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One year ago, on April 16th 2024, the first page of Peregrine Lake went online. One year since we first met Bev as she drove through a snow storm and said the exact thing most of us have said in that scenario.
It took so long for Peregrine Lake to get off the ground. I first announced it back in December of 2019, and originally I was going to draw it. And then the world fell apart, and I found myself with zero ability to draw it anymore. I kept kicking the idea around, wanting to move it forward when in 2023 I jokingly suggested to my friend Ethan that they could draw the comic for me.
And they said yes, they'd love to, and I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
We then spent almost a year regularly meeting, talking about my plans for the plots, the world, the characters, and all the things that would have otherwise just lived in my head. I started scripting comics, and Ethan got to work on concept art. And for most of 2023 we planned and got ready, and we hit the ground running in 2024.
And now we're here. Honestly, I love everything we've put out over the last year. Ethan's art is incredible, and tells the story in a way that I'm not sure mine would have. I love this comic, I love that you all are reading it, and I'm excited to show you what's coming next.
Because we've only just scratched the surface on how weird this is going to get.
On April 26th I'm going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI! Stop on by and say hi if you're in town!
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Got to ask here: Why was Terrence added to Bork Con staff if he was this incompetent?
Forgetting his ego issues, someone made a big mistake recommending Terrence and approving his addition. The weird thing is it doesn’t seem like anybody has any prior experience with him and someone just about had to.
Bork Con has open meetings where anyone can join general staff. It’s not an uncommon thing
Sometimes the con’s parent organization insists that you let someone be on staff even though you already have a list of ways he’s already screwed things up and caused problems and they’re going “But he means well and he’s so energetic!” so you go along with it because you’re trying to get them to agree to a bunch of cool things they have to approve like having the talking elevators speak Japanese for the weekend and you’re trying to choose your battles wisely and you have to hold your tongue when they throw him out two years later for all of the new problems he’s caused and you don’t show up at their meeting yelling “I TOLD YOU SO!” when they complain that he copied the entire organization mailing list and started using it.
It happens a lot in the business world, too. There’s the obvious cases of someone who is just borderline competent enough and just good enough at staying on the good side of the right people to remain employed for years despite being worse than having no one in the position at all. But there’s also random new hires who can make it through an interview just fine, and seem to do okay in training, but then turn out to be utterly incompetent whenever no one is actively watching them to make sure they don’t screw up. It’s actually really hard to tell who is going to work out and who isn’t until you see them work, which is why the death of the middle-manager position is so bad long-term for companies, even if they don’t realize it.