The original "As The Umbra Turns" was simply a dialogue, written late at night in my Junior Year of college (so somewhere in 1997-1998), when I was bored and I wanted to type and had no subject. I believe I must have been chatting with someone when I remembered an old game joke 'As The Umbra Turns" and took it from there.

Original Dialogue

After I wrote the dialogue, I was then given a class project (same year) to do a major undertaking of something you wanted to do with your life. So I turned it into my first attempt at a comic.

It was a total of 7 pages plus a cover and advertisements....and boy was it lame. But I was ever so proud of it then.

Then, somewhere on the order of about 2 1/2 years later, I decided to RE-DRAW the entire thing. Because When I moved, I found the old book and said, "Oh gawd! This is HORRIBLE! I'm sure I can do better now!"

Since this project wasn't anything important, or anything I could publish, I didn't actually spend alot of time on it. Sometimes I did several pages right then, and other times there would be MONTHS between the pages I did. SO aside from the progression you see between the first comic and the second version of the same comic, you will ALSO see a sort of progression IN the second version of the comic. It has taken about 2 or 3 years to have everything completley drawn. And as it is, I still haven't finished the last steps (the computer steps)

So, without further ado - the comics themselves.