I want to give a big thanks to Phil Hofer for upgrading my site to the latest version of Comic Easel. Phil took over support for the ComicPress WordPress theme a while back and evolved it into Comic Easel, which imho is hands-down the best webcomic platform for content producers. Phil single-handedly maintains the Comic Easel theme. In addition to his development work, he is also well known for providing great support. Thanks to Phil, I’ve been able to make this comic much more readable, separating the Nikki Story into loose chapters (actual chapter title pages are forthcoming), and moving Zoey and various filler pages into their own section. By request, I also added a bookmark widget so that new readers don’t have to sift through the entire comic to find their place.
I’ve got a busy month and a half ahead, with some work travel looming and a family wedding, but I anticipate that I’ll be able to maintain weekly updates. Once things cool down a bit, I’ll start working on the next phase of the site, with the members section I spoke of before, inexpensive PDF comics, and possibly a print Kickstarter. To those who are worried about the members section: the base comic will remain free, and the story will not suffer. (And the member’s section will be very inexpensive!)
Several fans have expressed interest in Nikki merchandise. I’d love to oblige, but don’t really have a clue what to offer -so if you have suggestions, I’m all ears!
Thanks to everyone for your continued readership. I’m flattered to have had over 10 million page views and over 850,000 unique visitors since I added my counter three-plus years ago. Hopefully the best is yet to come! Cheers -TK
Inseparable young love, eh? This oughta be good!
I must say the new layout is very impressive! Great work TK and Phil, thanks to the new chapters structure I’ve even seen a few pages that I’d unwittingly missed before. Nice work 🙂
Okay, John Hurt just got creepy
Congrats for getting this far withe technical improvements – it’s good!
Also, the first thing I noticed today was the new fav-icon – now it stands out uniquely from the other ComicPress comics on my bookmark bar. That’s even better!
Also, MANY thanks for the warning about next 1.5 months, so I/we don’t need to worry about you & missing updates during that time.
And then, it seems to me that the jpeg artifacts are less obvious than on earlier pages (even though I can still see some – my eyes are sensitive & trained…)
All that said: There is something weird about headmaster Oulette! Either he’s way too cool for his job or… he knows something!!
(And now I spotted an error: There is “pita” in the character list (nice feature btw!), should be “flitter”)
Have fun 😀
Well he knew to call her Flitter.
(Oh, alright, so Flitter mentioned her name after the door was opened…heh)
can we see some more magic.. I think like page 25 or so this same guy the guard got his butt kicked by one of the girls after one of them lost her temper when questioned about something.. can that happen again? the creppy guy who looks like he who must not be named from the harry potter movies looks like he could use it.
Soooo a three way huh? Mgg Should be lots of fun.
That guard is going to be trouble, isn’t he? Won’t be surprised ifhe ends up like poor Ash, except willingly turn ‘rotten’ because Nikki and/or Flitter turn down his advances (or something petty/creepy like that)
Pretty Pita is wearing too many clothes (again) 🙁
Blame that on Star Trek 😛 On the bright side, here will be Pita cosplay vote incentives in the future in which she is not quite so covered 🙂
Their needs to be less clothes come on i started today i love it
At least Star Trek uniforms are toight (unfortunately, they also insist on strapping the poor women down even toighter, either that or big-breasted women don’t make it into StarFleet :()
Love it