Kay? I promise.

I don’t have news. Maybe later on.

LATER ON: I have decided that this strip may be a metaphor for the start of the Tigers’ season. That’s not a good thing. Perhaps it was subconsciously I made the guy’s hat a Tigers hat, but I’m not happy about it. I’d rather have seen a Yankee fan drowning…at least they don’t have souls. Ok ok. Sorry.

Did I getcha?

MUAHAHAHA. New comic up later today.

….Aaaaand we’re back!

Unfortunately, something horrible happened.

When I formatted my hard drive I left my external hard drive (the one I transferred all my files onto) plugged into my computer. And somehow it formatted that too.

So I accidentally erased everything I spent a week backing up. I think I cried.

Also, the previous filler comic has been removed. Thanks to everyone who commented! Um. The buttons are still down here though. I think I’m gonna put them on every comic from now on, okay? Sorry about the wait, now sit back and enjoy all the new ideas I done saved up!

VOTE!

It’s up at Land of Nodd right now.  GO SEE!!!

Soon I’m going to have a “GUEST STRIPS” thing up above, as well as a “RANDOM” but that means I’ll probably have to get rid of some stuff.

I’M SO MAD AT MY COMPUTER RIGHT NOW.

Also there seems to be a problem where I haven’t been drawing comics. Toohoo.

This is how I respond under pressure. (Hey, I wasn’t expecting like 10,000 visits a day until like the end of my first year.)

At this juncture it looks like you’ll get one on Sunday.

This website, this…everything, all of it, is an experiment. I want to learn how to make this the best strip I can make it, and what sort of things work well and what sort of things don’t. That means, sadly, that not all of the strips I put up are going to be things I’m completely satisfied with.

Like this one. If I could, I’m sure I’d do a whole lot more to it. I tried a bit of shading with the dodge and burn tool…maybe it worked a little, maybe it sucks. I don’t know. I’m inclined to think that it sucks the way it is…but that with more work I could do some great things with it.

Yeah. So there’s some more experimentation for ya.

If you like this comic, let me know. And here, if you like Empty Headbox, click these things.

Instead of doing updates every MWF and every other Sunday, I’m going to do something else.

On the weeks where a Super Sunday Double is scheduled, I’ll only be updating twice. And these two times (gasp!) will be on Tuesday and Thursday, instead of M, W, or F.

This is partly because I just moved back to school and haven’t had time to do today’s strip yet, and partly because of concerns that with doing 4 comics one week and 3 the next week and 4 the next week again, that I’m going to burn out and start to lack in the idea department. And that’s not something I want to do. I’ve decided it’s best for EHB to do this, and so I’m going to.

Just wanted to let you know.

Also, if you’re not sure what schedule it is in a given week, just keep checking back Or go by the Super Sunday Double - if I’ve done one, then the following week will be MWF. Then TRS.

The important thing is there’s still 3 a week. Cool.

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Also, I want to take a second to talk about the fifty-thousand people that saw my Belly Button comic, all (basically) via StumbleUpon. Out of those fifty-thousand, it’s rational to assume that four or five have decided to follow Empty Headbox. It’s a rational assumption. That strip alone got 8 positive reviews and 3 negatives…and one of the negatives (”Another reminder of why I hate 90% of web comics.”) was from a guy who’d previously rated several hundred webcomics negatively, saying,  “I wish I could burn all the webcomics out there. Except xkcd.” He obviously has very…refined…tastes.

Of the positives, there was, “….”

No, you know what? I’m not going to repost any of the positives. That’s lame. I’m lame for thinking about doing that. Instead, the rest of the negatives:

“HILARIOUS. -.-”

and

“Caps lock does not equal yelling.” (He has a point. It equals typing.)

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P.S. I do not dislike XKCD. I just, you know, am aware of the fact that it’s the “hip” or “trendy” comic to read. Kind of like how Dinosaur Comics were a year ago. I just don’t think other comics should be put down because they’re not like XKCD in that some of us have to be funny AND draw something. Nowadays, webcomics are for intellectuals, not for artists. Or people who like to laugh.

Here it is:

Reminded me why I hate speech bubbles. And yeah, it really is that small.

Oh, the awards are here and here. Congratulations to everyone who took home…er…won something!