I tried really hard to phrase Cass’ thought as sympathetic. Some of the first attempts sounded like glib Bond one-liners, which is not the kind of thing Cass would think here.
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.
Page 345 has been pushed back to Thursday, February 16. (February 15 for Early Access patrons.) Apologies for the late notice on this schedule change.
Over the last few weekends, I’ve steadily been updating the site archive and re-uploading the Phase Two chapters in a slightly larger resolution. The pages were originally released at 700 pixels wide, in keeping with the website layout at the time. With Phase Three, I reformatted the site to accommodate pages 750 pixels wide.
As of now, all of Phase Two has been resized to match Phase Three. I plan to do the same for Phase One and the mini-comic “Sister” over the coming weekends. (I’ve been working backwards from the more recent pages so that anyone browsing the archives during this transition will see a “clean” switch from small older pages to big newer pages, instead of starting with bigger pages, then seeing smaller pages, then seeing bigger again.)
I’m not changing the content of the pages. The strip-formatted pages from Chapters 1 and 2 will remain strips. They will just have their upper and lower textual elements removed. (Series title, logo, strip number, strip date, and strip title.) Those parts are redundant, since all of that info is present on the webpage itself nowadays.
For more details and preview images, check out the post on Patreon.
