Coming Back
on January 28, 2019
at 12:11 am
Quite a few of you expressed disappointment at the idea of the longer grimoire stories not having regular updates, so starting this week, on February 1st, they will return on Fridays. This means the new shorts will update Monday through Thursday. Thanks for reading and for all of your support!
Excellent — very good to hear !
May I ask — what time do you intend to post the updates? (and time zone?)
The reason I ask is that in the past you said you updated on Mondays and Thursdays, but even if I looked at the site very late on Monday and Thursday, I probably didn’t see the update until sometime Tuesday and Friday. I just want to know if you post early in the day or late in the day or when?
(For what it’s worth — I myself start to look for new updates on other strips starting at midnight (yes, I’m frequently up late), but I see the various strips actually update at various times from midnight to 4AM (eastern) I don’t know how you update, but many artists have a buffer (a few days to a few weeks) of strips on the side somewhere, and some automatic process publishes the new strip at a specific time overnight so it happens regularly, and the artist doesn’t have to be up late. Or, if you post to Patreon hours before you post in general — maybe I’ll look there first.)
The page for the Shorts does allow me to schedule a post in advance, so that they can go up right at 12am Pacific time for their day. Which is one of the things that I’ve been excited about with this series. The page where the grimoires go, however, forces me to do each post by hand, and you’re right it usually was on the later end of things. My goal this time around is to get them up on Friday by 2am Pacific time, so that it will be there Friday morning for most folks.
2am pacific is 5AM eastern — yes, that would be fine. Most excellent.
May I humbly suggest that you create a slightly static “Grimoire Index” page, where you list the “titles” of each chapter, and a link to the start of each series? If I happen to want to go back to a particular story, it’s hard searching nearly 900 pages to find a particular story. Thanks muchly for your consideration.
I’m enjoying the shorts Ben, but you can include me in the camp that’s very happy to hear that the grimoires will be continuing as well!
Very good to hear indeed. And yes, the Grimoire could use some archive index.
I don’t mind the shorts, but I doubt they’d keep me coming back to see what was happening this week. They’re basically a splash of cheesecake with an equally cheesy pun; nothing wrong with that, but I can think of a few similar pages that I’ve enjoyed beifly and then forgotten about.
That said, I wouldn’t mind the occasional “shorts week” in between story arcs. If you need to take a break and recharge a little, they could be a good filler material.
I like the shorts, and I can see a good reason for them, let’s us enjoy the humour of Devilbear while giving Ben more time to deal with real life and work on future Grimoire stories.
I’ve been enjoying the shorts. They’re clever and mostly feature one of the girls. So – my favorite part! Thanks for all the effort these obviously take…