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 Apologies for another late post.

I'm setting a weekly reminder now, I haven't had one for quite some time because I've been doing this every week for almost a year? Posting I mean. Yet...apparently now I forget about it every Tuesday. I'm not sure how we got here. I will say yesterday I was quite busy, had an early start etc and so I can see how it slipped my mind. It is very irritating though. Because I made sure the night before, as I often do, that there was a page ready to post. So to have it ready then immediately forget to post it is just...well I dunno. I feel guilty. I do. I know only a couple of you actually check for this every week and most people won't notice. But all the same...the guilt is there.

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I go through phases being so on the ball with posting these and then suddenly I just forget to do it each week. Last week I posted it here but then didn't post it on whatsapp 'til like 1am. Ah well.

 

Okay, so apparently there's 52 weeks in a year. But it's been less than a year and I've posted this comic every single week. Accept for that one time I posted two in a week. And that other time I didn't post anything. And that VERY first post where I posted 2 again. But that still only takes as up to next week, which is still like a month before the anniversary of the first post.

Make it make sense? Were we lied to? Do weeks not really have 52 weeks? Is it more? Am I in some kind of time warp? Does Tuft Luck the Unlucky Black Cat DEFY the laws of physics?

Speaking of 62 (I know we were talking about 52 not 62, but it's more or less the same thing no?) For some reason I've been convinced there are 62 pages of this comic. But there are actually 61. So page 61 is where it ends. I don't know which one number I'd written before, but I'm confirming it now. So this kicks off the last 10 pages of Tuft Luck. I hope you've enjoyed his crazy adventure and stick around for the ending.

 

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Slightly later post today as I've scanned in a big batch of pages. I think maybe all but one page are scanned in now. Still some tweaking to do on a few of the ones already scanned in. But we are now arriving at that crucial point of actually being finished.

 

So yeah, I've been working hard. In fact so hard that I think I might've been a bit starved for attention recently, because I found my self giving random people lip for no reason. I'm not just talking housemates I'm talking strangers in the street. Someone says something to someone behind me, and I assume they're talking to me and start mouthing off. Always with a smile of course. I'm not a monster. It's always clear I'm kidding. But also...I don't realise until afterwards that they weren't even talking to me. I'm not sure what was happening. Is this the first stage of becoming the local weirdo? The thing is it came right off the back of me being less social in my day to day. Thankfully I've been able to see some people since, but it was like my sass mouth quota wasn't being reached and I was just fiending for an opportunity to back talk.

I'm not hooked on smack or crack. I'm hooked on smack talk and cracking wise. Anyone can get it. You just have to talking in earshot of me.

 

On a different note, I went to forbidden planet the other day to check out some graphic novels and in order to figure out what kind of cover I wanted. My worries about making a graphic novel were unfounded. I can't remember if it was here or my mailing list where I was saying that I'm not sure how many pages a graphic novel has to be, I basically just read a couple things online and then got in my head and thought I was making it wrong. But actually, it's really fine. Even the comic being landscape is not nearly as big of an issue as I thought. So everything's fine. We are all good.

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Okay. Alright. I'm just gonna come out and say it already.

There is a running gag in this cartoon that I can't tell if people have picked up on or not. No one has ever mentioned it. But it's been consistently happening in this comic since the opening pages. I think the Catsu Curry page  is where it started. 4 or 5 or 6.

Okay so if you don't know what I'm talking about, go to that page. And it's also on this page. See if you can figure out my cheeky little joke I have been making repeatedly throughout this comic.

Go now!

 ...

Okay, welcome back. Did you figure it out? Did you even LEAVE? Party pooper!

It's the swearing.

Go on check again. See if you can piece it together. Or maybe you already realised?

Every single swear word is censored using various symbols. Except...you can still clearly see the word. The symbols I choose always spell the exact word really clearly, especially the way I draw it.

I'd call it a mixture between a joke and a stylistic choice. It's like, cartoons and comics have this thing they do (the symbols I mean) that imply bad language without actually using bad language. But Tuft Luck (as you well know) ain't that kinda comic. So it's stylistically like a family friendly cartoon, but again...you can very clearly read the work as if it was written normally. To be honest, I think the way it ends up looking is pretty neat.

So that's my joke. I was making it the whole time. Now that we're near the end it's time I come clean about these kinds of things. Also...I didn't know what else to write about today. I suppose this is the comic book equivalent to when an adult comedy is censored on tv, but you still hear like the first and last sounds, so it becomes some pretty f(bleep)cking redundant sh(bleep)t.

But lets all be honest. The swearing doesn't matter. What REALLY should have been censored, was that guy in the cat costume back with Tuft's family. I've counted FOUR perverts in this comic. Or what about that bit where they ate that guys head? Man, this comic is f(bleep)cking nuts.