Autothysis

Back from the sudden unplanned hiatus and finally moving out to show the comic’s antagonist show his true colors.

Well these past weeks i learned some stuff: i seriously underestimated my boss’s workload. Doing his job for a couple of weeks was exhausting. Also that double shifts are a pain to go trough. And finally that my new neighbor hates my guts and is making me really uncomfortable.

NixieSeal

Well, uh, that sure was creepy!
- Avencri
  
  I’ll take the compliment.
  - gynjer
    
    You have a good track record with your landlord, cuz u have been a renter 4 five years. The noob is the one who should go……unless youwant a change.
    - Avencri
      
      The problem is that the landlord doesn’t want to loose income. She will try to keep us both even if she asks silly stuff to me to appease the woman below.
      - feartheswans
        
        If she doesn’t want to loose Income, then she’s going to have to keep you both happy, not just the woman below you. You were the one there the Longest after all. She should also be asking the woman down stairs silly things to appease you too!
      - pride-and-parliament
        
        You mean Avencri should be complaining to the landlady about the woman below his apartment? I don’t know, fighting fire with fire might just escalate the situation.
      - Feartheswans
        
        Yes and no. If there was no Problem before this person moved in below him, the it is clear where the problem is. He should emphasize that there was no problem before the person moved in and there is no problem with the other neighbors.
      - pride-and-parliament
        
        Oh, I see, he should complain about the complaining. Hmm. That might work, but it might make him look like a complainer. And I don’t think she’d evict anybody over that… I think it would be better to try to reason with the lady below his apartment. Maybe she’ll compromise.
Zui

Great to see the comic is on again. Love the sudden thickening in the plot. Very sorry to here about the rough time you’ve had though. Hopefully things ‘ll clear up from here on.
- Avencri
  
  Hope they resolve. I am considering moving out though.
http://www.facebook.com/jack.winberry Jack Winberry

now we see what the bad guy’s up to, and it looks like they’re at a disadvantage, especially now that those demon-things aren’t cooperating with them anymore
Anthony Wolf

Well, This is interesting. Also Welcome back from your Hiatus. If you dont mind me askin, Why does your Neighbor hates your guts?
- Avencri
  
  Because she is lying to the landlord about her allergies (one of my sisters is a medic and she is pretty sure her symptoms are not what happens when you have an allergy to cats. I also have a friend that IS allergic to cat and he said the same thing about the symptoms) as well as giving us a rather hostile feeling all around while putting a saint facade when the landlord is around. Just to prove a point… i have lived here for 5 years with no incidents whatsoever… then this woman moves in back January and all this happens.
  - Crabby
    
    Not only am I allergic to cats, but I also have mild asthma that prolonged exposure to cats tends to trigger. I didn’t know about the allergy until after our family got our first cat. That didn’t stop me from getting another cat after our first one passed away though. I deal with it just like I have to deal with any number of things in my life because the positives far exceed the negatives. Tell your neighbor to suck it up and get herself a nice loving cat for herself. Maybe then she’ll learn to appreciate them a little better.
    - Avencri
      
      Mind if i ask what your symptoms are?
      - Crabby
        
        Mainly just itchy, watery eyes. The nose gets a little stuffy and runny. I usually get hives on the arm, but it really isn’t all that severe. Then there’s the trouble breathing as well.
        
        It mainly comes from direct contact, or from contacting something that a cat has had direct contact with. Though one of my friends has several cats, about 6 or 8 I think (I’m not certain that I’ve actually seen them all. Just the ones that tend to be more social), and just being in his house is enough to trigger symptoms.
        
