Whoa, sudden style change! Thanks to the History page which I’m sure nobody reads, I can explain!

The tablet came with Corel Painter Essentials 2, which was just a thing to let you fiddle around with painting digitally. The “Essentials” part of the name meant that it was actually lacking a bunch of features of its big brother, and recognizing that, I eventually acquired an “extended trial” of the full Corel Painter X. *cough*.

Okay, cards on the table, I actually downloaded it without paying. I pirated it, to use the parlance of our times. And it worked great! If you’re looking over the comics you will probably notice changes in the line styles — thicknesses, softness of the edges, that sort of thing — every time I make a transition.

What happened is that I foolishly tried to download an update for my pirated software, and that update irrevocably broke it altogether. I was in a bind and still wanted to make sure I wrote a comic, so for one night only I switched to classy old Paint.NET. It actually doesn’t look too terribly out of place. [November 16, 2011]