Well THIS is embarrassing...

 I was on track for the comic. I really was.

Then I left my iPad in the seat pocket on the airplane.

So... that means all the art for the latest trip was lost along with the iPad. The tablet is either gone, or will come back to me after it passes through the digestive system of the Frontier airlines lost-and-found system. God only knows how long that will take.

Since my work relies on having the tablet, I've ordered a new one, and will be able to recover the art from the cloud backup. Which is good, but it means the comic will be late. How late depends on how long it takes the new tablet to arrive, plus some time to do the finishing work on the comic.

I feel very, very stupid. Apologies to all.

Updates (i.e., why there's no comic this month)

Hi everyone,

As I mentioned at the end of December 2023, I was laid off from my job of 20 years. This has caused some disruption of my life, to say the least.

Disruption can be a good thing. In this case, I think it is. After several miserable months of attempting to look for work in corporate America (long story short: It sucks. Hard.), in April I decided to say "To hell with it."

Candi and I are starting our own business. We're calling it Oblique Adventures.

I'm not going into many details right now, since there are a lot of things we need to settle on. The nature of the business, though, is that we're going to be a 3rd-party content creator for table-top role playing games (TTRPGs), most notably Dungeons & Dragons. 

It's very exciting. Very scary, too, but in a way much less horrifying than the prospect of going back into another corporate hellscape. I have not felt this eager and energized about work in a long, long time.

I'll be keeping you up to date as developments develop. 

This rather enormous lifestyle change has made April a dizzying whirlwind, which is why I didn't find the time and energy to finish the next strip. I have no intention of abandoning Thunderstruck... but I may need to ask for some slack here and there as we get Oblique Adventures up and running. 

 So... that's the big news! Wish us luck, and I look forward to sharing our work with you in the coming months.