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I’d been staving off for a while and trying to manage, but various reasons just kept piling up. Sorry guys, but this is the last comic I’ll be colouring for you all. I came into the comic not because I wanted to do a webcomic, but in order to help DZ get it off the ground. I’ve just got too much university work and other social commitments to attend to, and with the comic regularly cutting out about 5 hours’ worth of time each week, I was getting more and more stressed, to the point where I’d fairly down every time I saw Jeff had uploaded a new page for me to finish.

Not all is lost, however. I’ll still definitely be around doing various bits and pieces: Blake, stuff for the site, forum moderation (not that it really needs it that much at the moment, you guys are awesome). But the comic visuals for now are being left entirely in the capable hands of Jeff. He should hopefully be on top of it now he’s out of university, and you should check out the links page for his art galleries to see why he’s awesome at what he does.

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We’ll miss Pix’s coloring, but the man himself isn’t going anywhere. He’ll stick around as a support character. Like “Man Covered in Mustard #2″ near the bottom of the movie credits.

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As Pix has said, I will now be taking over everything in terms of each comic page. Hopefully, the transition between his and mine colouring will be smooth. Bear with me tho over the next few pages, as my colouring is a little rusty. I have to scrounge the brush tools I used for photoshop now so that tells you how long i haven’t coloured. Still miss Pix doing it however.   I miss my spare time not doing Panthera. (I kid Pix.)

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Evening all,
Since the comic post with the news about the voting system will be shunted off the front page pretty soon, here’s a quick bit of info on a couple of new things. First off, you can now vote for Panthera over at TopWebComics.com by either clicking the button to the right of the comic post. The incentive to do so is A) Because it’ll help generate traffic for us, and more views means more people on the forum for you guys to talk to, and B) You get to see the incentive mini-comic, Blake. Blake is a small three-panel strip that I started drawing up on my own, about Fletcher’s pet cat (who wasn’t even going to be in the comic until I jokingly made a quick image when I was bored a couple of years back), and it’s mainly a quick bit of comedy.

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There’s nothing funny about it. This publication is a direct breach of privacy of my life.

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Hush, you. Anyway, the comic will probably update every week, so be sure to keep voting (although you can only vote every… 16 hours or so?). I’ll be posting on the Blake thread in Forum, so that might be a good idea to sign up. =D

Oh, and Happy New Year, everyone. Have a good MMX.

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Caroline Ramsey’s drawn us up an awesome, awesome image of the guys. Check out the rest of her Blogspot page for more fantastic art, and her YouTube account for Uni-animation goodness.

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As promised, major announcement!

Panthera will now update twice weekly on alternate weeks. This means two pages every other week. Updates will be Monday on alternate weeks, and Thursday every week.

Enjoy Chapter III, and much more to come!