Ha HA! I knew mama dragon would tip the fight. Gorslash can’t focus on just one thing. He has to control everything. and it always bites him in the butt. Or in this case; blasts him in the chest and a fall to the ground…
At the quote at the bottom right, I’m actually reminded of a V:tM campaign book about a group of Iconuu searching for Golconda. One of the tale boxes had a fable about a Man walking beside a Dragon leashed with but a thin gold chain. When a passerby asked the man about it and not something stronger, the man responded along the lines of, “If the Dragon goes wild, how would a steel chain serve me any better?”
Very true, and it rarely ends well for the holder as well. Gorslash may very well be shaked-n-baked before he knows it. And as far as his “boss” goes, he won’t enjoy facing him again.
It’s a bad time in my country.
I’m generally okay, and a lot better than those who are not CIS-gendered straight white men, but I always consider myself an ally to those that ain’t. Been going through some minor health issues and other things. I also am in the middle of one of our local theatrical productions. It might not surprise Zona’s long-time fans that this is my adaptation of PG Wodehouse’s “Jeeves Takes Charge”, and that in this play, we have swapped the genders of Bertie and Jeeves to female. (Mostly, if I’m being honest, because my best actors are women, and we have more women in our little company than men. Eh. This is what often happens at our level.) Hoping it’s funny. Hoping people get the feminist message.
Thanks for caring.
Working on the new page, hope it’s up soon.
Good luck with the production, with your health, and with the political woes. The last will come to an end, gradually… we can very slowly see people wising up as 47’s approval ratings fall. Maybe with the midterms in two years there will be some actual brakes on his power to cause chaos and foul up the global economy etc.
My friends,
Many thanks for your concern.
I’m fine and our production was delayed a couple weeks due to insurmountable not-being-ready-ness. It should be over by the middle of May. Regular updates should begin by the 21st of May.
Important:
For over 20 years I have kept this space non-political, but this is the worst time I have ever lived to see in my 60-plus years. My country is in the midst of a fascist takeover that threatens American democracy itself. I can no longer stay silent or neutral, and neither can Zona. If you’ve been with us for awhile, you see that the characters and the story is unashamedly pro-feminist, pro gay rights and pro trans rights. (as imperfectly as an old fart who is none of those things himself can represent, anyway)
I also was raised to know our history and to learn from it. My first ancestor on these shores was an indentured servant who landed in New England in 1665. That means, of course, that when he got here there were already enslaved Africans and a continent full of First Nations people who’d made their homes and civilizations for millennia. There is a movement in the current administration to minimize that and rewrite history, creating a white Christian nationalist fantasy as the official narrative in government and education, making sure the coming generations can be indoctrinated in lies, ala “1984.”
The administration is also pushing to use the military against civilians exercising their Constitutional rights, intimidate the judicial branch and the legal profession and terrorize average citizens with illegal detainment and arrest and trafficking to third world concentration camps.
I remember vividly that on the wall of my father’s office, both at his store and at home, was a quote by Edmund Burke,
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,”
Like many things my Dad taught me, he not only said this but modeled it in his behavior, being a local champion for the marginalized POC in San Bernardino. So, as one might imagine, I take these words and sentiment to heart when evil rears its face so blatantly and unashamedly in the USA. My wife and I regularly are marching in pro-democracy demonstrations, as we will tomorrow for May 1, and any other demonstration we can join.
So from time to time “Zona” may also be a platform for me to speak out. If this is too “woke” for you, if you find it distasteful and you disagree with what I am saying, I invite you to cancel your Patreon pledge, remove Zona from your bookmarks and don’t give me the clicks.
Don’t expect me to keep any disrespectful or insulting comments on these pages. Also, don’t expect me to dignify Russian propaganda by leaving it here.
Warmest regards,
JED
Well said, while I am 65 and the “woke” group in the USA come off with some pretty crazy behavure, I have nothing against LBGTQ+, in fact we were close friends with a lesbian married couple and I helped one reconcile with her father. Seems he was retired military and wasn’t having her choices. I strongly feel that everyone has the right to hold their opinions and to voice them when needed, however, there has been WAY too many that are trying to force their opinions onto those that disagree. To the point of legal and social actions. No one has the right to force anyone to agree to those, or force young children to accept them only because they are told to.
