10.24.2008 - Terrence Marks:

Due to a death in the family, we're not going to be able to update for a few days. We've spent the last few days in the hospital, visiting her, and haven't had a chance to work on comics. We had things ready until the 25th. We appreciate your patience, as always.

09.18.2008 - Isabel Marks:

Sorry for the late update, things are finally getting back on track... thank you to everyone who sent birthday wishes, Terrence has been swamped by work, but I do hope he will reply to everyone, if he has not already (I'm not his email taskmaster, after all ^_^).

Finally, after far too long, both Namir Deiter and You Say it First's archive pages and story arc drop downs have been updated... actually, they were like that for a couple days, but I'm barely only mentioning it now. Sorry. ^_^

News about the new on-line book store: we found a program we think will work, but since Terrence's work is really picking up this week (he may only get one day off this weekend, which has left him even busier) it might be a while before it's ready.

Don't forget... they may not be psychical, but the namirdeiter.net virtual book store is open for those of you with memberships, with lots of brand new stories!

Enjoy the start of Fall, everyone!

09.08.2008 - Isabel Marks:

Hello September... long time no news. I'll try and make sure I cover everything going on here...

First off, yes the goal was made for this month, as I hope you've noticed, ^_^ Thank you so much everyone! Sorry about the wonky updating lately, long story short, Terrence's computer has been on the fritz for a while now and finally got too annoying to use last week. He ordered a new one and is still migrating things over- so things like the donation bar for the month are still not working because that file has not been moved over yet. We hope to have it updated soon.

I won't even go into my own computer misadventures, since they are both stupid and embarrassing... but my computer was out of commission for a while there to ><. Let's just say there is now a coat of pink duct tape over the front to prevent it from happening again.

On that note, we will be having an art sale to help pay for his computer (as well as a few other computer related things we both need). Right now it is only for namirdeiter.net readers, as the coding we're using is not automatically deducting the art that's sold like it should be. We will be having a public sale soon, but for now, if you're a .net member, please consider checking them out.

Speaking of wonky store coding... today we had to close the NDUnlimited store down because apparently the program was not deducting the amount of books we had vs. what was sold, which lead to some book over sales... which is a problem, a big one. We're trying to find a good store front to use, but as book sales are not enough to warrant spending a monthly amount for a store program, it might be a while before we find a decent program that will work with our current hosting.

Terrence's birthday is the 13th of this month! He posted about it over at his blog (which is over at You Say it First (or to your right, if you're reading this from there).

It seems there should be more news... but other than August being the most unluckiest month for us (we had something very horrible happen every week like clock work there), there isn't much else to say. Happy almost-Fall, people.

09.07.2008 - Terrence Marks:

My birthday is in a week, on September 13th. I'm asking for music. Your choice what. Local music. Or your own band. Or those songs you like, but don't think anyone else would. Your choice. I listen to a lot of music, mostly psychadelic pop. If it's from the 1960s, I probably already have it. But it doesn't hurt to ask. I'm sorry about the short notice. Our PO Box is listed above, or you could just send me a link if it's online.

Also, how are you guys liking the RSS feed? I'm strictly a web 1.0 kinda guy and I don't really use it. Do you? How could it be better? Should it have all the comics or just the last dozen? Let me know.

09.02.2008 - Terrence Marks:

Isabel and I play Maple Story - or at least we did until Monday. Now, when we went to Comic-Con, our freebie bag included, among other things, Maple Story cards. They've got an affiliated card game, and some of the cards give you in-game items.

One of the items we got, it turns out, sold for 100 million mesos. To give you an idea of scale, Isabel and I have been playing on and off for four years and have about thirty million saved up. This was a very significant amount of money.

So I put it in my shop. We begin making plans about what we'll do with the money, much like the protagonists in a Guy de Maupassant story would. We looked at a number of expensive things and I was trying to decide which of them would be worth buying.

It sold. Unfortunately, in my haste to get a good spot to sell, I left a zero or two out of the price. The item sold for a mere fraction of its usual price and all of our dreams of extra-fancy equipment crumbled to dust.

So now we're very disappointed in this turn of luck. From a strictly economic standpoint, the cards were included in our Comic-Con expenses. We paid nothing extra for them and are a million ahead, technically. In the same way, if you buy a winning lotto ticket for a dollar and trade it for a Happy Meal, you're making a 500% return on your investment, technically. If I, instead, got an item worth 500,000 and sold it for a million, I would've been thrilled. I don't think we could play without thinking about all the stuff we could've had, how we don't have it, and aren't going to get it any time in the near future. It's a slow, grindy game sometimes, and it's hard going when you realize that all the playing you did this week only gets you one thousandth of the money you lost.

So we're not playing it, at least for a while. We may try to find another multiplayer game - we're not too specific about it being online. Just something cooperative with a good amount of content. We may put the game down for a few months, again. Or we may ask you readers who went to Comic-Con, got the free cards, and don't play to send us your in-game item codes. We're not sure yet.

08.18.2008 - Terrence Marks:

Comics are back up to date! A new ND Talk podcast is up over at NamirDeiter.net! And if you donated $50 or more in any month between December 2007 and July, expect a package from us shortly.

Also, we'd like to thank everyone who donates and supports the comic. We were a few dollars short of our goal last month, but it looks like we're on track this month.

08.11.2008 - Terrence Marks:

August's wallpapers are up! Donate for a full size version, please.