I was going to write a lengthy and in-depth post-mortem on the first phase of dinerdate, but frankly I’ve forgotten what I wanted to say. So maybe another time.

What I will say is that I have re-aquainted myself with my old tablet, that I handed down to my dad (who uses it quite a lot actually) when I got my big shiny new one. The sensitivity is higher, but after a few days now it’s like I never stopped using it. So I might finally start inking some new strips soon. It’s hard to go back an draw that first comic when story-wise you’re already about half a year ahead. But there is some good material in there. I like to entertain the thought it’s already better than anything I’ve done with dinerdate before. But I guess you and I will have to wait and see.

To keep you maybe kinda excited, here’s a piece I’ve been sitting on for a while. It’s a drawing of the new cafe.

So that’s about it.
In closing, I’d like to say one more thing:

LiveGamer, fuck you.

It’ll be a while before you see a new comic up here, because my tablet broke and the retailer is being a dick about replacing it, so it might take a while before I get it back and plough through the 30+ scripts for new comics. So hang in there.

I wanted to give the old Dinerdate a proper sendoff, so I decided to add some art to the last comic. I thought the guys walking into the dark forest, never to be seen again, was a nice metaphor.

If you’re wondering how the storyline would have progressed, I might share it with you some other time.

In closing, a look ahead:

The setting and the cast have been determined, and I have a month worth of strips written. But I want to have everything figured out before I put anything up.

The plan was to make the new cast all-human, but after I posted that on twitter I got a couple of reactions saying that the talking animals were, quote, “awesome sauce”.

I’ll keep you updated.