I recently read a thoughtful oped that pointed out that the current administration is using tactics very similar to facist regime takeovers of the early 20th century: overwhelm the population until they give up … there’s no way to fight everything they’re doing. And that’s absolutely correct. This oped then made the point: stop trying to fight it all – pick one thing dearest to you and fight for that. Having four queer kids I am concentrating on LGBTQ+ rights. My wife is very active in opposing library closures and book bans. If we fight this way, together we can successfully oppose the tyranny threatening our nation.
JED,
Thank you for the update.
I have very much appreciated reading your work.
I look forward to seeing what will happen in Zona in the future, in whatever form your choose to take.
From what I have seen as an Australian looking on from the other side of the world the US is not in a good way at the moment. I hope that sanity can prevail and that the current situation will become only a short term set back.
Keep fighting the good fight and continue to be honest to your beliefs.
I suggest you google it. Specifically, the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If even one person has no due process, then none of us do.
And Trump has made no secret of his intention to use the Insurrection Act to deploy US military to put down legal protests. There are, fortunately, many lawsuits pending regarding this and many other illegal acts, but given that this administration literally laughs off and ignores a 9-0 SCOTUS decision to return Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoreno max prison where he was illegally deported, I am not really all that hopeful that he won’t be encouraged to continue his lawless behavior, and we are just weeks or months away from our own tiananmen square massacre. Are you not paying attention at all? This is a guy who, this week in a high profile interview, would not confirm that it is his job to uphold the Constitution. “I don’t know …” he said in response to the question.
If your handle indicates that there is military service in your CV, then you also took that oath. I assume that, if you did take the oath, then it means something to you. It means nothing to the criminal who is squatting in the White House.
This is a guy whose word is worthless, who is an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon. He is a threat to everything I hold sacred. I would like to remind you that all the good people who looked the other way and didn’t get involved paved the way for authoritarians throughout history.
I’ll assume that you do not live in the USA, so allow me to explain.
Trump claimed that Venezuela had declared war on us by sending members of one of their gangs (by the name MS13) to infiltrate and attack us. In doing so, he used a wartime power to corral and export any person he deems as a member of said gang, using the most flimsiest of “evidence” (example: You have a tattoo? You’re a member. Away you go!). He would then then send these people to El Salvador into… well. concentration camps would be to put it lightly. And these people are being sent there with zero due process, which means even if you’re an innocent caught up in the dragnet, you’re still getting shipped off.
Having spent 28 of the best years of my life serving in the U.S. military, I am rather hopeful that there will be stiff push back should the Commander in Chief give some of the illegal and unethical orders being discussed here. Keep in mind, the men and women holding flag rank joined the service during the 1990s and did indeed take a serious oath to defend the Constitution and to stand firm in opposition to any illegal or unethical order. This is the reason Hegseth is trying to purge many general and flag officers. From what I hear, he’s having a hard time finding the type of senior rank officers he wants. The Trump administration is clumsily – almost randomly – trying to upend traditional American institutions. But the military seems to vex them. “And that is an encouraging thought.”
Although my political views don’t align with yours (to put it mildly), I certainly respect your right to express them.
I also look forward to enjoying new pages soon! I have enjoyed your storytelling, character development and artwork since the beginning. Thanks for the status update.
Glad to hear you’re speaking out and marching. As a European what is happening in the USA right now is scary; we do remember the history of the early 20th century.
Any military personel commander with sense? Fired. The lady in charge of Pituffik Space Base was removed right after she wrote an email to all personel (US and other) and assured them they were dedicated to the partnership they’ve had for years.
Doubt this makes it to post but here goes. Once upon a time we as a people, knew the meaning of “a time and place”, and didn’t feel the need to air our views randomly to strangers without being asked. I’m not dismissing your concerns even though I don’t agree with many of them, but I am saying there is a time and place. I come here for some entertainment and in a sense to escape reality and the troubles of this world, not to be reminded of them. Perhaps a separate forum would have been more appropriate but as I said these days people just feel the need to sometimes over share. It is like when someone walks up to me and introduces themselves and makes an unnecessary point to mention their sexual orientation or political views as part of their introduction. It happens, trust me. To me it is not something I needed to know unless I asked. I don’t walk up to folks and introduce myself and my political affiliation, sexual orientation, or religious denomination. All those are things that have a time and place to be discussed. Anyway thanks for all the entertainment. I think I will step away. Don’t feel bad you aren’t the first person to go off in your comments section about all this and I stopped going to those other pages as well. I truly do wish you all the best.
