Hey there, everybody! Happy to be here to provide you a new content update! To start things off, if you haven’t seen it yet, pictured is the key visual for RAW: Ludovica!

While I’m relatively sure this update will be visible on the website shortly after it goes up on Kickstarter, I certainly hope I’ve got everything lined up properly!

While WordPress is pretty intuitive, especially compared to GoDaddy’s website builder, there’s some more advanced steps that I haven’t quite got the hang of yet. Still, I’ve worked around worse before, everything should pan out just fine!

Today’s update is more meant to get this new line of content on the site up and rolling, and to talk a little more about our plans for issue two moving forward.

Kay C. and I are steadily continuing to grind away at the storyboarding process, but after that, we’ll be back into dedicated page creation again. Once we’re able to move on to that step and hopefully after Ludovica is finished, I’ll be taking on a part time job to keep us rolling while Kay chips away at the already-complete issue script.

While it’s disheartening that we won’t be able to print our first physical batch soon, we’re taking heart in the fact that this setback could mean a better-prepared and more successful printing run in the future. In that vein, we’ll be trying to make issue two as best as it can possibly be, so that more people will be drawn into this weird adventure we’re trying to take them on! As mentioned in the previous Kickstarter update, we’re hoping if the crowdfunding effort fails that it only means a delay in the comic creation process.

In other news, I’ve been getting a bit more work done on Ludovica where able, along with revisiting some Cormac McCarthy novels in my spare time. I can only hope my stories one day compare to the level of experience that man brings to the page! It’s absolutely ridiculous to me just how entrancing his prose can be to read through.

I was brought back into reading his works because of a recent Wendigoon video on Blood Meridian, perhaps one of the darkest wild west stories ever put to paper. Since Blood Meridian is my favorite story from McCarthy, I figure I can use this opportunity in a news update to encourage people to read it themselves if they have the chance and the stomach for it. Most of McCarthy’s books are hard reads, but especially Blood Meridian. Still, there’s definitely a reason why he’s considered one of the greatest American authors of our time.

Kay and I have gotten a lot of mileage out of discussing the themes in both Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men in the past few days, and it’s been some very stimulating conversation. Highly recommended!

Since there’s not a lot else to mention on the comic front today, I think I’ll also mention something that fans of weird fiction should look into in the next week or so: the new Ari Aster film Beau is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix. Ari Aster has made some truly interesting horror works in the few movies currently in his filmography, and Beau is Afraid looks to be another absolute banger. Kay C. and I are always fans of wild and surreal ideas stretched into feature length films, and we’ve been very excited for the debut of this one. Give it a look if you get the chance!

But, on that note, I think that’s about all I’ve got lined up for you all today. Hopefully you can all see this on the website, and hopefully I can get future website updates up without too much trouble! We hope you all have a great day, and we’ll see you all again on Friday!

• Seb