Here Endeth Book 3
With the conclusion of Whiskey Bend comes good news and bad news. The bad news is Next Town Over proper — that is to say, the story of Mr. Hunter and Ms. Black — won’t be continuing next week, or in fact for two months. My buffer is so eroded by recent commitments that I’ve decided it needs rebuilding before I jump into posting book 4, which I’ve currently only got a handful of pages done on. The good news is you can still come here weekly for a western yarn: I’ll be running the 8-page short, SNAKE, from last year’s NOBODIES anthology, in NTO’s place. Thematically it should dovetail in right nice. I hope you’ll stick around and enjoy it: I’d hate for a break in the mainline story to scare you folks off, but I figure it’s better to sneak the intermission in here, between chapters, than mid-book somewhere when my diminished buffer inevitably runs out. With any luck this’ll allow me to get properly back on top of things and I can offer the completed #4 for sale much sooner than I was able to with #3.
Thanks for your patience and support!
Fondly,
The Management
Seems like a very clean way to keep things on track. I’m very much looking forward to this. 🙂
Glad to hear it! I’m relieved you guys understand.
It’s also very pretty and cool, so bring it on!
A planned intermission is preferable to a sudden hiatus when your buffer collapses.
Thanks, thats an awesome way of dealing with a shrinking buffer.
Thanks so much for understanding, Jef!
Just want you to know I was gushing about your lovely work at a jewelry class on Thursday and I am more than happen to wait for you. I think this is a stellar web comic/graphic novel and deserves all the time you need to give it.
Thanks so much — for the kind words and the word of mouth! 🙂
d’oh –HAPPY, and it still applies!
You definitely do amazing work, I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
Very much obliged for the kind words!
Aww, will miss this! Thanks for all your hard work & can’t wait for the next! Good luck with the other commitments 🙂
Well as I said, there’ll still be a western posted here weekly to tide you over. Thank you so much!
Also, is the donation button broken? It just takes me to a blank page D:
Hmmm. It’s working fine for me and I can’t find anything wrong with it. You’re not getting any errors or anything?
The server itself has had a rough couple of days; this might be related. Possibly it’ll work if you try it again. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the attempted generosity! 😀
Tried it on IE and Firefox, something about the InkOutbreak frame that’s messin’ with it. I just ordered the hard copies of the comic from IndyPlanet instead 🙂 It’ll be easier to get friends to read it that way too! 😉
navigate to https://www.nexttownover.net/ and then try. You should change any bookmarks or rss links that you have as well. For future reference, when you are looking at a site through ink out, you should right click on the home link and open in a new tab. This will take you to the real site and not the ink out portal.
Do you have any plans on printing? I really like the art and the story.
I just saw the link to indi planet and will be buying it soon.
+1
But I expect my dose of NTO filled with guns, magic, steam and burned next town over :P.
It is and it will remain one of my favorite comics due to beautiful art (god I wish I could draw like that; would make my game design so much easier), well shaped characters (would make even Legolas cry) and nonetheless a mysterious and well defined story (J.R.R Tolkien would’ve approved of this).
Again, I await your glorious return of this NTO quality material as well as a creative buffer overflow from your side.
P.S. Mr. Hunter is now a very effective and deadly Warlock character, of the Infernal Pact, in my D&D Campaign. Players love him already ! :))
Whoa. That’s exceedingly kind of you — thanks so much!
And it’s crazy/flattering how NTO seems to have infiltrated a lot of folks’ tabletop games.
Even the best of anime has filler from time to time.
Good web comics are no different.
Yours happens to be one of those =)
I hope you’ll stick around and enjoy it: I’d hate for a break in the mainline story to scare you folks off.
Your being modest right!? Earthquake garnished with pretty girls couldn’t drag me away.