So the name has switched to ComicGenesis. To be honest, I don't really know why the powers that be felt it necessary to change the name, but knowing doesn't really change anything. According to KeenSpot, the reason for the change was to avoid brand confusion between KeenSpace and KeenSpot, which are owned by the same company. Now, being the naive optimist at heart, I don't believe people are stupid enough to confuse the words Space and Spot. But apparently, people did, so now we all have to change our names because being associated with a free comic hosting service is such a grevious misconception that slapdash policy changes are necessary. No, I'm not bitter.

Overall, changing the site over wasn't that complicated, but there were a few bumps in the road. The big problem now is that all the places that have linked me need to change their links eventually because the redirects will only last for a certain amount of time. Then there was the fun process of trying to find every listing of my comic and change the address. Thanks to the glut of sites where everyone in the internet flocks in to whore their comics, this process took quite a while.

Anyway, back to the blog.

You might have noticed a slight quality change in the art of the comic between Monday's comic and today's comic. The lines are much smoother now thanks to a process I've developed. The trick is to export the line art to Flash and use the trace feature to make it into vector art, this eliminates the miniscule imperfections in the lines. If you look really close at ink on paper, there's slight blurring and inconsistencies that can muck up the look. It can also fix some of the slight errors I make when inking my artwork. So after I have the lines auto-traced, I import them back into Photoshop as an Illustrator document where I color and assemble them into the comic.

Sure, it takes longer, but it's worth it for the fans... fan... okay, nobody. Even I don't read my comic. Great, you just made me sad. I hope you're happy.