I totally agree with you JED. As an elder transwoman let me say thank you. Being in the trenches so to speak here in a deeply MAGA state it get very tiring having to constantly fight to help protect the safety and rights of all the LGBT folk here. Your support help to give me a little bit more hope in our country.
It is such a privilege for anyone to think they can live their life as if politics does not affect them. Politics is personal when they are using it to personally hurt as many people as they can. People are dying. People’s lives are being destroyed. Important parts of our society that we agreed on that we put in place, are now being dismantled with no oversight, no due process. And only because – actually, I’m not sure why anymore. The cruelty is the point. Anyone who says “stay in your Lane” when you express dismay or fear or action against any of it, I think has made lack of compassion and fear such a part of their personality They don’t dare step back and look at anything, much less how it’s affecting them. Thank you for your gift to us of this work, thank you for using your platform to speak up. You don’t owe anybody anything and I just appreciate you.
As many could have predicted, today’s Sexy Saturday involves our two lovely priestesses of the Sun and The Moon, respectively.
To see the rest, just visit Patreon.com/JEDraft. Hop
For no reason I can find, and none that Godaddy can find, it’s impossible for me to post a new comic at barbarian princess Dot Com using my theme Toocheke without getting 503 ERROR. I have added nothing, done nothing in the past month or longer that would cause this. I think the demons from the Deeps have done something nefarious. Until I fix it or redo the entire site using another plugin (again) I will be posting the update in FaceBook.
I owe you all many apologies, and many updates, but we’re finally truly back in the saddle. I am so very grateful for your loyalty and patience, and I won’t bore you with all the details of the heart problems (now completely symptom-free) and the neck stuff and the lung infection (fine at last ) and Jeebus everything in my little old body that seemed determined to break down all at freaking once. I’m back to splitting logs and exercising and all the good, healthy stuff – and, of course, working on Zona!
So here we go! Yes, the dragon tried a flame-strafe and yes, flying top cover Tula was able to shield the frontline of the cavalry and now it appears some kind of hawk has taken a decided dislike to our urtt rider. Imagine that.
More as soon as I can get it finish rendering and doing the magic. Warmest regards,
Hi kids! There was a delay in updates, and I think you ought to know why.
Didja ever want to know what an actual heart attack feels like? Well, with any luck you never will. I, on the other hand, know exactly what it feels like. It’s not like Aunt May clutching her heart and collapsing. It was more like the worst acid reflux you can think of for about 24 hours straight. Went to the doc, and to make a long story short, anyone can have clogged arteries under the right conditions – even me!
This was about a week and a half ago, and yeah, I spent a couple of miserable nights in hospital where they kindly opened my artery and put a nifty little mesh tube in there to keep it open. Did I ever wish there was some kind of wormhole and Tula could come use Erogenian Magick to heal things quicker. Hospital sucks.
Otherwise, I am fine, and looking forward to eventually splitting logs again and doing other macho stuff around home, just like before. But, as I write this I need lots of rest and can’t lift anything heavier than ten pounds. (That means I have to put my little dog or my cat on the scale before I heft them, just to be sure. )
But I am now well on the mend, and look forward to making regular updates – or even more to make up for the lost time.
Soooo – I know the comic is a bit late, but I have not been idle. Nor has Brian. We are now really, truly and officially out of preproduction. The hernia was to transition all the assets, including out titular heroine, into Unreal Engine 5. It was a seemingly Sisyphean task, involving lots or frustration, hard hard work for my dauntless perfectionist animator and some creative innovations to solve the problems that they can absolutely take complete credit for solving.
We are now in production and animating scenes for the final trailer in UE5. Well, why did we go to UE5 in the first place? If you look at this picture, maybe you’ll understand. It’s representative of what you will be seeing on screen, and this is just one frame. UE will show you 60-120 fps of THIS in real time.
I’m extremely pleased. This is much much more than I thought I wanted. She’s going to live, breathe and act out the story in the world we’ve created.
Naturally, if you want to see more, then go to Patreon.com/ JEDraft
Our ongoing incompatibility issues with the new WordPress are still not worked out, and I am afraid I might have to just redo the whole site again, but until I absolutely have to do that, I have this kludgy workaround.
See at the top menu on the right, “, I have converted the entire history of the web comic into a series of yeary PDF files that any one can download.
It’s not elegant, kind of a brute force workaround, but at least you all now can really start at the beginning and read the whole thing at your leisure.
