by Nicholas Killewald


About: The Physical Chapter Two Book

(That thing you can buy)


Well, unfortunately, right now the answer is "nowhere". Amazon made some significant changes to CreateSpace that stops me from selling it through their eStore thingamajig and would require me to jack up the price a bit. I'm working on a better answer. Sorry about that.

The problem with Chapter One at this point is that the comics you see on the web are the ONLY versions of them I have. Anything Chapter Two onward has 300dpi originals, suitable for printing, but Chapter One is stored entirely at roguhly 90dpi or so. That's... considerably less suitable for printing. Putting those up would require me rescanning and re-editing all of them, and unfortunately, many of those were only done in pencil, and pencil sometimes fades over time...

This isn't to say I won't ever make a Chapter One book. It would, however, involve me redrawing it from scratch. That might be an interesting project, but it's not something I'm going to try just yet.

As it stands with the CreateSpace edition, the book's 8"x10.5" and kinda-sorta around a half-inch thick. In the event this isn't helpful enough, the following pictures should clear things up:

And, for further information, here are a couple shots of the inside of the book:

Notably, that isn't a standard printing size, as I've found out, so when I find a different publisher than CreateSpace, that size will most likely change. Probably to 8"x10.880" or something. The closest I can get without having to redo layout too badly.

Chapter Two had a different problem to Chapter One. Thanks to a poor choice of file format, I couldn't reopen the art files that contain the actual text. However, unlike Chapter One, I COULD get to the artwork itself. So with that in hand, I re-texted every single comic. It cleaned stuff up a lot, but there's a few changes there to what's on the web now:

  • I use Blambot Casual (the current speech bubble font) from the get-go, rather than start with Chiller and change after the demon chicken part.
  • All of the text/thought bubbles are cleaner and look more like how I do them nowadays, rather than how they were done back then. This one's more minor, but you might notice it.
  • Some parts of the comic have been rewritten slightly. Most of this was just to reword awkward sentences or fix some typos or whatnot, some of it was to fit text better with the switch to Blambot Casual, but there are a couple spots where major inconsistencies or plotholes got patched up. Most notably, Salthalus talking about Marzos has been fixed to match up better with Chapter Three.

They already are, in fact! How 'bout that? What you now see on the web matches up with what's in the book. Since I rewrote a few things that didn't add up, it would've been sort of a jerk move not to.

Please be quiet.

Lots of stuff. Thought processes, silly trivia, sensible trivia, art notes, history, details, whatever comes to mind, the origin of Bean Man, that sort. You know, commentaryish stuff.

However, note that the commentary is written for people familiar with the comic up to the point of publication. This means that the discussions WILL involve spoilers up to around the start of Chapter Six.

At present, they aren't, and nobody is. I need to shuffle things around a bit.

Boy, this question sure will become relevant again once I find a different publisher!

I'm hoping to get a publisher who can do that.

Oh, come on, stop kidding around.

...seriously?

Well, I'm considering the logistics of just ordering a few copies (I can still do that from CreateSpace as I work out a new publisher), signing them as need be, and shipping them out myself. It might drive the price up a bit, but that'd be the only way to do it, short of asking me to sign a copy in person or whatnot. More on that once I've decided how it'll all work.

Of course, if you DO find me in person and ask me to sign a copy, I'll probably do so.


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