Yay! I finally finished page 97. I had a really hard time getting myself into it. I’ve not been feeling that great anyway, and sitting down to work has just been difficult. It spent all weekend as a thumbnail with stick figures, but I really wanted to finish it. That’s the thing. I love it when it’s finished and posted. Actually getting myself to sit down and finish it has been tough lately. Still, I’m pretty happy with how page 97 came out. I think it even looks decent in black and white. Not as vivid or anything, but it only took an hour to tone it. Compare that to five or six hours coloring. I actually wanted to finish it last night but I started feeling pretty sick in the evening. I didn’t even feel up to playing a video game (that might give you an idea how lousy I felt.)
Speaking of games, I got the Sega Genesis Collection for the Playstation 2 the other day. I’ve only had a Playstation for a couple months and didn’t actually have any games for it. This collection has a whole slew of games for only twenty bucks. I’ve never been much good at platform games like Sonic, but I’ve been playing Phantasy Star II and IV a bit. You’d think that with such primitive graphics (1991 and 1994 respectively) that they wouldn’t stand up too well, but I’m having fun with them. I’ve never really cared for random battles, though. They’re so annoying. But I like games with an interesting story. That’s the one reason I think that online RPGs don’t appeal to me. They’ve got loads of the repetitive battles (which is the part I hate) and no really story or character development to speak of so I always end up getting bored after a while. At any rate, since I wasn’t feeling that great over the weekend it was a lot easier to sit there and play a game than draw the comic. Even so, a game doesn’t have the same feeling of accomplishment as when you actually create something. To be able to go back and read my own comic and see how much I’ve improved over the last year is pretty cool. Now if I can just get back to finishing two pages a week, that’ll be something.
I likes this page too
I should confess, I was afraid a bit when you declared you intention to turn back to b/w but now I see that my fears were empty 
Thanks and keep going!
To be honest I was really worried it would look horrible to. I was very hesitant to make the move to go back to black and white, and pretty worried how everyone else would like it. But the page really did come out better than I thought it would. I’m so glad you liked it too.