And thus concludes Chapter Five. As usual, I’ll be skipping a usual Wednesday post between now and the beginning of next chapter in order to thumbnail it. (The story is entirely written, but I only do thumbnail breakdowns right before I start.) See you then!

Another big panel with Fink’s ship. Boy, I’m gonna be glad when they actually get on the ship so I can stop drawing it. I should have given Fink a submarine so I’d only have to draw a bit of a corning tower peeking out in each panel.

I know it’s been a while, but here’s the first page of chapter 5. I’d taken off a month from Oyster War partially just to allow me to thumbnail out this chapter, but also to get this new dedicated oysterwar.com website together. After a fair amount of reading, soliciting opinions via Twitter, and a few false starts, I settled on WordPress (which I know well from years of maintaining benzilla.com) with the Webcomic plugin/Inkblot theme combo.  A lot of folks seem to really like Comicpress as well, but it seemed to me that Webcomic/Inkblot was a bit easier to get up and running without too much tinkering. I think I’ve been through the site pretty thoroughly, but if you spot any hiccups, please let me know.

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