The Leaning Tower of Damocles

Finally, some more work done…

Well, this took longer to get around to than I thought it was going to. It seems site updates are going to go in bursts, but they will continue to go forward (at least as long as I do).

The major things that will be noticeable are:

the Miscellaneous Links section is as up-to-date as it can be (from experience, I’d say that’ll last about two months…);

the Chronology has some further additions and is also now pretty much up-to-date — I’ll need to check a few things for consistency; I also thought I’d add the original publication dates for all the Crusher Joe novels (since I’d located that info), just to put things in further context (this is still hardly everything Takachiho published…);

the Novels section has now been split into two pages, like all the other DP version core essays — there is simply too much now to load everything onto one (and I should have done this at least a couple years ago);

and I’ve added the text and pictures for a presentation I’d put together for an event, back at the AnimeCentral 2004 convention, to mark the DP 25th Anniversary; I couldn’t go myself (partly because I’d just been in Chicago a couple weeks earlier), so Matthew Wade was kind enough to be my proxy and show this thing; I thought it might be of interest to put it on the site.

There are a couple of technical difficulties I have to deal with in the stuff I just posted, but otherwise I’ll be moving on to other things. I have work planned next on the Fanart section and the “Daughters of DP” essay; there are also many items I need to add in the Curiosities and Figures sections. I hope it will be much less than a month before some of that happens…

Warren comes to DA

For those of you who like his work and want to see what he’s up to, Adam Warren has finally gotten on the ‘Net.

He opened a DeviantArt account on 6 February (which has already passed 31,000 hits), where he is posting unpublished work, commission sketches, roughs for upcoming publications, items from the past of interest, and so on.

There’s no new DP project in the works, but you can see a number of relevant pieces that he’s done posted at the site. [Note: you do not need to join DeviantArt to view the galleries there.]

Site Updates

The most noticeable work I’ve finished is that I finally got the Chronology up-to-date. There are some details that need to be fixed or added, but at least I’ve finally gotten to the end of 2006.

There are also some additions in the Novels and Miscellaneous Links pages. I have a little bit of revision I want to make yet to the essay on the Novels page. Also, the whole thing is now so long that I’ve decided to break it into two pages, like the other core essays on the other versions. Those pages are going to get some going-over as well.

The rest of what I’ve done is on less visited pages, but the project of rescanning all the crummy images from the early years has begun.