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Into the Smoke: Chapter 2 Cover
Cover art in tones of purple and gold. Blaze, an androgynous young man with shoulder-length red hair and a long, flowing green scarf, stands amid a sea of tall, lit candles. His tattooed hand illuminates and radiates light as he holds it up to the chest of Alastor, an angry, smoky ghost with dark hair and glowing white irises. In the background, Judd, a priest in a black shirt and Roman collar with slicked-back white hair and long sideburns, bows his head and clutches a string of rosary beads. Text reads: Into the Smoke. Chapter 2: The Angel Killer. Bob Appavu.
WE’RE BACK!!!
I hope you all had a good couple of months! If you didn’t already hear about my December surgery saga, you can read about it in my last blog post. I also talked about it on Tumblr. And Bluesky. And on the phone to the car insurance guy. Anyway, I had to cancel some hiatus extras and push things out a tiny bit, but now we’re back on track! Big huge thanks to all my patrons for helping to keep this project running! It makes such a big difference for ongoing, self-published indie passion projects like this one. Y’all are the best!!
Speaking of which, I have a new post on Patreon that goes through the start-to-finish process of making the chapter 2 cover! (If you’re early, you may need to wait approximately 3 minutes for it to go live.) It goes through every stage and includes lots of behind-the-scenes info about how I decide things like concept, shading, color, etc.
And just for you guys who are reading on the main site, have a couple detail shots:
One hiatus extra that did NOT get canceled is the Clybourn House short prose prequel! It’s in early access for Secret Gallery patrons, with 7 of 13 chapters posted. Since ITS is back to updating on Wednesdays, we’ll have the Clybourn House chapter 8 on Friday instead.
Spirit medium Blaze Laurent defies his priest partner Judd Abraham by using scandalous methods to negotiate a truce with the haunted Clybourn House’s eighteen angry ghosts.
Listen, you know Blaze. I bet you can guess what his scandalous methods are. 🙂
If you missed out on any of the other random things I posted during hiatus, you can get a comprehensive list in my Monthly Roundup posts! You can also subscribe to get it by email, along with new episode alerts.
We have a new reward for voting on Top Webcomics! It’s a process gif of the chapter 2 cover! Voting on Top Webcomics helps new readers find the comic, which is ESPECIALLY helpful after coming back from hiatus! And big thanks as always to Sam and bronakopdin in the Discord for posting their daily vote reminders!
Next Wednesday, we’ll have a chapter 1 recap! You’re all welcome to just reread chapter 1 – I hear it’s pretty good. XD But the recap will be there so you can refresh your memory without having to reread the equivalent of 70 pages. I also plan to release the full chapter 1 download on itch.io at that time.
The week after, we’ll have chapter 2, episode 1! I’ll also be passing around the old “add your name to the credits” form on Patreon for the next chunk of chapter 2 episodes, so watch for that!
Comic recs will also be returning in a couple weeks. In the meantime, you can check out my links page! It’s been updated with several new webcomics, and there will be more coming soon!
Anyway, I’m glad to be back!! Looking forward to seeing all of you too. What have you been up to? Did December treat you decently?
New Episodes Every Other Wednesday
