The Road to Nikki Gets Nailed 3

I just want to take a moment to talk about how this comic (now comic series) came about...

As a lot of you are aware, the first part of NGN came out in 2018... And it's taken me 3 years years to finally complete it... (sorry about that!)

In that three year period, I've endured quite a lot. As some of you know, my Mother passed away a few months after the first part was released. (which may explain my hesitation at revisiting the work, not making excuses, just saying) And in very early 2019, I was fired from my job of 8 years, and almost immediately suffered a health crisis (congestive heart failure) which took over a year to bounce back from, so there's been a lot of personal stuff that's caused me to shift focus or get distracted! So it's little wonder that the first third of this comic sat on my hard drive, untouched, for so long!

And even in the last two days... I had the comic 98% done when I went to bed on Thursday (4/29/21) and when I started working on it the next day, we had a brief power failure (about a minute) due to extremely high winds, that caused me to loose the last five pages of dialog! Then, in my infinite wisdom, I decided to add a couple of images to wrap up the comic, and my render PC froze while setting up the scene! It's never frozen or crashed that way before so I don't mind saying that I had a pretty good panic while dealing with that! Even Comic Life 3 (the software I use to format and do dialog) froze for a moment while exporting the comic to .jpg format, which caused yet another minor panic! (also, of course, I noticed a few grammatical errors that needed fixing, so I had to delete, fix, and re-export the whole comic!)

But, I can honestly say that I learned a lot while making it... From the intricacies of using certain figure morphs to fix limbs and bends, to using photo editing to fix/add elements... And this comic went a long way towards informing who Nikki is as a character. Is she vindictive? Does she have a cruel side? How aggressive is she? All of those decisions helped to inform the Chaotic Neutral trouble maker we know and love!  

It's been a very long road getting here! And I am SOO VERY THANKFUL to all of you who lent your support and comments, whether you are a long time subscriber or joined recently, to make this happen! Thank You All! 

And now, you've all waited long enough...