I’m always excited to post a new page. Recently I buckled down and penciled the rest of book 1 so I know the exact page count and have a clear finishing line for this first book, so I am very excited to reach that goal. I have inked a couple more pages, so if we are lucky, at least for the next few weeks, you’ll be getting weekly updates again.
What is the plan after I finish book 1? Well, I do need to take a hiatus from Bearmageddon and do some other things, but I want to tell the whole story. Even at the end of book 1, we are only 1/3 of the way into the story I want to tell. You can see in that banner across the top of this page, I have had a lot of crazy plans from the beginning for this thing and I still want to reach the promise of the premise. As for the book, once it is out, I will warn you now, that I may not keep the entire thing online for free. I will probably leave up the first 20-30 pages for free, then people can buy book 1 if they want the rest. Once I start book 2, I will most likely do it the same way I did book 1, releasing it page by page as a free web comic. So, be warned, this content may not be up for free forever. I need to whatever makes the most sense for the book to actually sell.
As for the page today, I feel like what is happening to Gogs here is one of the unfortunate mishaps that would really happen. He has been handling gas like crazy, he is injured, in a hurry… sure the bear is lethal, but that fire is too, and he isn’t safe from either.
On another book-related note, that chunk of pages that never got colored between when I lost Noah and gained Kailey will need to be colored. These pages are a lot of work for one colorist (we salute you Kailey) and it helps a lot if we can get some color-flatters on board. So if you would be interested in color flatting, let me know. Use the contact page on this site and send a link to your work, what your hoped-for page rate would be and at what pace you think you could flat pages. I would send your flatted pages on to Kailey to shade and detail so that the pages all match.
Ethan
Put me down for a book right now.
I sure hope Groggs makes it. He has become a favorite character of mine, watching him grow up in the tale. But I know that there has to be casualties in a story of this sort.
Is this an April Fool’s joke?
You get people into a story then abandon it to support your family, fine. People got to eat. But to pull the pages to sell books is completely shitting on the people that have supported you and have been more than patient with you.
And you’re not doing it for free, you have a Patreon, you get paid per published page.
This is either your job or your hobby, you can’t do both successfully, not the way you approach it.
I’m fucking done with Bearmageddon, the other readers can keep doing the Battered fan syndrome. I’ve had enough.
I would be selling books to support my family as well. I told my Patreon supporters I would give them digital versions of the book for free if and when I take any pages down, so they are covered. But it doesn’t make sense to me to put an entire book online for free. I may be mentioning this prematurely since it will really be contingent on my agreement with whoever publishes it.
I can’t work out in Boosh is serious with his riciculous outburst over something speculative and with ample warning. It is totally within Ethan’s rights to take off the free pages after the book is out. The pages are going to be viewable here as they are finished, so if you keep up to date then there is no problem at all. And I’m sure even though you mentioned ‘what about the Patreon’ commentt you haven’t pledged so you’re just another person on the internet wanting something for nothing.
But yeah, continue doing the Entitled Fan Syndrome, there are plenty of other people who understand that Ethan has been more than generous for putting out this comic for free for the last 3 or so years.
I’ll be getting the book when it’s published. Been waiting for a hard copy to get my hands on!
I don’t see the point in getting so upset over the news when the freeloaders are just going to quietly Internet Archive this stuff anyway.
So not cool with this alt text! What I am cool with is your decision to put up some form of pay wall on older content eventually. It’s your content, so anything you choose to do with it is fine by me. I’m just happy to read about people fighting bears. Keep up the good work!
put me down for at least one copy of every book!
PS. Goggs! Nooooooo!
Gogs can’t die now! He still has to kill a bear with a single punch!
Glad to see another page up!
On a side note, are bearicatures still coming when the group gets to a more populated area? I’m still looking forward to seeing myself getting torn to pieces.
Yes! That will be in volume 2, so it is a long way out. As I say from time to time, if you bought a bearicature, you are welcome to a refund if you have lost patience. My life has changed a lot since I sold those. But if you don’t mind waiting you will eventually make it in!
I’m a patient guy 🙂 That’s great news, thanks for the time frame update. I’m excited to see where this story goes.
Any more room on the bearicature front? I’m actually still kinda bummed that I missed the boat on those awhile back. I’d happily put the money in for it, and, like Pete, I’m in no hurry for when it happens. I’m patient as well.
I know that you are looking for a bit more income from this project, so you can have a little more from me if you feel there is space to add another bearicature in there down the road. Let me know either way. 🙂
Stop, drop and roll! Where’s Smokey when you need him damnit!?
Hi Ethan! Thanks for another great page! A quick thought….given that there are a bunch of negative trolls who keep using the comment section to gripe about not receiving free webcomics on their own terms, maybe it’s worth deactivating the comment thread entirely? People don’t seem to be able to understand that they’re not entitled to something they’re not paying for. I’d just hate to see a few bad apples spoil the fun you should be having with Bearmageddon, if and when you have the opportunity to update. Thanks, and best of luck on all your projects!
Or make comments dependant on approval, which takes time to do I guess.
I think that’s a little extreme. I think people have as much right to complain as they do anything else. I’m not saying I agree with Boosh, but I feel he has the right to voice his opinion. You might feel he’s being petty and childish, but that doesn’t mean he deserves to be silenced. Besides, I’m sure Ethan has pretty thick skin and for each criticism I see, there are plenty more people promising to buy books and praising the comic.
Oh noes, Goggs!
On the book/online content side of things, I’d get a copy of the book. This is a crazy story you’re putting out there for us to read, and if you do keep it up until vol. 1, then limit the free stuff, but post vol. 2 as it’s made, and do the same sort of thing, I can’t see anything wrong with that. It’s not like you’re making dozens of shirt/print/whatever other purchaseables out there to supplement whatever ad revenue you may (or may not) be getting from the site. There’s some merch, but you aren’t making a comic to make merch (save books, eventually) you’re telling a story, and a couple things came up that work with it. It’s your creation, you can do whatever you want with it, and if that’s sharing it while working on it, then selling a finished product, I can’t see any reason someone would get all butt-hurt over that. I mean, look at Ratfist: TenNapal put the pages up as they were done, released a book once it was finished (with a bit of extra content) and last I checked the page now has info & Amazon links. It was free for a long time, I’m sure people have it archived digitally (as its just what happens online) but in the end it’s his work, and he’s selling it the same as any other comic author/artist does (except it was free for a while, unlike most all print comics)
Hmm…wall of text up there. Anyway, keep it up at whatever speed works with life and when the books are ready there’ll be a number of us waiting to get a hold of them.
Who cares about pulling the pages! Reals fans will be proud to own a copy and support the artist who created the book! I want one! I started reading this three weeks ago after a long distracted 2 and half hour break from homework just to read the story from the beginning! Of course I want a book!