One week of other projects distracting me. One and a half weeks of planned vacation where I ended up getting absolutely no work done. And during that vacation, a direly unwanted mark on the “I’m an adult now” chart: a friend who’s a little younger than me is dead now. So after I got back from vacation, I got right back on a plane and went down to LA for his funeral.

Six airplane flights in five days. That takes a lot out of you.

Yesterday was the first day home; I spent it basically staring off into the nether reaches of the Internet. Today I read the first volume of Suicide Squad (yo ho). It was pretty good, one of the best pieces of “realistic” superhero stuff I’ve read in a long time. Well, except for the five or six issues where they get caught up in one of those company-spanning megaplots and half the story’s told in other comics.

Also I drank a heck of a lot of water. I think I’m almost adequately hydrated again.

I also finally upgraded WordPress here. Had to pretty much reinstall it from scratch because what I did to harden WP against hacks also hardened it against, um, upgrades. Sigh. You can have utility, or you can have security, but you can’t have ’em both. But at least that means when I say “hey it’s time to get some work done on Rita” I don’t have “upgrade WP” as one of the things “working on Rita” means; I just couldn’t sit down and turn my roughs into final panels with that hanging over my head.

But now the timer’s back on the desk, and “working on Rita” is the clearly-scoped problem of just standing in front of Illustrator slashing out paths. Expect a page or two soon!