xeno has made his first editing pass, finding typos in the following pages:

signal -5-
convergence -9-
convergence -10-
zoo -5-
briefing -1-
recon -3-
recon -6-

19:27 <xeno> and done.
19:28 <xeno> well, up to suction -4- anyway, which appears to be all the further your rerererererererere-edit has made it

Convergence -9- is typo-free. The problem with it? It was NEVER UPLOADED. I didn't notice, you didn't notice (or if you did, you didn't email me!). xeno noticed.

Unlike the first edition, in which any and all page changes were line-itemed into the metadata and the page was versioned, I made all changes to the original files and did a mass upload of all pages. The end result is that typos are magically Fixed, and I only have to muck with the CMS for this piece of paperwork. Efficient!

No offense to the man, but it's possible there are still typos lurking around somewhere.* If you find one, contact me ASAP.

In other news, covers for Chapter One and Chapter Two are done; the cover characters for Chapter Three have gone back to the drawing board, while Chapter Four has a background and Incursion still needs to be produced.

These are wraparound covers, in the style of the first version of the first edition cover. I still need to work out the bleed space - whenever this thing gets to hardcopy, the first couple of issues (Chapters) might be a bit weird at the spine. Since it's all textural instead of a flat color, the bleed/trim will be a bit more obvious. The cover for Incursion is going to need some thought, as 190-odd pages means a spine, not staples.

Here's Chapter One - Captains Andreissen and Polaski on the back, Thad and Alias on the front:

And here's Chapter Two - Tantek and Xand on the back, Raven and West on the front:

All linework has been digitally re-inked. It's a technique I've used on bits and pieces of comic work for cleanup purposes - while was perfected on other projects, this is the first use of the technique for ATC. Given how much of a timesink it is, I'll be using it for Covers Only.

Three more covers (9 more bits of linework), the web redesign (which could include a Mobile version, as ATC looks like poop on the iPhone), some CG work... and then things will get rolling again.

20090801 - on additional "edit." -I- has been peeled out of the first scene of Chapter One. It's -I- again. This matches with the impending -II-, which doesn't fit with the scene next to it at all.

* xeno is very good at what he does. What makes me suspicious is the idea that I could bust out over 180 pages without screwing up more. I don't recall the first edition flowing out this easily.

Short form:

The shirt decal appears in 44 more pages of The Dualist, in approximately 70 panels. All pages require the same formatting work that the first half of the book has received.

Said decal also appears on 23 pages and in 40 panels of the first part of Transitional Voices. TV is already the correct aspect ratio and has already been extensively fixed. While it may still be subject to a rewrite, the decal swap can be done separately.

That's a sum total of 67 pages and approximately 110 panels that need adjustment, in addition to the raft of other work that needs to be done to The Dualist (and possibly TV).

In terms of page count, this is by far the costliest © error of my entire body of work.

There's a chance I may push through the TV corrections before I start on the second half of TD2E. After all, it's "only" 23 pages... and when The Dualist is Done, I'll hopefully be Current on projects, instead of having More TV Rework ahead of me.

I do regardless - there'll be a final pass over the text after TD2E is complete, and the cover's going to be changed to match the stuff I'm brewing for the TD2E cover replacements. Those are givens and - relatively speaking - aren't much of a challenge.

Recon has four new pages and new CG. What used to be suction has been split into Light (a bit of new stuff) and Suction (minor new stuff).

Right, that took long enough.

Recon was the bottleneck - while all the formatting on everything was done awhile back, the new CG and the new illustrations just kind of sat there on the "to do" list for a good long time while I worked the kinks out of everything else. The new linework and new panels of recon -3- - the biggest whack of new art for the chapter - didn't manifest until last weekend. This past week was spent working on a commission and doing the final once-over, with recon -9- finally succumbing late wednesday.

186 pages complete, with at least 158 remaining. I say "at least," as that's the number of first edition pages that still need to be reformatted. There's still the introduction to the second half ("Expulsion"), which will be 6-10 pages, and I may yet decide to add a couple of pages to what'll be chapter Seven (was six) to clear up some storytelling problems. So 158 + 6-14 == 164-172 pages remaining.

Either way, the second edition is over the hump for page count, but not for drama - not by a long shot. While grinding out the first half was a matter of "nose to the grindstone" with a move thrown in for flavor, the second half has some serious crazy lurking on the horizon. More on that when it breaks - things are a strained status quo at the moment, and I intend to make the most of it.

To that end, it's on to covers, editing, assembley, a new version of the website, and population of that new version - then some CG work - before I get back to pages.

It's quite a workload!