The Giga-Reich has come for its revenge!
Dropping that statement and all the implications that come with it has been LONG time coming, let me tell ya! Every single page since we added that little hint of a bigger enemy to the second to last page of Secret of the Beaufort Sea has been in some way shape or form building to this moment and the craziness that is to follow.
Speaking of CRAZINESS, be here NEXT WEEK for a page that you have to see to believe! There is nothing…NOTHING that can prepare you for what is coming. The other shoe drops in just 7 short days and so will your jaw. Don’t you DARE miss it!
Ok, I have an important announcement that I’ve been holding in my back pocket for a while. It’s not something I am looking forward to telling you guys, but now is definitely the time to throw it out there. So, anyway…
REGULAR READERS MAKE SURE TO READ THE FOLLOWING: After the final page of the EotEs Epilogue hits on April 28th Deep Dive Daredevils will be going on HIATUS from our weekly publishing schedule. Before I go any further with the explanation of how and why, I want to ASSURE you all that this is NOT the end and DDD will most certainly RETURN after the hiatus.
Here are all the details:
1. I don’t know how long the hiatus will be. Ever since the middle of Pitch Black Day we have BARELY been making the weekly deadlines, and this hiatus is designed to let us get out ahead with a comfortable cushion of pages. As soon as we have enough pages in the bag to meet the schedule on a regular basis again WE WILL BE BACK.
2. The next DDD story is THE DEFINITIVE DDD story. When the EotEs Epilogue ends, it will also mark the end of Deep Dive Daredevils Volume One. A big aspect of the coming DDD Volume Two is going to be telling HOW the Deep Dive Daredevils came to be. This story is HUGELY important to us and we want to make sure that we have the time to make it as good as it can possibly be. We’re going for QUALITY over QUANTITY.
3. And FINALLY, during the hiatus we will NOT go completely radio silent. I will be sending out MONTHLY updates to our email newsletter subscribers. The updates will be random, but I promise at least one a month. They will consist of previews, updates on our progress, or perhaps just rambling screeds. Should be fun.
Anyways, till next week!
-Matt-
The “Giga-Reich”, eh? Sounds ominous! And I wouldn’t be calling the Captain’s bluff, if I were you. If those melted deck guns aren’t enough, I’m sure the Custer could melt the rest of their sub easily enough. What else do Those Wacky Nazis have up their sleeves? I can’t wait to find out…
You only have to wait 7 days, Crazyman, and let me tell you it is a DOOZY!
“Turn your vessel around immediately, or I’ll sink you dead!”
Best quote ever!
Sad to hear about the hiatus, but great news to hear there will be a volume 2 forthcoming. When is the next KS for a print copy of the next adventure?
Yep, we are bummed about the hiatus too (I am going to miss the weekly interaction with you guys like crazy), but to keep the story and the art up to the high standards we’ve set for ourselves it is a necessary evil.
On the next KS: Man, we’re still recovering from/tying up the loose ends from the first one, so I haven’t even really started to think about the next one yet.
But…if I had to guess it will probably be around the same time we come back from the hiatus.
Call me old fashioned but I love holding a hardcopy of any sort of comic in my hands. While the whole storage thing is a pain in the ass (just ask my long-suffering partner), I don’t think I’ll ever accept a electronic copy if I had to choose.
As weird as it might sound coming from a guy who MAKES a freaking WEBCOMIC, I totally agree.
Giga Reich? Ain’t that those leather-and-studs-and-chains wearin’ ‘goose steppers’ from ‘Frisco?… I didn’t know the had a sub…
Is this a Lady Gaga joke?
If so, kudos Old Sarg!
… uh… no… they’re… uh dudes… sorta…
They must have got a discount on that NAZI Flag, it is short an arm…
What year is it in the story?
“End(s) of the Earth(s)” starts on September 8, 1938, so now it’s only a few days later. Hope that helps.
Well, T.Gatto, I’d really like to answer your questions but it looks like Crazyman and tkg already did it for me.
“We’ve got just one job and that’s killin’ Nehtzees!” *Opens weapons locker*
As I recall, that symbol isn’t out of place as some other folks have thought it’s analog is found on the Isle of man as seen here:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/i/im-man29.gif
For note, the symbol is called a triskelion. So it’s not actually missing a leg, it could be that the giga-reich is some surviving fragment of the normal nazi party. There’s no indicator that a WW2 happened so I’d chalk it to a backstory mystery.
That’s a pretty impressive level of research, tkg. I must admit that what you’ve come up with is news to me. Ha!
There is a pretty big clue to the nature of the Giga-Reich in the design of the flag in that last panel. It has less to do with number of “arms” and more to do with their angles. It will all become much clearer with next week’s page.
Ohhh nice three dimensional object represented two dimensionally… well played.
That’s so cool! Once you see the cube, you can no longer unsee it. Didn’t see that coming (pun intended).
It’s a fascinating coincidence that I just finished watching Threshold, a very cool sci-fi TV show from 2005 that was prematurely cancelled after one season (someone notice a pattern here?) but is available on Youtube, in which a triskelion symbol – and three-strand DNA – was symptomatic for an alien invasion / infection.
Hmm, now I think there might indeed be a sinister reason for all those cool sci-fi TV shows being cancelled. Who knows, maybe the Giga-Reich is even mightier – and even more evil – than Fox?
All Kudos for the Giga-Reich flag insignia should go to Evin, as he designed it.
And, just how EVIL is the Giga-Reich? Just you wait and see…