Many thanks for your patience, and with hopes of a permanent solution in the near future.
In this, the final version we’re doing of this proof-of-concept video, Brian put in more fancy stuff and fixes and attention to wonderful details. Now we dive into production of the actual product, beginning a trailer for the series itself with all the new elements and knowledge we have put together so far.
This is the proof of concept for Zona in action. Brian’s solved a truckload of challenges and details with the hair and cloth simulations, animation and incorporating it all in the impressive realism of Unreal Engine. I put the music in … 🙂
We are moving from California to Connecticut, and we’re driving with the dogs and cat and so for the next couple of weeks the updates are going to be sporadic, and communication with you all might drop out. Never fear, we will return as surely as the sun rises and sets on our VW camper van. Still, I might have a little surprise for you Thursday or Friday. Stay tuned! Warmest regards, -JED
33 thoughts on “SMACK! – Page 1318”
E Hines
Unchain my heart, unchain my dragon, it’s all the same in the end.
Eric Hines
Kiddeagle
Cry ‘Havoc and Let Slip The Dragons of War!
Scarsdale
Ha HA! I knew mama dragon would tip the fight. Gorslash can’t focus on just one thing. He has to control everything. and it always bites him in the butt. Or in this case; blasts him in the chest and a fall to the ground…
Lora
I have no doubt Gorshash will use his magick to make sure he survives the fall, but the dragons won’t be on his side anymore … 8)
Also, did Liri’s two guides get left behind or did they also get a ride on the dragon?
Freelance
At the quote at the bottom right, I’m actually reminded of a V:tM campaign book about a group of Iconuu searching for Golconda. One of the tale boxes had a fable about a Man walking beside a Dragon leashed with but a thin gold chain. When a passerby asked the man about it and not something stronger, the man responded along the lines of, “If the Dragon goes wild, how would a steel chain serve me any better?”
DMC_Run
Re: the tag at bottom-right…
A stupid dragon fights the CHAIN…
A smart dragon fights the HOLDER of the chain.
Scarsdale
Very true, and it rarely ends well for the holder as well. Gorslash may very well be shaked-n-baked before he knows it. And as far as his “boss” goes, he won’t enjoy facing him again.
George Phillies
A smarter Tula finishes off Gorshash rather than talking about it. Unless momma dragon has a little snack on the way down.
Kiddeagle
You OK JED? Haven’t heard from you in awhile. you usually reply to comments.
jedraft
It’s a bad time in my country.
I’m generally okay, and a lot better than those who are not CIS-gendered straight white men, but I always consider myself an ally to those that ain’t. Been going through some minor health issues and other things. I also am in the middle of one of our local theatrical productions. It might not surprise Zona’s long-time fans that this is my adaptation of PG Wodehouse’s “Jeeves Takes Charge”, and that in this play, we have swapped the genders of Bertie and Jeeves to female. (Mostly, if I’m being honest, because my best actors are women, and we have more women in our little company than men. Eh. This is what often happens at our level.) Hoping it’s funny. Hoping people get the feminist message.
Thanks for caring.
Working on the new page, hope it’s up soon.
Love and light to you all.
JED
Lora
Good to hear from you and best of luck with the production. 🙂
Paddy
Good luck with the production, with your health, and with the political woes. The last will come to an end, gradually… we can very slowly see people wising up as 47’s approval ratings fall. Maybe with the midterms in two years there will be some actual brakes on his power to cause chaos and foul up the global economy etc.
Da Amron
Break a leg or five man! hope its one hell of a production! (i havent done stage work regularly since early 90’s)
Kiddeagle
You still hanging in there? How’s the production going? Your allies in your country? all well I hope? Need us to slap the Cha straight on someone?
JE Draft
My friends,
Many thanks for your concern.
I’m fine and our production was delayed a couple weeks due to insurmountable not-being-ready-ness. It should be over by the middle of May. Regular updates should begin by the 21st of May.
Important:
For over 20 years I have kept this space non-political, but this is the worst time I have ever lived to see in my 60-plus years. My country is in the midst of a fascist takeover that threatens American democracy itself. I can no longer stay silent or neutral, and neither can Zona. If you’ve been with us for awhile, you see that the characters and the story is unashamedly pro-feminist, pro gay rights and pro trans rights. (as imperfectly as an old fart who is none of those things himself can represent, anyway)
I also was raised to know our history and to learn from it. My first ancestor on these shores was an indentured servant who landed in New England in 1665. That means, of course, that when he got here there were already enslaved Africans and a continent full of First Nations people who’d made their homes and civilizations for millennia. There is a movement in the current administration to minimize that and rewrite history, creating a white Christian nationalist fantasy as the official narrative in government and education, making sure the coming generations can be indoctrinated in lies, ala “1984.”
