do it, but even then, it'd be twice a week), the most viable option is to cut out the fat. And unfortunately, there's so much epic stuff I don't want that to happen.

Maybe I integrate future arcs even deeper with TEoR. It's a viable option, and might make it a little longer - but we'll see. A lot of it depends on the fandom, really.

Campaign to Get Paradoxium Returns it’s Own Domain

So, here’s the deal! I’m looking into getting Paradoxium Returns its own domain, meaning its own website. It’ll be the final step into completely and entirely owning it today, as earlier, I gave it a Creative Commons license. However, this is where things get a little complicated.

I’ve been looking at the webcomics that I follow (specifically Sandra and Woo/Gaia,Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life, xkcd, and Romantically Apocalyptic), and from what it seems, they all like using WordPress. Now, here are the issues with that. If I use WordPress, these things happen: I don’t get the option of excluding ads (sorry), and the domain name will cost $18. However, I’m not saying for sure that I’ll be going with WordPress; in the end, I may stick with Blogger or even a different site.

If I do go with WordPress, I’ll want as much money as possible to keep the domain name for as long as possible (currently looking like it’s going to be paradoxiumreturns.com), and by that, I mean at least 10 years. What that’ll come out to be depends on who I go with. Blogger/Google: $100. WordPress: $180.

Remember the commissions that I said I’d do for money? Now I have a purpose for the money that we can all agree on (for the most part). Until we reach the goal, 10% will be put aside for personal things, but the rest of the 90% of the funds will be put into a fund to get PR it’s own domain. For more information on commissions, click here.

This is the last step in my goal of getting PR it’s own site, and I don’t want to take people’s money just for a site. I also want to draw you things.

-Howard H. Drammond

Information on providers that I’ve gathered (if you want to know):

Blogger: I like this because I’m already on here. However, there’s no optimization for comics here; no automatic “last” buttons, I have to make sure that I put in the links correctly, etc. On the other hand, this only costs $10/year for the private domain name alone.

WordPress: Comes with an expansion optimized for comics fittingly called ComicPress. I’m still figuring this out, but by the time I get to the goal, I’ll have either decided against it or figured it out entirely. It’s the optimization for comics that draws me in, but at the same time, just $18 for the custom domain and minimal customization? Eh… EDIT: I can’t even change the fonts without paying an extra $30. I don’t want to do this.

Tumblr: Although this is a wonderful platform we’re using, it just isn’t right forParadoxium Returns.

Arisen

You know those little areas on my comic after the comic itself  where I post things about my life? No longer! It's going here. And we all know what that means.

This blog is back from the dead!

*slow claps*

Volcark and Skelgra

Mostly so I could get a link to this picture. Would you argue if I turned this into a "This is my art so be happy" blog?