Welcome to JAWC v2.0, now on Hiatus for a few months... I don't really know how to put this, I mean, it's been a great run guys, it's been a freakin' blast to draw this comic and just have fun while doing it... I remember how the comic started, I remember getting frustrated over my initial cause being ignored... it was a harsh time where I tried too much too soon... and in doing so, I ended up abandoning that course and started something wonderful... I finally sat down and started to seriously write and draw for one person... me. It wasn't that long into my comic that I stopped that donation idea, but overall it taught me that if you want to draw a webcomic, or any comic for that matter, it's best to just draw for yourself and just you... it's at the point where you try to appeal to others and find yourself not caring about your own opinion that you start to degenerate into a pathetic waste of comic space... also if you rely just on making money off of your comic, I can almost guarantee that you comic will fail because you're going into it for all the wrong reasons. Anyhow, I shouldn't be talking about the start of JAWC... rather I should be speaking about the hiatus... I would say end, but it's not the end for JAWC, not by a longshot, after all, what kind of ending would this have been?... a cliffhanger?... geez... that sucks... if anything I'm leaving this like this for impact and dramatic effect. Nothing brings back viewers after a season finale than a cliffhanger... it's been done on scrubs, wit J.D. finding out his girlfriend is pregnant, it happened on House M.D with House going into surgery with his life on the line and a possibility of his leg being healed... but at the loss of his mental faculties and in How I Met Your Mother where Marshall is sitting with the wedding ring in his hand, just as Ted and Robin get together... I know I'll be back watching those shows when they come back... granted I'll hopefully have a net connection at that time to download them as I prolly won't have a TV... -_-;; JAWC is officially on hiatus now... I find that putting the comic on hold is for the best... hopefully people will come back every now and then to check to see if I came back... and it's not like I can make a big deal about my return... I don't even know if I have a fanbase... sure I know people read it, but I don't have the popularity that others have... so I don't suppose I'll ever know... heh, go fig, eh?... Popularity is a funny thing... I like the concept of my comic picking up and people liking it so much that they tell more people and so on and so forth, however I've seen the territory that goes with it, and I also like NOT being popular... it has perks being low-key, I stay under the radar, and I'm able to draw what I want without people bugging me endlessly with conspiracy theories, and odd slash fiction and horrible horrible porn ideas with my characters... -_-;; not that anyone in their right mind would even have these thoughts about web comic characters ^^;;;; Anyhow.. what was I originally talking about... oh yeah, the comic going on hiatus... I suppose I should go ahead and give a reason why... it's good and all that I go off on a tangeant however you're prolly wondering what the hell I'm talking about with hiatus' and what not... why not keep the comic going while at AC... and well the answer is pretty straightfoward... although it's a verbose and roundabout kind of way to get to the reason... here goes nothin'... I'm moving. That's right, I'll let it sink in for a few seconds... Allright, now to explain more, since you've gotten the basic idea of it... After AnthroCon I plan on moving out towards the western part of the United States... I'm leaving the east coast and moving to a place where it'll be even more difficult to get to AnthroCon and less difficult for ConiFur... which oddly enough is cancelled for the year 2006... go fig, eh, guess I can save the money I would've spent on that trip to getting to AnthroCon in 2007... so hopefully I'll be there then with a new portfolio, that I won't wait until the last minute to work on... wait... that wasn't the point... back on track!... anyhow, I plan on moving out west and I won't have an internet connection for a while... or my computers... or my scanner... or.. well.. I won't have anything... The only things I'll have is the things I bring to AnthroCon this year, and hopefully I'll make enough there to make it easier on my out there... I leave Wednesday Morning at around 6am... get to Penn Station by 8am, then it's AmTrak at 9am and a 9 hour Train ride to the con which I'll arrive at 7pm and I'll take a taxi or brave the traffic and get to the hotel... and from there... it's up in the air... Just groove out with a lot of cool people, and have fun with my friends... I look foward to the Con... And don't get me wrong, I'm not about to think it's all gonna be gummy bears and gumdrops, no... it's gonna be hell living out on my own... away from all the luxuries and conveniences I have here that I take for granted... I really don't want to leave... however I have to... no, I'm not being forced... this is something I have to do in order to find out who I am as a person... I think it's one of the main reasons I don't have a lot to say to some people... I just don't have that life experience, and who's gonna listen to some naive kid about anything when they haven't lived on there own... had a life to call there own and suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune... I just hope that when I do leave, I can make it on my own, I can climb my mountain and see if it was worth the climb... to look down that crag and sneer, then raise my head and shout to the skies above... "I finally did it... I can make it, I can take it, and I can survive it!" or alternately rely on an old favorite that went wayside a long time ago... "I'm hot, I'm Cool, I can WIN!"... heh.. not as dramatic, but fun to say nonetheless... Anyhow, I'm bidding all who read this a fond farewell, and I hope that you'll come back and read jawc when it resumes hopefully in two months... hopefully it'll resume in less time... but eh, it's best to have ideals that are reasonable... so take care everyone... I'll see you later... - Tiki Man