New release: Spider-Girl, issue #23

A case of mistaken identity has become a deliberate plan to deceive, as after school girl Liz Allen was kidnapped by Hollywood reject Quentin Beck, AKA Mysterio, together they hatch a plan for Liz to become Spider-Girl. Both of them have quite different agendas, however, and Betty Brant - newly employed as an investigative reporter for the Daily Bugle - is about to get caught in the middle....

Issue #23: The Girl Who Would Be Spider-Girl

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Yep, it's here. Just over two years since the last issue. Not much more to say, really; read the previous blog post if you have the time.

Issue #24 and #25 to follow in the next few weeks when I have time. I forgot what a pain in the ass it was to get these from my word processor to the wider world.

PS: Yep, I'm 'sharing' these on Google Drive (AKA Google Docs). I am not publishing them as web pages - yet. I may do in the near future. Let me know if you like/prefer that option.

PPS: I've finally disabled anonymous comments. Getting a Gmail account or OpenID that's anonymous is stupidly easy. If you want to comment, please do so in a way that helps me track who said what.

The real reason for a four month gap

Yep, still haven't released the 'missing' SG issues I mentioned last time. I have a pretty good excuse. Excuses, actually.

First the big one. Some time after I wrote the last post, I was laid off from my job. Unexpectedly, as tends to be the case with layoffs. It's not a good feeling and it tends to throw your life into disarray. I was lucky to find another job not too long afterwards, but that came with a lot of life changes. Needless to say I didn't want to sit in front of the keyboard much after that.

Second. The truth is when I dashed off that post in May I wasn't actually done with 25. I was really close. In fact I'm still not done; there's one last scene. It's probably 30 minutes of work. I also need to edit and rewrite 23, 24 and 25 itself, although I'm almost done with that process. So, bit of work still to be done. But why haven't I done it in the last few months?

Ah, excuse the third. Truth is, I have no damn idea what I'm doing any more, and not much of a clue why I'm doing it, either.

The series could run indefinitely. I know that now. I have plotlines that could run forever. I have major arcs, minor arcs and all sorts of crazy ideas. I have long term plans. I could even throw in a 'Brand New Day' or a 'Marvel Knights' style reboot (or even, as I contemplated a while back, a MAX version of the series - AKA 'all the sex, swearing and violence I want').

Here's the problem: right now, I gain nothing from this. Absolutely zero. Allow me to get very 'real' for the rest of this post.