I’d like to share TAKE TWO with you guys here and now, in its intended full-color. Clickety-click, my lovelies:

From here, we’ve got just three more episodes together, my darlings.

As ever, you may also pick up wherever you left off via our chapter index.

OR: you pick up wherever you left off via our chapter index.

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AND: thanks for reading :)

You can also pick up wherever you left off via our chapter index.

ALSO: Please support RLP by recommending us on DIGG; it takes 1 minute to sign up and you’ll help turn a lot more people on to my work.

As an aside, you might notice how much speedier things are running this week, due to some under-the-hood fixes I mentioned recently being fully-implemented as of this chapter. By the time the next episode runs, RLP should be a much smoother ride for you kids with low-bandwidth.

Today’s also Brazil’s first game in the World Cup (and my first as a brasileiro), so it’s my duty to sit in a boteca with my countrymen and scream and cheer at the screen, spilling my beer on everyone in a ten-foot radius. See you on the other side, kids!

So with months of hands-on brainstorming with Tor.com and the mindless drudgery of continued re-exporting of all-this-work-I’ve-already-goddamn-done, we’re implementing a number of improvements to Red Light Properties’ reading experience over the coming weeks to make it work better for everyone as the story begins to slide towards the concluding chapter in mid-September.

First up, and live now, is our new INDEX PAGE, which breaks down the series into its chapters. Having the player only cache chapters instead of the entire novel to date both significantly drops loading times (duh, I know) and allows You The Reader to catch up with the story way easier than before.

There are other back-end improvements coming as well, things that should’ve really been built in from the beginning if I was just a little bit smarter. You may not notice them at all, but they’re several little tweaks to slim down file sizes and accelerate our reading experience to “seamless” or even “smooth like butter.”

Of course, I welcome your feedback with this; even the nittiest-of-picks can clue us in to a better holistic webcomics experience.

Let us know what you think in the comments, yes? I go draw now.

You can also now navigate the entire series by chapter via our index page.

I had a blast being back in the States (& Canada) for the last three weeks, kicking around New York City again, spending time with my folks, swimming with old friends at my favorite Miami beach, sneaking down to Key West with my lady to snorkel the Barrier Reef before the BP slick hits.

But great as that all was, it’s even better to be back “home”, a concept I’ve pondered much this year, and even more while back in the States. When we first landed in NYC, I felt confused at how instantly comfortable it was, unrooting my heart from Brazil and placing it in comfy Manhattan soil for a bit, then it did the same in my hometown of South Florida, here and there and here again.

But what I’ve taken away from that, so clear to me now, is that “home” isn’t a place… it’s the people, wherever they are. The warm little dots around the globe that let you forget where you were and just be where you are.

OK, /warm fuzzy moments. I’ll see you Tuesday with fresh RLP.

You can also start reading RLP from the beginning.

You can also start reading RLP from the beginning.