It appears I've finally stepped out of my selfish, unscheduled, 6 day-long hiatus to grace you once more with the presence of my mediocre webcomic! I won't try to justify myself with excuses like working late at the office or illness. The fact of the matter is that I was playing a lot of videogames. All within a week I got my 360 back from Microsoft (and could therefore resume Lost Odyssey), finally got on live long enough to download some Live Arcade games (namely Ikaruga, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, and Rez HD), the GF and I finally bought a Wii (and subsequently had to also buy Smash Brothers Brawl and Mario Galaxy, two games I've been itching to play for some time), and a friend of mine (props, Tom) lent me his PSP so I could give Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core a try (a "try" being something like 10 hours of gameplay and counting). This is all on top of being smack dab in the middle of a case in Apollo Justice. So that's what I've been up to. As a matter of fact, the reason I finally pulled myself away from the games and dragged my sorry self back to drawing had less to do with a sense of guilt and more to do with the fact that I sat down to watch the first episode of Code Geass R2 and was struck by inspiration.

This inspiration, however, came along with a sense of frustration with my own story, as watching a well-executed, but highly different story from your own is wont to do. Mainly, this was because of how Lelouch Lamperouge can be such an interesting and dynamic protagonist. Compared to our own Kanzaki Kei whose chief conflict (at the moment) is with his own wishy-washiness, Lelouch is driven. He's got his eyes on the proverbial prize. He's also highly intelligent and self-confident, where Kei is a bit of a goof and an amateur. Yes, I'm sure you're thinking, we get it, they're different characters. But what does that matter? And besides that, you invented this character that you're complaining about, so it's your own fault and if you don't like it, then tough cookies. Fair enough. It's not that I'm particularly disappointed in Kei as a character, but sometimes being tied down to a particular character and story can feel restrictive. And an introverted character like Kei who tends to prefer thinking over acting can make it feel like nothing ever happens fast enough. The reason I bring this up isn't because I'm planning on doing anything drastic like killing CRB and starting over with something else. But rather that I wanted to mention that I have other ideas bouncing around in my head and that they'll at some point (hopefully) become sister-projects to CRB. Why do you need to know? Well, you don't really. I just felt like if I mentioned it here, it might get me to think about it some more and maybe even start working on it.

I may write something about Crisis Core when I've finished it.