A lot of people who use the phpBB have this problem. It’s the spammer scanners that find your board then automate sign-up and posting random crap that supposedly is going to make them money somehow.

Anyway, I’ve had to take the sign up process and change it some – when someone signs up they need to write me an email as well. Basically, “Hi. I’m real. I’m not a spammer. I like (or hate) your comic.” . Then of course, tell me what your signed in name was and I can approve it then. Basically, I’ve had over 30 random crap names sign up for my forum access in the last 48 hours, and nearly all of them have names like “yuhtrefrgddee” or something. Gimme a break. That ain’t a person!

Anyway, sorry for the extra inconvenience! But it’ll make for a nicer playground!

Excelsior!

(If you’re gonna steal – steal from the best! )

edit: I’ve changed the captchka to be a lot harder to read… maybe the automations won’t get past it now…)

Yeah, I’m milking it. I admit it.

But I got a lot on my plate. The good news – in my “vacation” is that I am now two weeks ahead on the comics buffer that I have. And even cooler in my opinion, is that I’m not skimping on story. The first one posted today actually. I’m only going to call it “intermission” for now, and I’m producing it very differently from how I do the comic. I’ll let y’all figure it out and feel free to play on the forums and discuss it. Which brings up a small side note – not many people actually post in my forums and to be honest – a majority of the people who sign up appear to be Russian and Nigerian web entrepreneurs (aka viagra scammers and spammers). But my forum settings seem to keep most of them from managing to actually automate their posts. In regards to this – there’s no harm in me leaving my forums up but then again – not that many people post there but I’d hate to take it down in case more want to, and because of the few who already do post. For now it’s staying – I’d just love to hear from more people is all I guess I’m saying.

In other news, Cross is a full green light. We are sending out contracts to our big actors, one of whom can be seen in the actual teaser trailer we made so I feel safe mentioning his name: Brian Austin Green. We have a few others, and I’ll mention the ever talented Jake Busey for now. I feel fairly confident we will have a fun movie for people to watch when we are finished. Props are getting made, designs are being done and guess what – you’re truly will be doing the storyboards.

Anyway, I look forward to getting back to the real story of Rain – but for now “Intermission” will keep you guys going – it’s definitely fun for me to write and make this new side story. It’s related – believe it or not. Ya know, cause, when I created Rain, I gave the universe she lives in a HUGE back story….

Til later folks!

Excelsior!
–Tanner

Vacation from the comic for a little bit. But I have stuff to post as I use this “free time” (believe me – I’m not on vacation from everything else I do… which includes job hunting, pimping my scripts, and working as a producer and writer on my upcoming movie “Cross”…) to try and get a little bit ahead on everything else I do. Hopefully, this kind of thin won’t be necessary too often and this is honestly the first time in 1.33 years that I have taken a legitimate break from doing Rain.

During this time I plan to do the following: get a day job, sell my scripts/get an agent, work for Disney, make my movie, and get WAY ahead on the writing of Rain and even hopefully create a buffer zone of pages for publication for chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12. There is also the pesky getting a real publisher plan for the book and increasing my artistic time on it from 6 hours a page (pencils inks colors) to 12-16 hours per page (pencils inks and HIRING out a colorist).

I really like doing the quality level of the art that you saw on the cover of issue 8. And I would like to move toward that. But that’s impossible with just me working on it while committing to a day job and all that. But a publisher would make sense.

Anyway, I’m on vacation – I hope the oncoming random material is pleasing and interesting. Rain will return after a short break.