I’ve just finished the final export of the book, and it is currently being uploaded to the printer. It will take about a week for them to produce the first proof, and then a couple of days for it to be shipped to me for final approval. Assuming everything goes smoothly, it should be available for sale in about 2 weeks!

Here’s a preview:

The final page count was 86. It includes most of the comics up to Dexterity Roll - some of early stinkers were removed - and the 3-page short The Visit. The foreword is by none other than Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

My goal is to make the after-shipping cost about 20 bucks for North America. Given the printing costs, this means about $5 profit for every book sold.

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the cover designs. I ended up going with the Gordon remix:

The circuit diagrams in the background, and the PCB layout on the back were taken from my undergraduate thesis project, and were actually used to build a real, functioning robot. His name was boxy.

Sorry for the lack of updates this week - I’ve been pretty busy. I did manage to make a guest comic for another site that should show up sometime soon (I’ll link to it here). I hope to get a holiday-themed strip out sometime today or tomorrow.

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