I'm heading over to have dinner with family in an hour, so no stream tonight. I'm going to finish up the shading for this comic in a little bit.

I think the issue I've had is that I'm at a point in my comic where I need to stop creating new backstory, and start using the old backstory I've already created and work it into the comic. Of course, everyone only knows my comic as "that office comic" or "that jellybean comic", so they have no idea how much everything is blocked out. It turns out, all the exposition I put out in pages 52-64 did was confuse and annoy people.

What confuses and annoys me, of course, is that everything I love about this comic comes in phase 2 or phase 3, and nobody shares that feeling I've had for years. Obviously that means I should try to finish this intermission as fast as possible...

I know how the intermission will end. I could simply end it with a 7th page. But should I add an 8th page to introduce a villain who won't appear until phase 3, God knows how many years in the real-world future when I get to it? It would also introduce a new kind of animal to the world...

Christmas vacation begins on the 21st for me. I'll have time for one more page. But it's been 123 days since the last page. Everyone can wait another 3 weeks for a final intermission page.