April Report (Patreon)

Hi everyone - unfortunately I fell well-short of of my early March goal to finish Swords #500 and I couldn't put off having a break any longer for my own wellbeing, so I'm still working towards the dramatic conclusion of the Demon King battle.

I've had a lot of personal challenges going on which is why my break dragged out so much, but it's time to dust off my drawing skills and get things done. I'll talk more about those things soon!

You may have seen for April Fools I announced a game and an anime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBdrqqxfSPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjE0MEa2ewk
I'm hoping both of these videos help move along important behind-the-scenes conversations about the future of the series, but I can't go in to too much detail until things get signed.

After Episode 500 is done, I'll be focusing on lots of quick, easy updates for a while. It's hard to grow your audience with plot heavy content and people are starting to miss dumb jokes.

April Roadmap

• Complete Swords Episode #500!
• Expand the range of digital rewards on Patreon - I want to be able to stay in the top #100 comic artists for more than a month or two at a time
• Do lots of dumb joke episodes in quick succession.
• Continue with February Roadmap

February/March Roadmap

• Organize the release of a physical book of Swords 1-500
• Complete sketches for January signups
• Update the website with credits for all Royal Tier signups
• Complete t-shirt design for Royal Tier
• Continue to expand Swords World Map
• Complete episodes 9 and 10 of Axes
• New promotional video for Patreon page
• Start Shields? Probably not.
• Complete Swords Episode #500 on March 5th, for Swords 3rd Birthday

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