A tale of Dreamwalk Journal.Updates Monday. Co-writers: Lee M. Kim C. And thanks to Bob Partridge who also helped.
Yes, the scans confirm what the pheromones already told the happy couple. Sex on Cyeatea is mainly a recreational activity, but of course pregnancy does occur from time to time. Birth rates are low, but the local equivalent of social media puts expectant parents in touch with each other, and when the children are old enough the parents creche them together so they can socialize. These creche groups generally stay in touch for life.
What is the news on the artist? Hoping he's well.
Finally, a progress report. I'm pleased to be able to tell you that after a few setbacks Ed and I are hoping to get back to working on the comics in the next few weeks. Hang in there.
Awaiting anxiously for your return. :) How is everyone doing now?
Things are still moving... slowly... seem to be a few communication issues right now, hopefully temporary.
Hopefully those issues will resolve themselves shortly and content creation will flow anew.
Latest news: Ed is alive and well and on the move from California to Arizona. In his words, "Everything's up in the air, and no work is getting done. Hopefully things will all straightened out soon....."
Both of us have been working on ideas for the comics, so please bear with us.
If anyone's still reading, I'd like to wish them all a slightly belated Merry Christmas (or equivalent celebration of their choice) and a Happy New Year...
Overjoyed to hear that Ed's all right and still going... I've been fearing the worst after losing one or two too many old friends lately...wish him all the best if you're in contact with him & I hope everything works out for him.
Cheers, Bob.
Hiya Lee.
I keep seeing you over at Dragons and Silk and it reminds me to check here about you and Ed. I do hope Arizona is good for him, and that you two continue this fine comic. I've re-read it three times now, seriously exited for the day that the three of you return.
Thanks again for keeping us updated.
It has been a year and 10 days since the last comic post, hoping the creative team is doing well, particularly in this time of pestilence.
Or at least news from the creatives that they are still alive and relatively healthy.
Well, I'm still alive, but I've been sadly negligent in checking in on Ed. Mea culpa... I definitely need to get in touch with him and stop shilly-shallying, don't I?
hello....I still live....(might be good news...)
however,bad news...6 months ago I had my computer upgraded.I thought I saved all my files.....and discovered I had saved all the titles to the files....not the files. I lost everything. fortunately I have backups on most of it, although I will have to start from the beginning. but I lost EVERYTHING concerning "storm over whoomera" its gone. nothing remains except the pages on line. everything else is gone.there won't be any more....unless I want to start from the beginning.....which took 6 years to do.
Well, there was one unfinished page that didn't have the dialogue yet... but I'm really very sorry to hear about this. There seems to be a spate of bad luck going around, because one or two other comics have had data crashes recently. Sigh.
glad to see you Lee!I'm working now on re-building the resources to start Widow back up. but it will take a while.
Guess that's you, Ed. You got logged out. Anyhow, I'm glad to hear it and look forward to however long it'll take. After all, nobody's going anywhere much these days anyway!
We got to lows not seen since 1989 here in TX. I hope we didn't lose any readers or creative staff during the cold snap.
Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of my death and resurrection. If I can do that you guys can resurrect this comic.
...althiough having said that...
It now seems that Ed has lost ALL of the files from the somics, meaning there are no data sets for the creation of the characters or environments.
Well, I always said that if the worst came to the worst I'd attempt to finish "The Games we Play" as a prose story, hopefully with plot and dialogue assistance from Ed. Whatever happens, I do have the ending for it. It'll take a little while, though, because I really want to up my game as far as writing is concerned in order to do it justice.
The hopefully good news is that Ed is now working on a new story provisionally entitled "The Fifth Corner of the World", which will be an anthropomorphic crime caper set in a fictionalized Asia-Pacific region. With any luck you'll be seeing that here on ComicFury some time around next spring. Till then, take care of yourselves. Be seeing you.
Well, I never thought I'd be singing the praises of tech companies, BUT... thanks to Microsoft Edge and Google Lens it looks as if I'll be able to retrieve all of the text and images from Kishma Danelle's long-lost Danny's Journal pages, which flesh out much of the background to the original Dreamwalk Journal comic.
Many years ago I had the foresight to cache those pages, but they're in the form of .mht files, which only opened in Internet Explorer. Fortunately they also open in Edge. Some of the text on those pages wasn't copyable because it was in the form of images of text, and the font used wasn't amenable to OCR (optical character recognition) programs.
However, there's now Google Lens, which recently superseded Google Image Search. Lens includes a built-in OCR program, and when I tried the Danny's Journal pages on it, it not only worked, it was LETTER-PERFECT! Meaning I don't even have to edit the pages, except to correct a few original typos.
tl;dr In a few weeks, with Ed's permission, Danny's Journal could be back on line for the first time since the original site went down. Stay tuned.
Hopefully, but Ed and I have had trouble logging in recently, so I might need to open another CF site until we can get the issue sorted out.
Nice to see you around anyway. Hope you're keeping well.
How long does it take a predator to DD their prey?
Now that's a good question. I don't have a definitive answer from Ed, but my guess would be about an hour per session, during which time both predator and prey are experiencing powerful orgasms. For someone like a spider feeding on a fly, it'll take three or four deedee sessions, over the course of a couple of days, before they're full, which is why they have to take the prey to their lairs and feed them up again to replenish their juices.
Another good question. Obviously if capture was instantaneous it would be less of a challenge, so the predator has to sting their struggling prey several times before the paralytic takes effect. In the case of a spider, it usually takes three or four stings to render a fly-sized 'guest' helpless. Winged prey usually require a sting to the 'buzz knot' which contains the flight muscles in order to ground them.
This also applies to honeybees, but of course they have defensive stings of their own. If a honeybee gets lucky, they can paralyze a spider with five or six stings, although they'll take a few themselves in the process and the struggle could potentially end in a stalemate until one of them recovers enough to either escape or effect a capture.
Needless to say, though, the stings are also massively aphrodisiac as well as paralytic, so it's a hot struggle in more ways than one.
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