Catena Comics

Mama appears to be more than we thought.

I wonder if Treiss will wear her new dress?

I wonder if Hank will ever get out of that tree?

I wonder if anyone noticed that Papa ate all the ice cream?

I’ve started advertising Catena on other comic sites again. Welcome new people! We update on Mondays! If you don’t know what’s going on, just click the archives link at the top and start at the beginning. Catena is meant to be somewhat random fun for an otherwise dreary Monday morning. We will have printed comics, but it’s going to be later in the year before they pop up. We want to add extra pages to the printed comics so that people who have already read the online version will still get something new.

I set up some basic filters for the comments on the bottom of the page. I’ve flagged most of the nastier invectives for automatic moderation. So if you say something particularly saucy, chances are it’ll end up in my queue before it’s routed back to the comments page with little ****s replacing your best words. Let’s try to keep it relatively clean.

In less comic-related news, I started playing a rogue-like game called “Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup“. My last character lasted quite a while until he somehow lost the ability to cast spells, could no longer heal himself, and ended up dying at the hands of a bolt trap. Man – he had a disintegration wand and everything.

I also played a pretty good chunk of Team Fortress 2 so I could pick up a bunch of the new items Valve added a while back. I got the Eyelander, the Gunboats, the Pain Train, the Equalizer, and the Direct Hit. I still need the Buff Banner, the Chargin’ Targe, the Homewrecker, and a whole bunch of hats. When I get to play, I tend to go for Pyro, Sniper, or Engineer. I try not to play too often though – it’s really an addictive game!

Have a good one!

Bookmark us!

He’s so good he can play with a gamepad and still ace.

Catena now has a Facebook page. We don’t have a lot there at the moment, but that will change later in the spring. We’ll probably put photos from conferences and well, you tell us what you want to see.

I made some changes to the Catena website that will hopefully make it load faster. You have to have a modern browser to take advantage of the site now, but from the statistics I looked at, it seems like most of the readers will be ok. Please let me know if something breaks! If you are using IE4 or IE5 it is time to upgrade (for more than one reason).

Last week I only left comments turned on for 5 days. Now they are turned on for 10. I may enable comments for old posts, but that is going to wait until later in the summer. I have some more tweaks I want to do before I tackle that task. Note: I do read all the comments, but I don’t always respond to each one.

After this arc is over, I will have more time to put into the story itself. I had at least one request for a “slice of life” style Catena some time ago. I’ve heard calls for a lot of other things too, and I have some plans of my own. Instead of making polls, I just want to hear from you directly. Let me know in the comments.

I know that you guys want voting incentives for sure. I will not be able to do those until later in May. Right now I have a contract that is taking up most of my time through the week. When the contract has concluded (towards the middle of May or so), I’ll look at cool stuff like voting incentives for Catena. I actually do get around to filling most fan requests, it just takes a bit of patience.

There is a tiny “license agreement” underneath the comments area now. Basically it tells you that you gave us permission to post your comment on our site when you hit the “comment” button. It also says that by hitting the “comment” button you confirm that you are 13 years old or older. The agreement was added for legal reasons and is pretty standard, so hopefully it won’t be of any concern.

Until then, please vote for us out of the kindness of your hearts!

Bookmark us!