The writing puzzle I had to solve for this page was “how does Cass, who can only bleat, communicate a complicated plan of action to Flint?” It turns out goat stubbornness and a good old-fashioned head butt do wonders.
I’m pretty sure goat legs can’t bend that way, but I claim artistic license.
UTC will resume updating, now on Wednesdays, starting May 31. I don’t anticipate needing to take any more breaks for the rest of this chapter, but I won’t guarantee that since summer is starting up and things in my life are getting quite active.
Thank you for bearing with me!
Video commentary for “Double Date” is now up! This one was delayed a while because I wanted to discuss plot points about future chapters, as the writing of “Double Date” required a lot of forward-thinking and arc setup. I’ll be recording commentaries for the back half of Phase Three soon and they will roll out over the coming months.
This commentary contains spoilers for “Double Date” and its following chapter, “Cashmere.” It does not contain spoilers for any pages released in 2022 and 2023.
You may be wondering where this week’s UTC page is. I’ve had some struggles with the script. At first I thought a last-minute rewrite would delay me by only half a day. But when starting to draw it, the scene still felt wrong. Hollow and really easy to nitpick. Then it became obvious a central concept wasn’t working and I was stumbling to write around it/cover it up.
So, I’ve completely thrown out the script for this page and, by consequence, the next two pages beyond it. And now, I’ve got nothing at all to show.
I’m calling this week a wash and will work on getting the page out Monday, April 10.
I apologize for the late notice. You will see a new page next week. Thank you for your patience.
Following up from this post in January, where I announced the upgrade of Phase Two, I’m pleased to announce that Phase One has been upgraded as well, making the UTC up-res project complete! The series’ first 216 pages are now resized in the site archive with larger art and text. Hopefully this will make binging the comic a little easier on the eyes.
Of course, the best possible image quality isn’t found on this site, but rather in the physical trade paperbacks available on IndyPlanet, or the digital versions of the trades on itch.io. But if you just want quick and free browsing, it’s never been easier here on Catomix-dot-com.
If you’ve been checking the site regularly for the latest pages all month, you’ve noticed that I’ve slowly been trying to bring updates back toward the usual Monday release and stop all these mid-week delays. This week’s page was scheduled for Tuesday (today). For a number of reasons, I’ve decided to throw in the towel and push the page back to Thursday, March 2. This means I’m falling short of the 4-pages-per-month target.
Ultimately, the delay will turn out to be a wash, because the original plan after I posted the next page was to announce a break in the comic for the week of March 6. My 40th birthday is next week, and as a little present to myself, I’m going to pause work on the comic so that I can catch my breath, and celebrate with my family and friends.
You might ask, why not just take the break now? The next page feels like a much more appropriate place to pause the comic for two weeks than the one we’re currently on.
So, where we were only going to see 3 pages in March, we’ll have 4 after all. Page CCCXLVII will release on March 2, and then after the break, pages will (maybe I should say “should”) come out March 13, 20 and 27.
As always, the Release Calendar is continuously kept up-to-date with the latest UTC schedule. Even if I don’t make a big splashy announcement here, I will update the calendar, especially if the delay is really short notice.
