I've got 17,550 new pages of Hypothesis for you. Let's call them, collectively, Episode 0.4. Granted, there are only two panels on each page, but that is still too much comic book for anyone to realistically enjoy in a lifetime. So, I've implemented a special technology to move through this stuff automatically for you, with audio. It's called, 'YouTube'. No, it's still a webcomic; it's a genuine piece of my comic (dis)continuity. No, it's also still just a movie. It's what it is. And that is: the best way to chronicle a subplot in which I work to save a rather odd, dystopian 'Swap Universe' from jackbooted copyright thugs and/or bad Hollywood 'event movies'. Speaking of which, reviewed in this episode: Transformers 2, Valkyrie, and the Daredevil: Director's Cut...


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Courtesy of the online comic shop IndyPlanet, and via KA-BLAM's top-notch print-on-demand services, you can now own the Unlimited Edition of Hypothesis #1 for $5.75 USD plus shipping and handling. This inaugural story spans 32 full-colour, all-story pages (no ads), compiling the first three web episodes of Hypothesis, which you can preview in their entirety here, here, and here. It's all free to read online, of course, but as we enthusiasts know, websurfing can't really hold a candle to having the actual floppy comic in your hands, free of scrollbars, windows, menus, or other fidgetry, so that you can just bury your gaze in paper and ink. Maybe bag-and-board it afterward to protect its baroque atomic structure. And then let it spring on the unsuspecting houseguests who inevitably end up rifling through your private museum. Doubt they've ever seen anything quite like this.

It has been a long and personally rocky road to see this first print edition of Hypothesis published — a road begun well over a year ago, when I first sat down in front of Comic Life. And it's a road that ends, inevitably, with an apology for those to whom I promised this months earlier. (Like those of you still waiting for your Collector's Editions — the print shop has them. I am now due to receive delivery in a few weeks. Sorry for the delay.)

I cannot help however, despite the difficulties, but feel optimistic. For with this episode — and I am going ahead with releasing it online for you to preview while we wait — I have finally laid down on the page what was needed to achieve the first leg of my journey. May it find a way to entertain you, in the course of saving my life.


 
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The second episode of Hypothesis has been substantially rewritten, with some new graphical effects, in preparation for a slew of new page releases coming in April and May. Revisit the at-turns harrowing and heartwarming tale of my momentous, obstacle-filled journey down some steps. And through some snow. There's comedy. There's tragedy. You'll laugh. I'll cry.
 

 
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Where I come from, there are no Arts. There is just one art. Of sequence. Before I arrived here, it wouldn't have occurred to me to make a 'motion picture' or a 'graphic novel', any more than writing an adverb novel would occur to you.
 

 
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