Early Bird Vol. 1 Progress Tease - November 2024 (New Scheduled Date for Completion!)
11 days ago
– Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 04:36:58 PM
Hey everyone! As promised, the update for this month will reveal more insight and details about Early Bird Vol. 1's status, including a new planned date for the book's completion.
Federica and I have arranged and outlined a very thorough and rigid schedule to get Early Bird Vol. 1 finished and prepared for print by the end of May, 2025. That puts the new planned deadline for completion exactly six months out from now, about ten months past the initially planned ship date, about eleven months since I revealed the delay earlier this year, and just shy of the Kickstarter campaign's two-year anniversary.
Please note that May 2025 is not a fulfillment date, but the window in which I intend to have Early Bird Vol. 1 prepared to be shipped off for printing. Nonetheless, the announcement of a finished 120~ page graphic novel will be the largest milestone I'll be able to report, and fulfillment will occur not long after (other rewards can be planned and ordered ahead of the steps in getting the book printed).
Everyone has been incredibly, infinitely supportive and patient as they wait for Early Bird Vol. 1 to arrive, but just about any creative ambition will always, without fail, be the subject of a collision at the intersection of Thing is Bigger Than I Thought and Thing Takes Longer Than I Thought. It's so common and expected that, even planning for this, I was still (like countless others) somehow caught a bit flatfooted. It's obviously possible for other setbacks or complications to occur, but be assured that Federica and I are going to work our hardest to meet the new end-of-May deadline for completion.
And to complete this update, please have a look at a newly drawn set of panels featuring our two leads:
I hope everyone is able to have an enjoyable holiday season, in spite of relevant worldly developments that may range from troubling to genuinely disastrous. We're all in this together, and with solidarity and compassion, we can make it out the other side.