On June 22nd, two readers stopped by and read the majority of the archives! Thanks to the reader from North Sydney, New South Wales Australia, and to the one from Kettering, Nottinghamshire, UK! Looks like prematurely disappointed has a worldly appeal! Thanks for spending some time with Cass and the gang and drop me a line at prematurely.disappointed@yahoo.com and I’ll get you a signed print of your favorite!

Getting tired of making excuses for a lack of comics, but it’s all I can do. Luann had the choice to work days this week (she’s a normal 12-hour night shifter) so I am doing a little work from home. But with having to be Mr. Mom to 2 little boys, I’m finding it exceptionally hard to get anything done, work or comics. Add to that a little writer’s block (as I’ve said before, the rest of the story is plotted out, but the dialog isn’t coming as freely as it often does) and you’ve got the recipe for webcomic disaster. Finally got the pool set up for the boys (the 6-year-old started lessons this week, allowing me a little time with Mr. Sketchbook) and am still hopeful of getting the trampoline assembled and the garage cleaned out by July 5, the soon-to-be-4-year-old’s birthday party. So tonight it’s work stuff and tomorrow night is Friday’s comic (finger’s crossed). Hope to see you then!

Thanks reader from Utica who stopped by Saturday and perused the archives. I assume you saw something you liked and hopefully you’ll keep coming back. If you want to drop me a line at prematurely.disappointed@yahoo.com I’ll send you a singed print. You rock!

Thanks to the reader from Jersey who stopped by Wednesday and went through the archives. I can only assume you saw something you liked (to spend that kind of time) and hopefully you’ll keep coming back. If you want to drop me a line at prematurely.disappointed@yahoo.com I’ll send you a singed print. Thanks again!

I should really get that Twitter thing going. Howdy gang! I’ve been so busy it’s a good thing I don’t have a full-time job. With my 6 year old getting done with school I’ve been building a trampoline and making an addition to a jungle gym, and setting up a pool. Plus cleaning out a garage which the wife says needs to be done by June 28th for my soon-to-be 4 year old’s birthday party. When we moved 4 years ago a lot of stuff got piled in the garage and never got out. Some day we hope to park cars in there. I’ve been doing more character sketches for my ZUDA submission, and collecting more gags/plotlines for “prematurely disappointed” strips. I even got the rest of this eternally long storyline plotted out. About the only thing I haven’t been doing is completing more strips. But let me tell you, I stayed up Monday finishing what was to be my Tuesday strip by cutting and pasting parts from past strips when I realized that’s why I wasn’t as enthused as I used to be. The drawing part is the creative and fun part, and I was barely doing it anymore. Plus I decided y’all deserved better than that. So I’m re-doing “Tuesday’s” strip for Friday. I tell you, when I miss posts I always feel the next strip must be a 5-star offering and I never feel they are.

For the future, I’ll be changing the header to say “updates Tuesdays and Fridays”, when this storyline is done I’ll be completing some Sunday strips for submission so I’ll probably be going once-a-week to complete those, and maybe keeping the one-a-week through the summer so I can complete my ZUDA comic (we’ll see how my time crunch eases up when the garage is done and the trampoline etc. are assembled). Should I make a call-out for guest strips? I guess we’ll see soon. But stay ‘tooned for the story of Spencer and his roommate, Penny’s summer vacation, and more of Cass lookin’ for love. Thanks for your time and patience!

Even in the midst of my worst posting irregularity, 2 folks stopped by and reviewed the entire archives. I missed where one was from, but the other was from Montrose PA! Drop me a line at prematurely.disappointed@yahoo.com and let us know who you are!

I’m a little tired of whining about my circumstances, and I’m pretty sure most of the three of you are sick of hearing it, but I feel you deserve an explanation for showing up and getting nothing new. My new posting schedule was not meant to be an internet hoax, or any sort of hoax for that matter. But as soon as I planned my week to meet the schedule, my boss decided I needed to work more. So that meant less nights to stay up drawing and such. But there’s tomorrow night which leads to a Friday posting and then next week the Tuesday/Thursday schedule begins!

Anyone watch “Reaper”?  Technically it’s a “bad” show, but I find it quite enjoyable and funny. That and “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”. Master Shake!

That’s it - I’m putting it in writing so there’s real pressure to make it happen. For the foreseeable future, starting tomorrow, new strips will appear Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yay! And the peasants rejoice. Come back tomorrow!!!

Well, no surprise, it happened again. I’m sure glad whatever sleep disorder I have didn’t take effect until after the newspaper gig. That would have been REALLY embarrassing.

Luann, my wife whom I’ll refer to as Luann from now on, tells me I have all day Sunday free after the lilacs are planted, the garage is cleaned, the basement is organized and the cats are sterilized, so hopefully I can get a little headstart on next week. Actually I have a little headstart with #213 being written and the next 5 strips plotted out, but who’s counting.

I decided to pull the ZUDA sketchbook post so that anyone who fumbled into my little realm will see what they should be seeing.

Considering my posting schedule of late it’s probably not a great time to invite new readers in, but I’d really like to start reaching more people. My site meter dealy reports I get about 40 visitors a day. I’ve got friends spreading the word, I’ve started a MySpace page a long while ago, I’m on some webcomics dot com site and I send my “business card” to all my ebay customers. My ideas for the next moves include setting up Facebook pages for Cass, Spence, Angi, Marisol and Penny, reaching out to people with similar interests on MySpace (currently it’s just other webcomicers), and doing guest strips for other creators. Does anyone have any other ideas?

On Saturday 2 new readers came by and went through the entire archives, and they were both from Canada. Strange coincidence, or is PD taking over the northern territories? So thanks fans from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and Toronto, Ontario for giving PD your time. Hope you come back for more and drop me a note at prematurely (dot) disappointed (at) yahoo.com!