You may have noticed, though statistically speaking you have not, that the comic is rather behind the update-every-friday schedule. Now I know it's traditional for webcomics to have a post that says "I'm working to catch up!" with no further updates at that point but I actually am trying to catch up and since the actual workload involved in drawing these comics isn't insurmountable it's fully conceivable that I can catch up and continue posting them on schedule.

This has been a bit of a better month for me, art-wise, I feel like I'm climbing out of the inexplicable spring doldrums and ready to produce more of the art I crave.

In July, I had a significant amount of time off from work, which unintuitively means I didn't draw as much. As I may have mentioned in the past I tend to do most of my drawing during my lunch break at work, so it's easy to see how fewer lunch breaks would result in less art. In addition, when I have more than a lunch break's worth of time to devote to art, I tend to put it into bigger projects which aren't so easy to share here. Hopefully more on that soon. Anyway, here is July's bounty for you to enjoy.
We've got Natasha exhibiting poor sword handling skills, Natasha beating the heat, Natasha reading a raunchy novel, Natasha and Evangeline participating in an art meme, Evangeline playing some violin, and last but not least Hitomi Kanzaki from Vision of Escaflowne, undoubtedly rushing to warn Van Fanel that he is seconds away from death.