the end – a space opera by august & shay brown

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Our update schedule is once a month on the 15th. We will post an entire scene, which are generally between three and seven pages.

Our next batch will drop on May 15th, 2026!

And with today’s update, Chapter 24 is wrapped, and so is Volume 04! I cannot tell you all enough how excited I am to be working on Chapter 25, but I also need to take a minute to go over a small scheduling thing regarding next month’s update.

So, whenever we start a new book, we usually do a short recap chapter from one character’s POV as a framing device. They’re informative, set things up, check in with at least one character on what the general vibe is about current comic events and, most importantly, they wrap at around twelve to fifteen pages. Chapter 25 was supposed to be like this, but it sort of got away from us and will actually just be a normal sized chapter, that is currently, according to my thumbnails, going to end up being 44 pages total.

That amount of pages is a really long real-time commitment, so we are actually going to be upping the batch page/update count so we can get it all done in eight months. Bigger batches means more work, and more work means that I don’t actually think that I am going to be able to get the first 6 page batch done in time for next month’s update–I still have a bunch of important characters to design on top of the ones I have already done character sheets for, and I can’t even start the cover for CH25 without having that design work done. Instead, we’ll be taking a “break” in where we are going to post both the Vol. 05 cover and the chapter cover for CH25 in May on the 15th. I’ll still be working on actual pages the entire time, and my hope is that when June 15th rolls around, I’ll have the next batch done and the batch after it either mostly or completely done as well so I’m not rushing 24/7. Summer vacation is coming and I am always slower in the summer because we are parents and our kid is home, so I want to have at least a one month buffer in the can so I don’t burn out.

So, to reiterate, there will be an update next month, but it will just be the book cover and the chapter cover. Pages will resume in their normal format in June, and then batches are going to mostly be 6 or more pages for the next 8 months before we move on to Chapter 26.

MY CURRENT TO-DO LIST

I’ve knocked out a bunch of stuff on my to-do list, but I’ve also added a bunch, so here’s what I’m currently up to, as well as what I’ve recently completed:

Do character design work for humanoid characters in CH25.
~~Do thumbnails breakdown for CH25 for patrons.~~
Draw CH25 cover.
Start first batch of pages for CH25.
~~Do character design work for Bossy, Lancer and Snirt.~~
~~Ink the final batch of pages for CH24.~~
~~Colour the final batch of pages for CH24.~~
Reformat the first ebook with the updated art and extras and find a home for it.
~~Do the cover for Book 05!~~
~~Chapter 25 planning with Shay~~
~~Thumbnailing~~ and storyboarding (like 50% done storyboarding) for chapter 25

WHAT’S NEW ON PATREON

If you would like to support us and help us make sure that we are updating every month with a full batch, Patreon is a really easy place to do it! Our site currently does not host adds (and also never will!) because they are essentially worthless, and also ugly as hell.

As a reminder, we have decided to treat Patreon with a ‘pay what you want’ model–all paid tiers get access to the same paid content, and you can pick whichever tier you like and use it like a recurring tip. I’ll also post free content occasionally!

Here are the things that I have added to Patreon since our previous update! I will clearly mark content that is free for everyone to read–you don’t have to be a member to access it, but if you subscribe even just on the free tier, you’ll get notifications for future free content.