The long hot summer is almost over, and I’m ready to return to Moon Town. A new strip will be going up this Tuesday, Aug 3 2010, and to reward your extraordinary patience, I present a preview of the next strip, above.

I may only be able to get one strip a week for a bit, but I should at least be able to get you that, and maybe more. We shall see. Anyway, thanks again for your interest in Moon Town and your patience this summer. Seeya Tuesday!

WishTales needs your help! We still have tons of comics available for your summer reading pleasure.

If you have kids, you want to buy these books. They are high-quality, professionally printed comics, appropriate for all ages – kids won’t be bored by them and adults will love them too. It will give the kids something to do on those rainy days when you are sick of hearing the constant dim of video games and TV.

But even if you don’t have kids, but you love great stories and characters, you will want to buy these books. Our mission is the same as Pixar’s – great stories, great characters. And who can’t believe in that mission?

However, the trust is that we can’t keep going like this. We need you to help us get the word out: we have a library of books for sale, and we need people to buy them or WishTales can’t survive.

Go to the WishTales store and get yourself some great comics. Support WishTales. Help ensure that we can provide more great books in the future!  And remember, we ship our comics out of a central warehouse, so you can combine orders to save on shipping!

In today’s Marooned, you will find several artifacts from several different comics (including something from Moon Town) buried in the strip. Tom’s running a little contest – can you find and identify all seven treasures? Go have a look and see how you do!

So, I have to write one of those posts I hate writing. Time for me to evoke The H Word… Hiatus.

You’ve noticed that Moon Town has been languishing in Non Update Land. I got a new job at work, and although it’s much better for me and I’m much happier, it is much more demanding. Until I get my hands around this new job, Moon Town is going to have to wait.

During this hiatus, I will also be catching up with a few things. Poor Brock Heasley has been waiting for about half a year for my SuperFogeys Origins story on The Thrice Evil, so it’s high time I got it for him. Without the constant need for more Moon Town strips, I’m betting I can finally honor this obligation.

And last but not least, I’ll also be working on a little strip that has a decent chance with one of the syndicates. I can’t say more about it except it features a kid and a mythical animal, and I love it to death. (BTW, that’s an intentionally pixellated version of the characters, above. I’ll publish more about this when I can.) It’s sort of refreshing – each one of these strips takes me only about an hour, where a typical Moon Town strip can take me 6 to 8 hours. Innnnteresting.

Anyway, I still appreciate your faith and attention, and trust me when I say Moon Town will return in a couple of months or so… perhaps the week of Aug 2.

Thank you for your patience.

Hard to believe, but May 10 marks a YEAR since I first began telling the Exciting Moon Town Saga online.

As I continue to struggle out from under a load of Too Much Stuff that’s keeping me from Moon Town, and as I close in on 100 Moon Town strips, I did want to take a moment out to thank you all for coming along for the ride. I look forward to sharing more of the story with you soon.

Keep the faith, my brethren. And sistren. And Happy Birthday, Moon Town.

We have some new books available in the WishTales store. If you haven’t been by to check it out lately, your bookshelf may be missing some great new additions!

Notable recent arrivals include Tom Dell’Aringa’s “A Tale of Two Robots” and “I, Asimov”, and Eddie Pittman’s preview issue of “Red’s Planet”.

TIP: We actually have these titles in stock, and ship out from the same central warehouse here at WishTales World Headquarters, so you can save money by combining orders to save on shipping! Seeya at the store!

Those of you who read comics regularly already know tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. Those of you who are new to the comics scene may not know it, but there are free comics available for you in your local comic shops.

But as WishTales will be participating, you can also get your very own free PDF versions of three of WishTales’ titles:

- Eddie Pittman’s preview issue of Red’s Planet

- Steve Ogden’s first chapter of Moon Town

- Tom Dell’Aringa’s Tale of Two Robots

Keep your eye on WishTales’ download page. The FREE COMICS will be available from 12:00AM – 11:59PM May 1, 2010. Enjoy!

For those of you wondering how SPACE went, Tom Dell’Aringa has put up a really nice report at our WishTales site. That will give you a good feel for the show until I can get dug out from under my Huge Pile of Work and put my report up, hopefully sometime soon. Meanwhile, enjoy!

Sorry, everyone… my time is not my own, temporarily. Moon Town will be missing in action for a few days. Hopefully will return next week.

We regret the inconvenience.

-The Management