Sorry I’m late. I’ll do better next time.

So I’m at work on the next page now, but as a heads up, it might be late. Sorry. Love you all.

So, since Hindu is a real religion and people do worship Ganesh, I tried to do my research to get everything right and keep from offending anyone. I’m not Hindu, after all.

But I made a mistake.

See, the way I read the superstition regarding Ganesh’s birthday, aka Ganesh Chaturthi, is that looking upon the moon will prove you innocent when you’re the victim of false accusation. Sadly, I got it backwards. Gazing at the moon on Ganesh Chaturthi will result in you being falsely accused. See, the Moon insulted Ganesh, and we ought to avoid those who insulted the Lord on his birthday.

Well crap.

I don’t know if my information was wrong or if I just didn’t do well on my reading comprehension.

The story hinges quite a bit on this backwards belief, so it’s a pretty big fowl-up on my behalf. So we’re going to just work around it by saying that since the Gajadhipati consider themselves favored by Ganesh that the rule doesn’t apply to them and the opposite is true. Which is pretty weak, I know, and I’m sorry.

My humblest apologies to you all for fowling this up. I’ll try not to do it again.

Something that sticks out in my mind about the Jersey beaches is the grass, so I made sure to put it in here. Tall, grayish green, and growing just along the edge, letting you get peeks of the water before you eventually reached the sand.

Here’s the passage of time. I’ve said before that the story takes place over Fiona’s summer break, and now June comes to an end, leaving two months left before she goes back to her boarding school in Ohio (my home state). Enjoy!

This page right here is all done, but because I have such a big weekend coming up, (many parties to attend) I wanted to hurry up and get it done by last night.

Which honestly just proves that I can get two pages done a week. That’s the goal. Let me build up a buffer first.

Anyhoo, enjoy the preview.

I’ve also been making a more solid outline for Book Two, since One is pretty much done, writing wise. Few things to tweak at the end, but minor things to hash out. You’re going to love the ending (I hope).

But then it occurred to me that I’m only on chapter four. There are five more to go. And updating once a week, with a lot of pages in each chapter… it’s going to be a looooong while before Book Two.

So then I was thinking I should update twice a week. I think I could manage it. Heck, back in the day I updated 3 times a week. Baby steps. Something to strive for. Heck, it’s Wednesday and I’m nearly done inking the next comic, coloring only takes a couple hours.

Meanwhile, over at the Zazzle Shop, I added an Archduke section. Check it out.

And if you’re interested in being a guest artist/inker/colorist for any pages ahead or any side stories in the works, drop me a line and let me know.

PS: Have you joined the GBD Facebook group yet?

Here’s how it works. Ask a question in the comments below, and the Archduke himself will answer. Have at it!