AT LAST…
“…MY ARM IS COMPLETE AGAIN.”
Hello and welcome to the new HEART SHAPED SKULL! I think it’s version 4.0 or something… Maybe 5.0… Whatever, what I do know is that this is the biggest site update ever, all kinds of large, and way, way overdue.
Come, let me count the new:
1. She’s blinking again! That’s pretty good, eh?
2. HEART SHAPED RADIO is back! Until the company hosting it gets sued to death!
3. There’s a BIO page!
4. And a CHARACTER page!
5. And a tiny little dollhouse version of Sera’s STORY so far!
6. A swanky, near-professional-looking STORE! And yes, I am taking commissions at the moment. My Wolverine is to die for.
7. Kids today with their slide whistles and hula hoops and social bookmarking… GET OFF MY LAWN! And take your “RSS feeds” with you!
8. A fan art HALL OF INFAMY!
9. THIS!
10. Miscellaneous other things!
11. Does Sera look different to you? I can’t even tell anymore…
12. That burrito from earlier ain’t sittin’ right…
13. …
14. …
15. OH YES! …the webcomic! Almost forgot… Serenity Rose, local witch, is returning to web-comic form exactly one month from now via Serenity Rose Vol. 2: Goodbye, Crestfallen! Her sequential-type adventures began in the inter-aether, if you remember, and to the inter-aether she has returned – for 120 pages of spookycute (and not-so-cute) mayhem doled out over the next 12-14 months or so. The plan is to put out at least two pages a week, but I can’t promise paid work won’t get in the way… What I can promise is that I won’t leave you hanging mid-scene or anything dreadful like that. You guys have waited way too long for this story, and I can’t wait to show it off.
Witches and monsters and goths and punks. G-men and night terrors, badly misshapen conjurings and hideous facial disfigurements… Massive absurdity, eccentric behavior, and bloody, bloody horror… And a sarcastic little introvert just like you and me, right in the middle of it all.
And goblins demanding spare change for tacos.
It all starts on March 14th.
If all goes well, the book will be published in dead plant form in early-to-mid 2009, long after all you lucky internetty sods have already had your big 120-page eye-binge. But we’ll just have to wait and see, eh?
Thanks again to everyone who’s waited so patiently so far… You guys deserve the coolest Serenity adventure there ever was, and that’s what I aim to give. Right after I take a nice, eight-day nap on the floor here.
-a
Site: Epic.
Essrose2: Explosions of excitement.
Brain: !!!O_o!!!
Keep up the great work! I can’t wait for more!
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EEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!
at last i can post comments other than as “anonymous”. huzzah. and HUZZAH for the webcomicy thingie as well!
tho, i hate to be the barer of various parade rainings, but this new site layout is totally not aligning for me. probably because i am a slack jawwed yokel who still uses IE6. basically what i’m seeing is blinky sera, “goodbye crestfallen, a whole buncha sidebar, and THEN BELOW the sidebar (after the myspace and search boxes), i get the bottom half of the “story, characters, archive, first, chipz” links and then the contenty stuff. i’m really, really really retarded when it comes to coding stuff, but there’s GOTTA be someway to fix this screwy alignment crap for us IE users, near exinct tho we may be.
i’m just jealous of the peoples who get to view it in its intended glory is all.
This is awesome. I love the new design, and I love the new designs of all the characters. However, I must note that the new site runs a little slow. That just might be my old as hell computer though. I’m so excited for new Serenity Rose! 120 pages is a hell of a lot to give out free, but I know you’ll won’t disappoint.
Is the new comic gonna have the color splashes like the original webcomic, or is it gonna be all black and white like the printed comics?
ALSO: More Tess is needed. She is sexy and everyone needs more batshit Redheads around.
This is amazing!
Hey williamthebloody! It’s nice to see you all un-anonymoused. Or as un-anonymous as someone named “williamthebloody” can be, I guess…
About your IE6 problem: ACK! It’s exactly what I feared…. The problem is this: the new HSS was coded on a Mac, because that’s what I have. And since Microsoft hasn’t supported IE on the Mac since version 5.2 (or thereabouts), it’s hard to test things properly. All I could do was test the site in Firefox, Safari, and Opera, then ask a couple of my more “John Hodgman-ny” friends to check it out in IE. Their versions were all more recent than 6, though.
I’m not exactly sure how to solve this “old IE” problem, but if any web design experts out there have some ideas, I’d love to hear them!
And Malia… Good to see you here, too! The site is pretty image intensive, so it might run a little slow, especially on older computers. Sorry about that… Is it totally unbearable?
I’d love to do the color splashes again, but we’ll see if I have the time…
Awesome… AWESOME!!!