        I’m not certain what your neighbor’s symptoms are, but some people tend to be more sensitive than others or have more severe reactions. But there’s not really too many more symptoms that somebody with cat allergies might have. *Shrugs*
      - Avencri
        
        Swollen legs. I have never heard or read of that reaction towards cats before. It is not even a rash. just swollen. My sister (who is a medic by the way) says that it sounds more like a circulatory problem. Yet i am getting the blame.
      - Crabby
        
        Swollen legs? Is that all? Tell me that can’t be all. If that’s all she has and she’s blaming it on a cat, she needs her head checked out more than anything.
      - IceWing
        
        While sometimes the allergy symptoms do depend on the individual cat’s fur texture, I have never seen swollen legs without a rash as a reaction to anything furry. Swollen legs can be caused by just about anything, and even if the cat rubbed directly on their legs there should be other symptoms. Nothing there indicates that the cat is the culprit.
  - Feartheswans
    
    Doesn’t matter if the landlord allows pets. If she doesn’t like it she can move somewhere else.
Graphite

so that’s where you’ve been, sorry to hear about that
Digizaruk

Yay! Update!I’ve been waiting for quite some time now, to see where this one was going to take us.

Also, I’m currently writing an entry for the Valentine’s day contest that takes place in Neon City, and I was wondering if there was anyway I could find out more about the layout of the city. Like if there was a park in the city, or even just a tree… We haven’t seen many of those.
- Avencri
  
  Hey. I haven’t addressed much of the city layout until now but it will be important for the rest of the story. Neon City for the most part is all buildings and lights. But there is a gigantic park in the middle of the city full of trees. There are also giant tree roots that disrupt the streets or the buildings every now and then, i´ll explain those in future pages quite soon by the way.
  - Digizaruk
    
    Yay! ^ – ^
  - digizaruk
    
    Actually, I just took a look back at my story, after a little while, what with having not been able to work on it, due to real life stuffs, and I noticed that I had already written the park in the middle of the town. Quite the lucky guess, no?
The_Rippy_One

Well, I do like that shadow being thing in the last panel, it is very cool. Sorry that things haven’t been going well – were you at least well paid for this madness at work?
- Avencri
  
  Same salary. To be honest i don’t mind having rough schedules from time to time. After spending a year and a half unemployed i am grateful to actually have a job.
  - The_Rippy_One
    
    Shame – though, what your saying about work is absolutely true.
Shadowfire

Good to see you’re back. I was worried you died on us or something.
- Avencri
  
  You made me realize that i have not a plan in case of sudden death…
  - meh
    
    might wanna fix that- have a successor or something? lol
meh

well glad to see you’re back, me, being paranoid, was thinking the worst had happened (you don’t wanna know), but its good that everything is alright, sorry to hear about the workload and the neighbor though. Nice shift in the story line, it’s getting really interesting now
- Avencri
  
  To be honest i feel afraid of reading the comments when i hit a bump in the schedule.
  - meh
    
    meh, so long as it doesnt take 6 months for the page to update you’ll be just fine from ultra rude comments, at least from me
pride-and-parliament

This is so disgusting it’s funny.
- ravor9933
  
  Or so funny it’s disgusting
  - pride-and-parliament
    
    Or both… Whatever it is, I like it!
    - meh
      
      its so disgfun, its nyusting
      - pride-and-parliament
        
        It’s so fungusting it’s Disney. wait wut
      - meh
        
        O.O
      - pride-and-parliament
        
        D:
ravor9933

I will always be a reader of your work but please, whenever you hit or expect to hit a bump in the road, can you post a message or some sort of update about the fact that you will be busy or can’t do much work (maybe with a little sketch) so we don’t keep wondering
- meh
  
  agreed
XMinusOne

Good to see your comic return. I figured RL was was to blame for the hiatus. Bummer on the increased workload and that psycho neighbor of yours. That swollen leg symptom of hers sounds like a circulation problem, not an allergy to animal dander. I’d be darned if I’d move and disrupt my life for that nutjob.
meh

so was the self destruction neccessary? and if so, why not have a count down like all the automated technilogical ones? [computer voice] this message will self destruct in 3, 2, 1, KAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/BretABemis Bret Bemis

Oh man, so that’s what was up. Sorry, dude, but thanks for giving the restarting of this comic your all.
Johnny

You should put a third option at your poll;

MORE FUCKING UPDATES.
- meh
  
  hey avencri has a busy life, as you can clearly see in the summary below the page, patience is a virtue and all that stuff, right?