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Maaaaan printing a book is way more complicated than I thought. But we're almost there. In the end I had my book reviewed by a print expert rather than printing a test version for myself and it was better off that way cos boy, did I not know what I was doing.

But now the story is "over". But not without a little extra tidbit:

It was not until I was uploading all of the pages and putting the final copy of the book together that I realised I had skipped an ENTIRE page.

Between page 40 - 41 there's a page that I never included. In fact I never even drew it. I had a rough version of it done, actually it was one or the earliest pages I'd written. And somehow it just slipped under the radar and I'd forgotten the page existed. So I last minute had to draw a new page and slot it into place. I guess it wasn't ESSENTIAL to the story. But I'm thinking it's still important to the general pacing and flow of the story. I do think it's worse off without it.

Anyway, as far as this blog is concerned Tuft Luck is complete.

I've already said a lot in relation to this coming to a close so, not much to say on that front. But uhh..thanks for reading. I think I've said that already too.

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Thanks to everyone who's given feedback, or just been generally along for the ride. I know there's only a few of you who stuck out to the end (I got a few "I'll just wait 'til I can buy the book" which is fine) but it's been really handy to have you guys to commit to and keep me consistently producing pages.

 

This book is finished but there's so much more to come. I hope you'll come back to The House of the Disturbed... 

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The penultimate page!

I'm currently trying to get the pages together to print a test copy, hopefully this evening. I feel like there's a more professional sounding word than 'test', but I can't think of it so I keep saying test copy. OH WAIT! PROTOTYPE. Yes. I'm going to print the proto-copy, hopefully this evening.

So yeah, it's been a wild run and uhhh...I hope you enjoyed the story and found it not to be really bad. I remember imagining this moment, and now we're a week away! What a crazy life. I look forward to re-reading this comic after a long period of purposefully avoiding looking at it again. It could be years, decades even until I decide I want to actually look back at it. My general rule is: if you can still remember the details of what it was like to make, you won't enjoy looking back at it. That's why all of my favourite things that I've made were from when I was 15.

I don't care if I'm a much better artist over a decade later (holy knees and toelys is that how long ago that was???) I'd much rather watch a flash cartoon I made in school than anything I've made since ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. Why? Cos It's extremely distant, so I can appreciate it for what it is. That's why I'm gonna have to wait many years until I look at this nonsense again.

Now the fun part! WHAT is gonna happen in the last page? I'll tell you this right now. There's not a lot that CAN happen on the last page. I'm certainly not introducing a bunch of new story elements and plot points. If anything, I should have asked this last week. Cos I mean really, THIS is the ending right? It even says so in the last panel. Tuft foes are defeated, and now he can kick back and watch TV with a witch and a vampire. Truly a happy ending. Just one more page to put a bow on this thing a year later (or in Tuft's world, about 2 days).

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So I know everyone and their nan is waiting for the conclusion to the bird watching situation. But before we get to that, I've spent my whole life thinking Pix n Mix was Pick A Mix. I guess that doesn't really make as much sense as what it actually is. But I still feel like my whole world has been shattered. Pick N MIX? This whole time? Life is just too much sometimes.

So as for bird watching, at this point I think I might as well cave and give it a try. Well, I say that like I will actually give it a try, but I probably won't anytime soon. But my shame around it seems to be only mildly justified, and the encouragement I've had since is starting to make me feel like I'm in the closet or something. So, arguably being a bird watcher is less shameful to me than being a closeted bird watcher. That's just weird, how much longer can I continue on that path?

Man if this is how being a bird watchers feels, being actually gay must be a nightmare. You think all bird watchers go through this? Where they have to eventually realise and accept themselves? I know the answer is no, but it's funny to believe that it's yes. Man I'm an odd cookie, huh?