The administration is also pushing to use the military against civilians exercising their Constitutional rights, intimidate the judicial branch and the legal profession and terrorize average citizens with illegal detainment and arrest and trafficking to third world concentration camps.
I remember vividly that on the wall of my father’s office, both at his store and at home, was a quote by Edmund Burke,
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,”
Like many things my Dad taught me, he not only said this but modeled it in his behavior, being a local champion for the marginalized POC in San Bernardino. So, as one might imagine, I take these words and sentiment to heart when evil rears its face so blatantly and unashamedly in the USA. My wife and I regularly are marching in pro-democracy demonstrations, as we will tomorrow for May 1, and any other demonstration we can join.
So from time to time “Zona” may also be a platform for me to speak out. If this is too “woke” for you, if you find it distasteful and you disagree with what I am saying, I invite you to cancel your Patreon pledge, remove Zona from your bookmarks and don’t give me the clicks.
Don’t expect me to keep any disrespectful or insulting comments on these pages. Also, don’t expect me to dignify Russian propaganda by leaving it here.
Warmest regards,
JED
Scarsdale
Well said, while I am 65 and the “woke” group in the USA come off with some pretty crazy behavure, I have nothing against LBGTQ+, in fact we were close friends with a lesbian married couple and I helped one reconcile with her father. Seems he was retired military and wasn’t having her choices. I strongly feel that everyone has the right to hold their opinions and to voice them when needed, however, there has been WAY too many that are trying to force their opinions onto those that disagree. To the point of legal and social actions. No one has the right to force anyone to agree to those, or force young children to accept them only because they are told to.
Reservist
“to third world concentration camps”
What??? How?? Where??
ladyofthemasque
Well said, JED.
Honestly, if anyone did try to binch about your statements, your beliefs, & your stance…WTF webcomic have they been reading all this long while??
tony
Thanks, JED! Appreciate it.
Steve
I recently read a thoughtful oped that pointed out that the current administration is using tactics very similar to facist regime takeovers of the early 20th century: overwhelm the population until they give up … there’s no way to fight everything they’re doing. And that’s absolutely correct. This oped then made the point: stop trying to fight it all – pick one thing dearest to you and fight for that. Having four queer kids I am concentrating on LGBTQ+ rights. My wife is very active in opposing library closures and book bans. If we fight this way, together we can successfully oppose the tyranny threatening our nation.
Harold Hardy
Bravo.
Josh Edwards
JED,
Thank you for the update.
I have very much appreciated reading your work.
I look forward to seeing what will happen in Zona in the future, in whatever form your choose to take.
From what I have seen as an Australian looking on from the other side of the world the US is not in a good way at the moment. I hope that sanity can prevail and that the current situation will become only a short term set back.
Keep fighting the good fight and continue to be honest to your beliefs.
Reservist
“The administration is also pushing to use the military against civilians exercising their Constitutional rights”
What? There hasn’t been a American version of Tien An Men, so what did happen to make you so wary of how the US forces are deployed on US soil?
jedraft
I suggest you google it. Specifically, the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If even one person has no due process, then none of us do.
And Trump has made no secret of his intention to use the Insurrection Act to deploy US military to put down legal protests. There are, fortunately, many lawsuits pending regarding this and many other illegal acts, but given that this administration literally laughs off and ignores a 9-0 SCOTUS decision to return Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoreno max prison where he was illegally deported, I am not really all that hopeful that he won’t be encouraged to continue his lawless behavior, and we are just weeks or months away from our own tiananmen square massacre. Are you not paying attention at all? This is a guy who, this week in a high profile interview, would not confirm that it is his job to uphold the Constitution. “I don’t know …” he said in response to the question.
If your handle indicates that there is military service in your CV, then you also took that oath. I assume that, if you did take the oath, then it means something to you. It means nothing to the criminal who is squatting in the White House.
This is a guy whose word is worthless, who is an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon. He is a threat to everything I hold sacred. I would like to remind you that all the good people who looked the other way and didn’t get involved paved the way for authoritarians throughout history.
