Brides Of Babayka: Second Edition.

I guess today’s is as good a day as any to drop my first bit of big news in a series of big announcements that are coming your way over the next couple of months.

So (drum roll) one of the big things happening in 2017, is Brides Of Babayka is getting a second edition. The first edition has been around for just over three years now, and I feel now is the right time to retire it and launch a new copy. This new edition will have an all new front and back-cover, as well as some changes inside. A couple of things I’ve wanted to retouch and correct over the last three years, as it were. There’s a couple of bugs in this first edition I’ve been wanting to squash for a while now.

I don’t know how much longer this first printing of Brides Of Babayka is gonna be available to buy. It might be a month or two… it might be sooner… it might be later… but once it’s gone, it’s gone. I’ve still got some copies for any readers who have been flirting with the idea of getting a sign and sketch in copy off me from my online Babayka-Lives store.

So if you’re a collector of first editions, or enough of a Babayka-Lives fan, that it would bug you that you never snapped up the chance to own the first edition when you had the opportunity, you still have a limited time to do so, but be warned, the first edition’s days are numbered. I might put aside a few copies for hardcore collectors down the line, but this most likely will be your last chance to own Brides Of Babayka in its first edition incarnation for retail price, before it’s replace by the second edition. As always, you can find details of how to pick up your copy on Babayka-Lives.

It would be arrogant to imply I think a first edition of Brides Of Babayka might ever be worth something in years to come. That said, this is the first edition of it… and your chance to own a copy is coming to an end very soon. So if you are an first edition junkie… act now, before it’s too late.

Email me at the usual email address if you have an questions or inquires about buying a first edition copy.

Mini-Break.

I know after last week’s cliffhanger, a break in the action is the last thing most people want… but I’m afraid we must squeeze in a quick one before the summer holiday. Give readers a chance to speculate over who it is the strangers have found hanging in the barn.

Enjoy this slightly S&M themed promo above until then.

The Plan.

I’ll happily admit I suck at getting the start date of Babayka-Lives summer breaks right. While year one the webcomic had no break over the summer months, and year two I pretty much timed it perfectly… Last year I screwed up, however, and it didn’t start until the summer was half over, and this year, it looks like I’ve time it wrong again, and the break’s gonna come too soon this year. So to combat this problem, I think after this weekend’s easter instalment (which is like a mini-cliffhanger itself), I’m gonna throw in a quick couple of weeks break. Nothing major, just a bit of a rest until the 6th of May. And then we’ll pick up from there. I always try and aim for June to be the start of the summer break, and doing this will get us pretty close to that.

If the two week break, and the fact we’re getting close to the summer break bums you out a little, fear not. Unlike the last three summer breaks, I plan to make a couple of big announcements while we’re all resting in the sun this year. Firstly, I’ll finally come clean on the secret project I’ve been working on these last several months. I promise the time for revealing all is very close. Also, I might try and find some time this summer to make some kind of digital treat solely for those that do make any Babayka-Lives fan-art. Something I can just email people as a thank you for showing the series some love.

Speaking of fan-art, I’m also flirting with setting out a little challenges, if any readers want to have a bit of fun. Hopefully it won’t be too much of a spoiler, if I reveal that one of the last things to happen in Brides Of Babayka, is Vera announces they’ve had an enquiry from a Canadian female hockey team about visiting the hotel. Babayka Land then opens with the scene of the last surviving member of the hockey team being chase across the countryside and caught by Babayka. I have no plans at this time to ever show what happened between Book One and Book Two, or what horrors befell those poor hockey players. Needless to say it was probably grisly… I’m leaving that one to fan-fiction for now. Should anyone be brave enough to wanna fill in that bit of story themselves with some fan-art or fan-fiction, though… please do. I’d love to see it. I will honestly try and make something digital and exclusive in the coming months, just for those that do create anything, I promise.

And if anyone does take me up on my challenge, please be sure to Note or Email me about your pin-up, etc, so I’m aware of it, and I will check it out. Or let me know if folks have any questions.

So that’s the plan and how things look right now. Be sure to tune in tomorrow for a mini-cliffhanger at Babayka-Lives.com

Fan-Art Request: Update.

A big thank you and shout out to Monica (A.K.A. Pixiefairydust) from Deviantart for stepping up to the Babayka-Lives fan-art challenge and doing this awesome piece you see above.  

I think it’s a scene depicting Alina and Babayka cleaning up after another bachelor has been dispatch back at the hotel. The little details like the bloody handprint on the bed-board, or the washing bowl of bloody water I think are very cool. I love how sultry the Bride looks, and how creepy and otherworldly she got Babayka looking, too.  

It’s also just very cool to see another artist having a go at doing my characters.

I strongly recommend people give Monica’s DA page a look. If only for the sexy Power-Ranger (sorry… Super Serious Sentai) booty in a recent strip she’s been doing, which I’ve been enjoying.

I’ve also started a Babayka-Lives fan-art folder on my DA page that’s looking a little underfed for any and all future fan-art.