Although we do try to get the comic up before dawn breaks, occa­sion­ally we’ll take full advan­tage of the tech­ni­cal ambi­gu­i­ties involved in the “Tuesday/Friday” update sched­ule. Which is to say: the comic will be up today, but a little later than usual. Please check back later this afternoon!

If you’re look­ing for some­thing to do in the mean­time, might I sug­gest you check out Mr. Deity? It has noth­ing to do with time travel or web­comics, but it is a very funny web series I stum­bled upon recently. I enjoy it, and maybe you will enjoy it too!

Let’s get the bad news out of the way: Brazil has once again con­spired against us.¹ There will not be a full comic on Friday! To dis­play the inten­sity of his anguish regard­ing the sit­u­a­tion, Greg sent me an email con­tain­ing no less than 601 frowny emoti­cons.² That, friends, is regret. I’ll do my duty to pro­duce some­thing humor­ous or inter­est­ing in the meantime.

Regard­ing public opin­ion, though, I’d fig­ured this is a good time to gauge peoples’ thoughts on a couple of things. Chronil­log­i­cal has run for more than 100 strips now, and while Greg and I have dis­cussed the strip’s future, it’s always worth­while to know what fans are think­ing. So, feel free to leave a com­ment or send me an email (john [at] chronil­log­i­cal [dot] com) regard­ing one or all of the following:

1. What do you like about the strip?
2. What about the strip is most non-​triumphant and/or not so great?
3. Are there any eras you’d want our trio to tackle in the future?³
4. Spe­cific merch ideas?

Of course, we may decide not to use anyone’s sug­ges­tions and have the gang fizzle out in the Pleis­tocene, a gaggle of Megath­erium their only com­pan­ions. Then again, we might use all sug­ges­tions simul­ta­ne­ously in a schiz­o­phrenic post-​modern bar­rage! Who knows? The only thing that will reveal the answers … is TIME.⁴

__

¹ BRAZILLL!!! [shake-shake-shake-a-fist]
² The orig­i­nal plan was to repro­duce the email here for all to read, but that’s just too much gloom for one post to handle.
³ Hah … “future.” (Almost any time word becomes a pun in the con­text of this site. It’s ridicu­lous.)
⁴ Regard­less, thanks for your input and thanks for read­ing!

This morn­ing, I was comb­ing through my inbox—like I do—when I ran across a mes­sage from Chronillogical’s very own Mr. Adven­ture (Greg). And you know what he said? I’ll tell you what he said! He said “I’m going to a jungle lodge for the next 4 days or so, so I prob­a­bly won’t have inter­net access until Friday.”

Which means what, exactly:

1. There is a strip ready for tomorrow!
2. But there is not one ready for Friday, so:
3. Filler again on Friday!

If you’re the patient type, then we’re eter­nally grate­ful for your patience! If you’re get­ting impa­tient … blame Greg! Alter­na­tively, you could blame Brazil and/or jun­gles. Because, really, what have jun­gles ever done for us? I’m going to guess that they pretty much have no eco­log­i­cal or soci­o­log­i­cal impor­tance to anyone, except for jaguars.