Freelance
I’ll assume that you do not live in the USA, so allow me to explain.
Trump claimed that Venezuela had declared war on us by sending members of one of their gangs (by the name MS13) to infiltrate and attack us. In doing so, he used a wartime power to corral and export any person he deems as a member of said gang, using the most flimsiest of “evidence” (example: You have a tattoo? You’re a member. Away you go!). He would then then send these people to El Salvador into… well. concentration camps would be to put it lightly. And these people are being sent there with zero due process, which means even if you’re an innocent caught up in the dragnet, you’re still getting shipped off.
Steve
Having spent 28 of the best years of my life serving in the U.S. military, I am rather hopeful that there will be stiff push back should the Commander in Chief give some of the illegal and unethical orders being discussed here. Keep in mind, the men and women holding flag rank joined the service during the 1990s and did indeed take a serious oath to defend the Constitution and to stand firm in opposition to any illegal or unethical order. This is the reason Hegseth is trying to purge many general and flag officers. From what I hear, he’s having a hard time finding the type of senior rank officers he wants. The Trump administration is clumsily – almost randomly – trying to upend traditional American institutions. But the military seems to vex them. “And that is an encouraging thought.”
Ravenwald
Although my political views don’t align with yours (to put it mildly), I certainly respect your right to express them.
I also look forward to enjoying new pages soon! I have enjoyed your storytelling, character development and artwork since the beginning. Thanks for the status update.
Lora
Glad to hear you’re speaking out and marching. As a European what is happening in the USA right now is scary; we do remember the history of the early 20th century.
Any military personel commander with sense? Fired. The lady in charge of Pituffik Space Base was removed right after she wrote an email to all personel (US and other) and assured them they were dedicated to the partnership they’ve had for years.
Don’t let them wear you down. Hugs.
Evervigilant
Doubt this makes it to post but here goes. Once upon a time we as a people, knew the meaning of “a time and place”, and didn’t feel the need to air our views randomly to strangers without being asked. I’m not dismissing your concerns even though I don’t agree with many of them, but I am saying there is a time and place. I come here for some entertainment and in a sense to escape reality and the troubles of this world, not to be reminded of them. Perhaps a separate forum would have been more appropriate but as I said these days people just feel the need to sometimes over share. It is like when someone walks up to me and introduces themselves and makes an unnecessary point to mention their sexual orientation or political views as part of their introduction. It happens, trust me. To me it is not something I needed to know unless I asked. I don’t walk up to folks and introduce myself and my political affiliation, sexual orientation, or religious denomination. All those are things that have a time and place to be discussed. Anyway thanks for all the entertainment. I think I will step away. Don’t feel bad you aren’t the first person to go off in your comments section about all this and I stopped going to those other pages as well. I truly do wish you all the best.
Rockin4Robin
I totally agree with you JED. As an elder transwoman let me say thank you. Being in the trenches so to speak here in a deeply MAGA state it get very tiring having to constantly fight to help protect the safety and rights of all the LGBT folk here. Your support help to give me a little bit more hope in our country.
Mary Lynne
It is such a privilege for anyone to think they can live their life as if politics does not affect them. Politics is personal when they are using it to personally hurt as many people as they can. People are dying. People’s lives are being destroyed. Important parts of our society that we agreed on that we put in place, are now being dismantled with no oversight, no due process. And only because – actually, I’m not sure why anymore. The cruelty is the point. Anyone who says “stay in your Lane” when you express dismay or fear or action against any of it, I think has made lack of compassion and fear such a part of their personality They don’t dare step back and look at anything, much less how it’s affecting them. Thank you for your gift to us of this work, thank you for using your platform to speak up. You don’t owe anybody anything and I just appreciate you.
Pam
Whooo hooo! Thank you JED! All the comments are awesome and bye-bye Evervigilant! Let’s all keep up the resistance!
Inquisitive Raven
El Salvador for sure. Libya, maybe. The Cheeto has definitely been talking about it.
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Things appear to be fixed.
Still not sure what actually went wrong. Looking forward to the report that WordPress Support will give me.
Patreon Update – Sexy Saturday
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Here We Go Again
Here we go again!
For no reason I can find, and none that Godaddy can find, it’s impossible for me to post a new comic at barbarian princess Dot Com using my theme Toocheke without getting 503 ERROR. I have added nothing, done nothing in the past month or longer that would cause this. I think the demons from the Deeps have done something nefarious. Until I fix it or redo the entire site using another plugin (again) I will be posting the update in FaceBook.
