• Welcome, fellow expatNERDs, to our new, improved, and IN COLOR comic. Franka is taking the series in a new direction and I think you will be pleased. And what better way to launch this new direction than with the official telling of Quiver’s Secret Origin!

    Now for a bit of housekeeping.

    First, this storyline will run all the way to the Christmas holiday, which means that Quiver’s origin will be the final storyline of 2025 and the conclusion of what Franka deems to be “Season 1.”

    Secondly, each part will be told in two pages, which is very much a shoutout and homage to those classic two-page stories that ran prevalently in British comics, such as The Steel Claw and The Spider, to only name two of the literal thousands if not tens of thousands of comics that ran with this format. It was quite common to pick up a comic in the UK that had a bunch of stories running inside it that were told in two part installments on a weekly basis. Franka liked this so much that she is transferring it here. We are ramping up so each page will currently be on a weekly basis, but we do hope to release both installments in one week; the first on Tuesday and the final on Thursday. But since we are ramping up this will likely occur next year.

    Third, the website. With this new format we do have to rethink not only the color scheme but also the way in which we present the comic to you on the homepage, the individual post, as well as the dedicated Solicitations Comic Page. This will definitely be a work in progress and will be revised along the way, so again, please bear with us.

    Finally, we are very excited and are working quite hard to make this happen. We have a lot to say with this new direction and we really cannot wait to share it with you right here on expatNERD.com as well as on the socials, Tapas, and Webtoons that we are currently active in.

    As Paul Levitz liked to say, the best is yet to come!

    -Marv

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  • Welcome to the new Solicitations! This is a Wizard of Oz moment where we are going in full color and are changing it up.

    Please bear with us. The new format means we will need to rethink the website a bit especially on how to present these comics to you. You may or may not know but we have been publishing on Tapas and Webtoons quite a bit recently, and they use a nice stacked format to read through the various pages. Now that we are moving to this format I think that is probably the solution. But as always please stay tuned and expect a big overall to probably happen in the New Year.

    What can you expect in the meantime? Well, if we can do it then the Quiver storyline will be the season finale when we stop in December. Then we will head to Season 2 and it will be a traditional comic book format. Franka has an idea on how to do this and when she pitched it I thought it was brilliant and it could work. But the whole thing will hinge on whether or not we can keep the deadlines. That is going to be key.

    But back to the comic. As you can see it is a nice little ploy using the whole Jump the Shark gimmick to head to the new format and introduce Quiver as a frickin’ space pirate. Have we run out of ideas? I suppose the comics coming after will have to speak for themselves. But in case you did not know, jump the shark was indeed a real thing when Happy Days had Fonzie jumping a shark on water skis. And the phrase jump the shark entered the English colloquial and has been used ever since. Who says you cannot learn anything from comics?

    The excitement on the possibilities is overwhelming. I can barely hold back my glee and excitement as a type these words. There is a lot of work to do, especially for Franka because she is going to have to make more banners, headshots, and also introduce new characters. So in the words of so many comic book authors and publishers that have come before us…

    The best is yet to come!

    -Marv

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