Well everyone, the end of this comic is almost upon us now. This isn't the goodbye speech just yet, but an announcement about what you can expect to happen at this website after the story ends. Most of you probably expect a prolonged state of stagnation that will last until I no longer feel like paying for the domain name, by which time you'll have forgotten all about me. You'll delete your bookmarks and RSS subscription the minute you've read the final strip and never show your face here again. If that's your decision, that's okay, but you'll be missing out on all the great new content here at the-artiste.net!

Say whaaaaaaaa?! But how can there be new content if the comic is over and done with, you ask? Well, an awesome idea occurred to me in the last day or so: Go back to the beginning and re-release every single strip... with author commentary! Yeah, you know how right after watching a movie on DVD, you just can't wait to immediately watch the whole thing again, but with the director talking over everything the whole way through? Don't you just wish Web comic authors did the same thing? Well after this trend I'm starting catches on, they will... they all will!

So in all seriousness, here's what will happen: Every few days an "Author's commentary" block will be added to each comic, in order. Basically a paragraph, varying in length depending on how much I have to say, with a bit of background info or any other thoughts or recollections I have about that strip, or about the comic in general. I'll try my best to make it actually interesting, and you'll get to learn a lot of stuff that I wouldn't have been comfortable revealing when the comic was active, so consider it a reward for sticking through to the end.

All this will begin a week or so after the last actual comic update, with a frequency of 2 or 3 times per week (now if only I could publish actual comics that often!) If you're a feed subscriber, you'll receive these automatically. So if you enjoyed this story and are curious enough to dig a little deeper, stick around after the show.