I got an small urge to buy a shirt. ^^
And I really look forward reading the continue to Serenity rose. The comic has a little part of what made me draw again.
“Does Sera look different to you? I can’t even tell anymore…”
Um, yeah. She’s smiling. It’s kind of creepy. ^_^
I just loaded the site up in IE6, and I noticed three problems:
The images in that menu to the left of the comic area have gaps between ’em. Changing the CSS for those images to have zero border and margin might help, but I couldn’t tell you without trying it myself, and I have to leave for work in a few minutes.
Second, the menu images and the background for the newsposts aren’t transparent. This is because IE6 doesn’t support transparent PNG files. But the site is still perfectly usable without the transparency, so I wouldn’t worry about it. (Doesn’t help that the only “solution” to this one is to use transparent GIFs instead, robbing Firefox, Opera and presumably Safari users of the shiny alpha blending.)
Last, the comic drops down below the menu. If I had to guess, I’d say that the extra space on those menu images made the menu + comic area wider than its container, so it word-wrapped down below the menu. If I’m right, fixing the first problem will solve this one as well. If not, adding a few pixels to the container, assuming it doesn’t break the layout, might fix this.
But really, the best solution is for people to stop using IE6. Firefox and Opera are free, more secure, and generally render the web better. (Except for those sites that are designed to work with the rendering bugs in IE6.)
Also, EEEEEEE! You, sir, have made my damn month.
Sweet Jeebus, look at all the STUFF! The new layout is blowing my mind; I want to click on everything at once!
I’m all sorts of excited about Vol. 2. I think I’ll just pitch a tent and camp out here until March 14th, is that cool?
It’s not a huge problem, just one to note a little. If you ever figure out a way to simplify it, I would recommend it, but if it is too much trouble, I would forget about it. Everything on the site looks so pretty, I would hate to see that ruined. And I’m trying it on a school computer, and it loads much faster. So it’s not a big issue. (It wouldn’t be the same without the Blinking Sera!)
And as a by the way issue, I love the new art style. I think it will attract a lot more of the non comic reading teen girl audience as the art is more feminine-y. Or something. I don’t know how to explain it. All that matters is that it looks great.
well, you’ve got me seriously considering a browser upgrade to the latest version of IE, at the very least. there is one other site i enjoy which has similar alignment issues for me and she hasnt gotten anywhere with it. so, it might just be in my own best interest to go down that road.
Oh….my….god. I love the new site. I want to design a site that is as pretty as this one, someday…just pretty.
Hmmm, Internet Explorer is the webdesigner’s bane. Internet Explorer, especially older versions, defeats the purpose of the W3 standards. IE does all kinds of evil things to the most carefully thought out layouts.
This website is helpful, in documenting IE bugs, and for advice on how to fix said bugs:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/
Williamthebloody? Switch to firefox….please….its free, and worth it.
Malia? More Tess? More Kelton…mostly because I identify with his character somewhat.
Kelton is me in a good/productive mood. Yeah, I know.
HAPPY FACE!!!
website large enough to see!!!(reading the updates might now be a pleasurable experience)
Sera no longer looks like a child!!!(still no eyerows!! love it!!)
amazing webite features!!(birthday massacre on the radio!!)
now it’s all free for us writhing masses!!!!!!(FREEEEEE!!!)
heartshaped fanboy shirts!! (though im not a fan of strappy tops)
EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!!
OBLIGATORY 1337 5|>34|<
ZOMFGROFLMAO w00t
i think i need to lie down
a short bow
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you’re the bestest artist ever in the whole universe yayayayay
Meh. I don’t see the forums anywhere, but its good to see new sera. Now, I can continue with my jahovah whitness-like conversion. Seriously, I have been trying to convert almost all spookypeople in my school to sera. Unfortunately, its mostly been a pick up line for girls mostly and its been ending in pepper spray and/or restraining order/report to the principal for having “unapproiate paraphenalia” in school.
But still, its nice to see something new Mr. A.
-Esequiel “evilmidget” Gonzales
“Meh. I don’t see the forums anywhere, but its good to see new sera.”
The forum is under the “FANS” link now. I just combined the fan art and forum into one section, is all. (And, of course, the direct link still works.)
Coming Spring 2010 – Serenity Rose Vol 3: “Inappropriate Paraphernalia!”
I am bursting with joy at the prospect of new Serenity Rose comics. I do have one question/request. While I assume that writing this comic and working on paid jobs simultaneously is time-consuming enough, is there any chance of the Vicious Whispers advice column making a return? I always enjoyed that, personally.
OHGOD.
YES!
I cannot wait to go shrieking out into the world, waving this bulletin around like the Holy Grail (which it is) and share it with all whom I encounter.
Yes, random strangers included.