…along with the launch of a new site from yours truly. I’ve been working on it for a while and putting the finishing touches on it this past week and its finally about ready.

From now on, Suburban Tribe will feature shorter story arcs with breaks in between. Subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up to date!

Thanks to everyone who has hung around during my far too long hiatus. I don’t need to tell anyone how tumultuous 2008 was for me, because obviously, it was no walk in the park for anyone. Here’s to better times ahead.

Speaking of which, I had planned to write a lengthy blog entry tonight that would detail what I have in store for this site and the strip. However, there’s just too much to put into one post, so I thought that I would just cover events as they unfold.

So, here’s the first announcement: The current story will wrap up in another 7-8 strips, and the ending will serve as a kind of soft reboot for the comic. Once we get to that point, Suburban Tribe will have a new publishing schedule and I will announce the publication date of the second trade paperback and begin taking preorders.

Stick around, spread the word, follow me on Twitter and Friend me on Facebook. There’s lots more to come!

P.S.: If you’re subscribed to the RSS feed, make sure that you’ve got the most recent one here. It switched over when I upgraded the site to WordPress last fall.

It’s true. Sorry that it has been so long. Look for a more detailed blog this coming Monday, February 2 that will let you know what’s to come.

Also, a quick apology from yours truly for deleting all the well-wishing comments from the people who posted in the entry below asking about me and the comic. I accidentally deleted them when scouring spam from the site. Wordpress seems to attract spam like Britney Spears attracts Tractor Pull season-ticket holders.

Migration to ComicPress is mostly complete. I need to add static pages that were in the last version of the site (Cast page, Store, Story Arcs page, etc.), but all of the strips are in the archive and we have a fully-functioning design with a rich and fast-loading WordPress blogging and comments system, so I’m stopping the site update for now. Please email me if you find any bugs.

I know that comic updates have been spotty, to say the least. I have no intention of abandoning the comic or the many new ideas I’ve had for the site for so long (new video content, new merchandise, etc.), but the simple fact is my professional life has been going through quite the rough patch. After finding full-time employment back in May, I was laid off less than 2 weeks ago. Here in the states, that means I don’t even qualify for unemployment benefits and I must pay for medical insurance on my own for my entire family.

As a result, I have to take every freelance job that has come my way, and they all have incredibly tight deadlines. Earning money comes before the strip, so hopefully, once I can become gainfully employed again, I can cut out all of the time-consuming freelance work and get back to dedicating most of my free time to Suburban Tribe. Until then, I’m at the mercy of the fates and can only provide strip updates at irregular intervals.

Thanks to everyone who keeps coming back for more. Hopefully, there will be more to come back to here soon.

In spite of my sporadic updates (Every time I promise that I’m back for good, something completely derails me, so I stopped making promises) I am still very active with this site and comic strip. I have plans, dammit, and one of them is about to happen: I’m about to switch to ComicPress and leave this musty old ASP database in an archive DVD on my bookcase.

As such, do not panic if you stop by over the next few days and find the site down or find broken links. I’m simply switching over to ComicPress and will be in the process of uploading strips, stomping out bugs, etc.

Wish me luck!