Yeah. So what's going to happen after my possible graduation (or expulsion) from graduate school in the University of Arizona?

My plan as follows:
Use my little wad of green stuff and start a studio in China, SJZ, Hebei. Granted, that little wad of cash would not even last anywhere in Singapore or the US. But in China, I can actually have a studio operating for about a year. You heard right. 1 whole year. If we can make 15-20 pages a month, that means we could be cooking about 300 pages.

Now the reason why I'm deciding to go all out on this is because I want to give it a real shot. I'm 25 and I've done nothing too great in my entire life except excelling in gauges they call exams. I got really sick of that. I also got rather stagnant sitting in lab cooking statistics on my ever increasing data set on tomato seedlings. Sure, tomatoes are cool when I eat them, but not exactly cool enough.

Most importantly, Purgatory did save me from sinking in depression. When I go to conventions and people ask me what the series is about, I feel alive. I felt that I didn't do enough justice for them in the prologue (the set you see in SmackJeeves). I will note down the shortcomings I've identified:

- no central/main character of memorable design or personality
- not enough capitalization on the big ships
- too fast paced, paneling needs work
- a lot of cutting corners (I identified a lot of errors)

Now all this is a result of:

- me working on this part-time...no. I have to work on this full time. I have to live it, literally, to produce anything that's admirable in quality
- me not there supervising my artist (she actually ran away)
- me not being an inspirational figure (so your boss is a QQ-icon on your instant messenger chat window...how inspirational is that?)

This will be remedied by:

- setting up a real shop
- I will live in that shop
- with my partners, weeks at a time, like bakuman...I will also help with any stuff such as food, English language etc
- WORKING ON IT ALL THE TIME~~

1 year, starting from August. As of now, it's a bit of stagnancy and hiatus. I will try not to get on my professor's bad side. I will do quality experiments (I think I still am). I will attend Baycon 2009 and AX2009 and meet more people. And hopefully I will, in those days, come up with enough Neemus (paged and paneled Manga sketches) to start a new series. Right now, I have two ideas in mind. Both will introduce Turfan Wyrm (at long last). I've been working on it on scratch paper when I think the Prof's not snooping around. A boy with the touch of divine fire. Heh.

I will welcome any flaming, criticisms and conservative ideas about my brazen gamble.

And btw:

Want publicity? Gimme a note or link to your comic/manga series. Good comics would be linked here: [link]