Warm regards,
JED
Finally!
Wow, it’s been a long time.
I owe you all many apologies, and many updates, but we’re finally truly back in the saddle. I am so very grateful for your loyalty and patience, and I won’t bore you with all the details of the heart problems (now completely symptom-free) and the neck stuff and the lung infection (fine at last ) and Jeebus everything in my little old body that seemed determined to break down all at freaking once. I’m back to splitting logs and exercising and all the good, healthy stuff – and, of course, working on Zona!
So here we go! Yes, the dragon tried a flame-strafe and yes, flying top cover Tula was able to shield the frontline of the cavalry and now it appears some kind of hawk has taken a decided dislike to our urtt rider. Imagine that.
More as soon as I can get it finish rendering and doing the magic.
Warmest regards,
JED
A Minor Inconvenience …
Hi kids! There was a delay in updates, and I think you ought to know why.
Didja ever want to know what an actual heart attack feels like? Well, with any luck you never will. I, on the other hand, know exactly what it feels like. It’s not like Aunt May clutching her heart and collapsing. It was more like the worst acid reflux you can think of for about 24 hours straight. Went to the doc, and to make a long story short, anyone can have clogged arteries under the right conditions – even me!
This was about a week and a half ago, and yeah, I spent a couple of miserable nights in hospital where they kindly opened my artery and put a nifty little mesh tube in there to keep it open. Did I ever wish there was some kind of wormhole and Tula could come use Erogenian Magick to heal things quicker. Hospital sucks.
Otherwise, I am fine, and looking forward to eventually splitting logs again and doing other macho stuff around home, just like before. But, as I write this I need lots of rest and can’t lift anything heavier than ten pounds. (That means I have to put my little dog or my cat on the scale before I heft them, just to be sure. )
But I am now well on the mend, and look forward to making regular updates – or even more to make up for the lost time.
Warmest regards,
JED
Zona in Unreal Engine 5
Soooo – I know the comic is a bit late, but I have not been idle. Nor has Brian. We are now really, truly and officially out of preproduction. The hernia was to transition all the assets, including out titular heroine, into Unreal Engine 5. It was a seemingly Sisyphean task, involving lots or frustration, hard hard work for my dauntless perfectionist animator and some creative innovations to solve the problems that they can absolutely take complete credit for solving.
We are now in production and animating scenes for the final trailer in UE5. Well, why did we go to UE5 in the first place? If you look at this picture, maybe you’ll understand. It’s representative of what you will be seeing on screen, and this is just one frame. UE will show you 60-120 fps of THIS in real time.
I’m extremely pleased. This is much much more than I thought I wanted. She’s going to live, breathe and act out the story in the world we’ve created.
Naturally, if you want to see more, then go to Patreon.com/ JEDraft
Warmest regards,
JED
NEW PDF ARCHIVE
Our ongoing incompatibility issues with the new WordPress are still not worked out, and I am afraid I might have to just redo the whole site again, but until I absolutely have to do that, I have this kludgy workaround.
VDSD – 2021 (barbarianprincess.com)
See at the top menu on the right, “, I have converted the entire history of the web comic into a series of yeary PDF files that any one can download.
It’s not elegant, kind of a brute force workaround, but at least you all now can really start at the beginning and read the whole thing at your leisure.
Many thanks for your patience, and with hopes of a permanent solution in the near future.
Warmest regards,
JED
Zona Animation: Morning Exercises V2
In this, the final version we’re doing of this proof-of-concept video, Brian put in more fancy stuff and fixes and attention to wonderful details. Now we dive into production of the actual product, beginning a trailer for the series itself with all the new elements and knowledge we have put together so far.
Rubbing my hands with glee.
Warm regards,
-JED
Zona Animation: Morning Exercises
This is the proof of concept for Zona in action. Brian’s solved a truckload of challenges and details with the hair and cloth simulations, animation and incorporating it all in the impressive realism of Unreal Engine.
I put the music in … 🙂
We’re On The Road!
We are moving from California to Connecticut, and we’re driving with the dogs and cat and so for the next couple of weeks the updates are going to be sporadic, and communication with you all might drop out. Never fear, we will return as surely as the sun rises and sets on our VW camper van. Still, I might have a little surprise for you Thursday or Friday. Stay tuned!
Warmest regards,
-JED
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