It has become obvious to me in the 14+ weeks since I last updated my blogs that, since becoming a slightly less irresponsible adult, with a job and everything, I don't have time anymore to compose long, rambly blog posts in Notepad and try to cross-post them to a bunch of different social networking sites and get them each to display properly.

Here is what I've decided to do: I will try to be better about checking e-mails and RSS feeds, I will continue to be on AIM/Yahoo!/MSN/GTalk via Pidgin and my IRC channel via XChat, and I will use my new Twitter account and occasionally Facebook for my micro-blogging urges (both via TweetDeck). I will pretty much just read other people's updates on any other social networking sites that I have an account on.

Hopefully this will be much more manageable, and if you want any of those account names or need me to add you back on anything, send an e-mail to Escher3030 AT gmail DOT COM and I won't ignore it like most of my other e-mail because it will be from a person and not a newsletter!

And that's it,
Nicholas

Last week was the 2009 New York Comic Con and the Cosmic Debris crew was there, so it's time for an Emily the Strange news update. This is where I use my Internet Detective skills, and a little old fashioned Google-fu if things get messy, to track down information on the future of the Emily the Strange brand.

According to Rob Reger, the first novel is done and should be out in June. It will be titled Emily the Strange: The Lost Days (a novel) and more information can be found by visiting that page I just subtly linked. As you may or may not remember, this novel will provide the loose basis for the upcoming movie and is about Emily getting amnesia and having to discover who she is. All of this is told through her perspective in the form of a diary and it sounds like it will be an awesome read.

Regarding the movie, it is now going to be a live-action film with some animation snuck in, not the live-action/animation hybrid like Reger says he was hoping for. I personally find that kind of disappointing, but Reger says he also developed a TV show that will be animated, so that softens the blow a lot, assuming it doesn't get caught in "development hell".

Details remain scarce on the videogame, but a video linked from the novel's HarperCollins Children's page seems to imply that Backbone Entertainment was involved at some point, if they aren't still involved. I don't think I have experience with any of their games, so I can't comment on whether this is good or bad.

Miscellaneous Emily news time! The second Emily novel is already written and the illustrations are being worked on as we speak. Expect an "Art of Emily" book from Dark Horse later this year as well as a third series of the comic (by the way, MySpace Dark Horse Presents has an Emily the Strange story up now, entitled "She Moves in the Dark", which you should definitely check out if you haven't already). NetToons has a "create your own Emily cartoon" thing set up, which seems to have improved a lot since the Alpha. A stand-alone 3-D Movie Maker-type program would have been way cooler, but I can understand why that's not possible.

Before I go, I will finally reveal my sources, in case I left anything important out, or you simply want to read the interviews themselves. Thanks to Forces of Geek and The Quarter Bin for conducting such great interviews. Oh, and as for "Rosamondgate", it's ultimately up to Emily's individual fans to reach their own conclusions, but, after doing a little contemplation, I'm obviously still a fan. Leave a comment or bug me on AIM, if you need a more in-depth answer than that.

And that's it,
Nicholas