With NaNoWriMo being a significant drain on my time, the chances of more Series Three stories than Series Two ones this month are significant.  I’m not saying it’s definitely going to be a month of three-panel stories, but chances are high.

This one came to me late on Sunday, i.e. yesterday by the time this is published, when I was trying desperately to think of something to draw for this comic.  It was originally going to be another Kevin strip but in the end it just didn’t seem to fit.  I substituted Kevin for a conversation between Nob and Franky and hey presto!  It seems to work a lot better.

Your opinion may vary, of course.

It’s a strange thing when a story picks up and runs in a completely different direction to what you intended.  The story will be finishing on Friday, taking the place of a Series Three comic that will most likely turn up on Monday instead.

As the previous message I added says, there has been a lot of database and server trouble; which is why the comic is late.  It’s difficult to upload a comic when the FTP system doesn’t work, and it’s even harder to make the comic publish itself when the database your comic is sat on doesn’t work.  Still, it seems it’s all fixed now so I suppose that’s okay.  Whatever happened, it seems to be resolved now and I hope the delay wasn’t too unbearable for you.

Sometimes these strips go in a completely different direction to what I envisaged when I started writing the story.  This one is case in point, with the final frame being the key to this.  I had a very clear-cut idea when I started out writing this story and it went in a different direction the moment Nob Mouse ran into a cupboard at the end of part one, leaving me asking myself “how am I going to get him out of this?”.  As the saying goes, it all went downhill from there.

Still, I know I can wrap this up nicely, in time for Halloween; which is the point of the story, so that’s not too bad.  Tune in next week for the shocking conclusion and remember, folks: don’t have nightmares!