A Return from Oblivion... With Merchandise!

Holy shit, you guys!  I don't even know if I remember how to post things on here.  Anyway, a quick update; I'm still alive! And living in the sticks, just as I intended. I haven't been drawing too much these days, but long story short I'm involved with a group of artists out here and I'm doing my damndest to get motivated about art again.  It's been hard, and I don't know why.  Well, maybe I do.  Super U. was my baby, and I think the lack of attention it received, particularly from my own friends and family, caused me to be incredibly jaded about my art in general.  I'm still jaded, but talking with some folks out here I accidentally drummed up some interest in the ol' comic (a couple guys even bought books!) and, long story short again, I decided to look into publishing the second book after all.  Lo and behold, Blurb has new and improved self-publishing software, and even better, a reasonably-sized book at a reasonable price!
So here I am, making it available to you.
I gotta say, it looks really good.  Way better than that embarrassing crap I sold before (which is still available for purchase, by the way).  You can even read the print!
The price is just shy of $20 bucks.  A little steep, I know, but keep in mind, Blurb's making half that.  I think I'm only making a couple bucks off the old books now.

I think sometimes about rekindling the comic.  If I did, it would probably look a lot different (for starters, screw drawing on the computer).  Maybe just for me.  I don't know.  I'd love to hear if there's anyone left out there... anyone who's still interested in the comic after all this time.  I won't get my hopes up.  Well... maybe a little.

These Prices are INSANE!!!

Hi!

Just wanted to give you a heads up I've cut the prices on all the merchandise, including the book.  The book, Chapters 1&2, is now $12.99!  Apparently, you can put a price on art.

Also!  All the stuff in the Zazzle store has been reduced significantly, with most of the stickers now being $5.75.  I mean, really, I'm not even going to be making money off this shit anymore.  I just want to sell stuff!  However, the price drops for the Zazzle store won't go into effect until the 20th.  Why?  Because Zazzle sucks, that's why.

You can find the handy-dandy links to Blurb and Zazzle on the left there.

The Book Is Here.

So, I know I said I was going to wait until I had a physical copy in my hand before I made the book available for purchase, but I can't wait.  The book is available for purchase!  There's the link to it, right over there on the left!  You can even preview the first 15 pages!  I'm fairly confident there aren't any glaring errors, but if there are... then oh well!  It's $19.99, but they're probably gonna charge you $7 or $8 to ship it.  Still though, that's worth it, right?  I mean, it's the culmination of a couple years worth of work, right?  C'mon.  Buy one!  Buy several!
If you want as well, you can also purchase an additional PDF version, if that's your thing.

I finally got around to making a button for the Super U. Store.  It features the cover art from the book.  If you don't see it there right away, check back tomorrow; sometimes they take a bit before the get "approved" or whatever.

Oh yeah, also, there's two new movies just below this post here.  I was laughing out loud doing The Commander one.  The flashbacks time to the music and everything.

Introducing the Super U. Store!

Wow, I got a lot of stuff done yesterday.  

- Two more movies, which I'll be posting shortly.  These movies are turning out so much cooler than last chapter's.

- I made and purchased business cards.  They have a barcode on them you can scan with your phone that takes you right to the site.

- I altered the site a little bit, including a smaller logo and a new logo.

- And, most importantly, the Super U. Store is open for business.  Just a shirt and a couple of stickers up right now, but expect to see more in the near future.  I'll also take suggestions!  Currently I'm thinking T-shirts and stickers, but there's all kinds of stuff I can offer, so let me know what kind of swag you're interested in.  Jason mentioned I should do some homage t-shirts, like famous comic covers, only with Super U. characters.  That could be pretty cool.

I actually had another shirt up there, but they took it down because supposedly it was infringing on somebody's rights.  The real kicker is the infringing portion in question, I think, was my new logo.

The only possible explanation I can come up for this is that there's a chain of gas stations in France or some shit called Super U's.  Obviously I didn't know this at the time... I only called the site this because somebody else already took Super University (don't bother to go there, though, it's fucking awful).  Ironic, though, that my other shirt got left up, with the same logo only in black.

The shirt had this on the front.  I rather liked it.

Anyhoo, the more of this stuff I get knocked out soon, the more time I'm going to have to focus on compiling actual physical books of strips together and to learn Manga Studio.  There's also the possibility I might buy my way into my first con this October.

So... please, if you like the comic (or if you don't), show your support and donate or buy some merch, or let me know what kind of merch you would buy and I can make it and then you can buy that.  This is personally my only potential source of income, it's my dream, and at the moment my profits from Super U. are somewhere around negative $250.  I'm not trying to guilt trip you, but... well, okay.  Yes, I am.

Seriously, though, thank you all so much for your support (of any kind).