This is not like anything new for this comic unfortunately, but I am announcing that this comic will be on hold until after I move and can find a suitable work place. That may be a week or two, it could be a month. Depends on how hard it is to find an apartment once we get there.

I think I may have accidentally printed these inks in color before I painted them. The ink certainly ran with the water more than usual, resulting in some blurry edges. I’ll have to fix that before I do a book, but it looks fine at web resolution.

I think that Tuesday will be our normal update day as long as I can keep up with all the comics.

Buy the Original Ink Own your piece of Emerald Winter. This page featuring Gisela’s super happy face and love of children. $25 What a bargain!

Gisela hates children. XD

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Original Artwork from this page (click to view), ink and wash on a color template, signed by creator and artist Jamie Jennings. Get your very own piece of Emerald Winter. $25.00 USD

This is the first page that has been completely changed. I am making Gisela’s appearance in this story earlier so that when the “real” story begins, Rien and Gisela will have already met each other.

Own This Artwok Own original artwork from this page. Note: artwork from this page was done on different canvases. Please look at the image to the left to see what you are getting. $25

I want to thank Lorehunter from the chatbox for uploading all the old pages for me. I have never seen such a complete archive of the older version pages. I’m going to set up an external site to display these for the sake of history, but I don’t want to add them to this installation of Emerald Winter, in case people get confused about what’s canon and what’s not.

I lost these pages in their original format thanks to the “perfect storm” of bad luck I had around 2006 or 2007, I’m not sure which year. Anyway, I didn’t have access to the internet for several months because our cable company couldn’t get the line fixed (this was before wifi was everywhere). During that time, I also had a hard drive failure. The backup files I had got corrupted somehow over the years, to where a few aren’t readable. And during all that, the hosting company I was using went MIA. The site just poofed for a long time. I didn’t know who I could contact to get the domain back. When I finally did get to the registrar, they wanted to charge a $200 fee to renew the domain name. I didn’t have that kind of money. I’ve only gotten the name back recently.

Anyway, I’m glad somebody out there saved it so that I can at least point and say “there’s that comic I did in high school” haha.

So here’s the game plan. The chapter you are currently reading is going to be edited to reflect the changes I’ve made in the continuing version of the story. I’m also going to upload all of the pages at a larger 600 px size (currently it’s only 450). So what’s going to happen is I’m going to take the comic online, then upload the pages again one at a time. There will be some new content in these pages, and the story will be shorter overall. That lets us get to the good stuff quicker.

Major changes that are happening:

• Gisela appears in this chapter.
• The long flashback will be removed.
• The account of Rien’s mother’s death will be different.

However, I will put the pages being replaced in a “retcon” section for future viewing, so they don’t end up “lost to the internet” like the very first Emerald Winter storyline.

Right now I’m going to start reformatting the site for the new pages. Please bear with us until then.