I tried to size this so the two large panels would be less than 800 pixels wide, so each of the widest panels is wholly visible on screens with smaller resolutions.  Let me know if it's too big for you ("it" still meaning the comic).  I confess it's still too big for me:  I just noticed Xanga did the stupid thing where it makes all the posts on the same page as a large image file as wide as that image, meaning people have to drag back and forth across the screen to read what I've typed.  I hate that.  Does anyone know how to fix that?  If not, I'll have to size any future comics for this here Interwub* diary accordingly.

Exciting times for comics, nationally and locally.  They're starting to get a lot of scholarly recognition, and this trend has even breached the English department at the bonny campus where I dropped out from studying.  Several profs are doing a book where each one analyzes a different graphic novel!  My housemate Sherwood still goes to school at the same place, and partly inspired by William Blake, he's doing his final English project on illuminated manuscripts and comics.  He plans to write poetry and have a friend illustrate it as part of the project, and he has an additional comics project in the works with several more friends.  Including Sherw', the number of people who have worked on comics that I've lived with is now up to five, not including myself.  How does that happen?  What universe am I living in, and whom can I thank?

I should have made open mention of it months ago, but in other Stevocentric comics news,  I'm putting together a comics anthology, collecting entries from earnest friends and acquaintances.  A few other reciprocal reader friends are slated to put something in.  Tell me, friends and strangers, do YOU like making comics?  Would you be interested in making a short comic for eventual inclusion in a print anthology titled "On the Mend"?  Adherence to the theme "on the mend" is not a requirement.

*tip o' the hat to Jeffrey Rowland for calling it "the Interwub".