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Well folks, only four days to go before Gluemeat returns. I have to admit I’m uncharacteristically giddy to get things going again. I mean, usually, one could refer to me as enthusiastic, perhaps even motivational, perhaps even dorky, but in this case I’m fighting off my usual cheekyness and wry wit to give jolly feel good feelings to all. Yes, even at the risk of becoming uncool. Because, man, am I cool or what?

So, as a weekend treat to set your mouth to “Water,” my pal Mark Stickley from The Yak Shack has provided us with a bit of a guest comic featuring everyone’s favourite green anthropomorph. So that should satisfy your cravings until Monday when we return WITH FULL FORCE!

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Well folks, it’s almost time. Only seven days to go before everything comes back to the way it once was. Huzzah! Are you excited? Are your trembling with anticipation? I sure as hell am.

So to make sure that everything is tip-top tippity tab and kill the boredom of coming around every day and reading comments left by spam robots, I’m going to give a full five days of Aren’t We Real re-editions this week. It’s also to help catch up for lost time before returning to its regular Tuesday and Thursday schedule.

Thanks to everyone who is spreading the word of the ‘Meat’s return in the meantime, and I really, really hope I get to see you all next Monday, along with all the newfolk who have come to give the comic a gander. Chit-chat to thee next moon-day!

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Hello again, fellow Gluemeaties. It sure feels good (and kind of odd) to be writing here again after such a long time gone by. It was actually good to open up good ol’ Freehand and toy around with Blue and Orange again. I miss all of it probably more than I want to admit, too. And hopefully, if I’ve been doing my stuff right for the past two years, you’ve been missing it too.

Okay, well, update.

January was definitely one of the worst months I’ve gone through in a long time. Physiotherapy, at first, was horrifying. Anything I ever knew about pain was nothing compared to the first times I started bending over and picking stuff up and… well, I’ll spare the details because just thinking about it is making my back spasm. But that wasn’t even half of it. My grandmother, with whom I was very close, passed away at the age of 101 years old. There was something absolving in her death, but I couldn’t help feel true sadness about it, especially since I couldn’t stand at her grave at her burial. My sister’s ex-boyfriend who was still a good friend with us all took his own life a few days before my grandmother’s passing. And if losing her mother wasn’t enough, my mother lost one of her aunts, so she was mostly grief stricken and needed comfort as much as possible. Not only was I caught up in my own personal drama-thing, the outside world kept throwing me these bloody curves. I just wanted a break from it all, from the pain, from the grief, from the sadness…

Oddly enough, I found myself writing Gluemeat ideas right and left, despite the fact that there was nothing for me to really be funny about. I didn’t feel funny, there wasn’t anything funny around me to encourage it… but I just lay mostly on my back or half-seated positing with my trusty notepad and wrote. I wrote four panels of Blue and Orange, Safetypin, and other new stuff that I’m dying to get to designing; I even wrote longer, more extensive scripts, dialogue if you will. Guess there is such a thing as balance in the universe, no matter how small one’s perception of the universe is.

So I’ve been thinking about getting back to work on Gluemeat. Not just writing anymore, but back to putting all our favorite characters into reality once more. Which is good right? Especially since my back is doing much better for a while. I’ve actually been going back to work, even if the public transit system makes my spinal cord feel like Jell-O. Let me tell you, working at home isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be, I’m glad to be back at the office. And my girlfriend, man, she’s should be canonized for everything she’s been doing, hanging around with a bloody infirm like me. As for my son, it’s too bad I can’t romp around with him as much, but on the plus side we’ve been kicking ass at Mario Kart Double Dash. But I digress. I believe it’s more than time for my little piece of Internet land to get alive and growing again. Enough stasis!

Now to prove that I did indeed put some thought into this and that I’m not just blowing hot air, I came up with a plan. It’s a good plan. A wonderful plan. A plan that would make the plans of lesser plans tremble. Part of this plan is getting you to help me a bit as well. You’ll see. Here we go…

- First and foremost, I’m going to impose a deadline on myself. March 1 will be the return of Gluemeat to the web with brand new Case Yorkian content.

- Promote my return! Since I will be returning to the world of the online world, why don’t you talk about? Tell your friends, your family, your creditors! And if you have a website, why don’t you use one of these handy-dandy banners of joy!

- Secundo, and this is for your personal information only, I am going to drop the case@gluemeat.com email address. I’m getting spammed out of my mind since renewing my domain address, so, if you wish to correspond with me from now on, please use caseyorke@gluemeat.com Be sure to write it down: caseyorke@gluemeat.com.

- The extended dialogues I have been writing will serve to get a Gluemeat Flash animation series. This should mostly be possible to my pal Dan “The Australi-AN” Beeston, who would take over the Flash programming aspect of it all. I’m working hard to get some voice talent down as well as recording possibilities. I might just end up doing it all myself. But that is really the next path I want Glluemeat to take.

- If you have any guest art that you would like to send over to me, I would be proud to put them up on the site to get the ball rolling again. The art could be just about any height, but it would have to maintain the usual Gluemeat comic width, which is 572 pixels. If you’re a comic artist or not, it really doesn’t bother me. Maybe you’d like to take a picture of yourself doing something which could be thought as being “glue-meatyish.” Go wild and nuts. It’d really be cool to get some stuff up before March 1.

- Birthday cards! My birthday is February 19! Remember sending me cards last year? Hey! Here’s the address:

And if you do send me a card, you don’t have to mention my back or anything. Just wish me luck and fun.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to write me, asking me how I was doing and sending their wishes. I’ve been extremely sloppy on email responses (even for me!) so consider yourselves thanked.

Well, I guess I should get to deleting the spam comments from the comics. Ouch! My back! I’ll start tomorrow (heh-heh-heh)…

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