How Baby

Happy Mother’s Day, for those who are observing it today! I wanted to get this up a little early this week, so we can all have a nice sensible chuckle about the aaaaaa of it all.

Things have been so, so busy here, between regular work (I’m doing ~50hr/week between two jobs), preparing for the summer convention season (MCAF next weekend! and others!), planning for a vacation, and of course getting out comics as often as I can. It’s leaving me a little frazzled, and what’s keeping me going is looking forward to how incredibly good it’s going to be to be in my own bed again after all the travels. Sure, a vacation will be sweet… but can you imagine how good that’s going to feel? Gives me chills.

So this comic is definitely inspired by what’s going on right now for me specifically, but I think it’s a universal feeling, especially around Mother’s Day. One day of recognition and help – if you even get that, and many moms don’t – doesn’t really help with the enormous weight of everything that needs to be be done the rest of the year. Especially at the end of the school year, when everything seems to happen all at once.

I’m going to try to get at least one comic in the queue to release while we’re away, but please expect How Baby to be rather slow for a few weeks while I’m on the road!

I hope y’all are having a good day – even if today is just a regular Sunday for you! Everyone deserves some rest, I think. Have some rest for me, at least, because it’ll be a little bit until I can indulge. 😀

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BUT WAIT, SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

The game I worked on, Greenhearth Necromancer, releases on Monday, May 11! That’s either tomorrow or today, depending on when you’re reading this! (Unless you’re reading this from the archives, in which case… sorry). It’s a chill semi-idle gardening game with you in the role of a necromancer who’s been charged with taking care of your grandmother’s patio garden! Except, you know, you’re a necromancer… so if the plants die while you’re deep in spreadsheet hell, or you forget about them… you can just revive them! And that’s how the garden flourishes, by balancing your attention and accepting that your best is not always required, and that’s okay. It’s built to be a companion game, to keep you company during your day, with a slowly-unfolding story about grief and finding community.

The very best most helpful thing someone can do is buy the game right away on Monday morning, because it helps the game shoot up in the Steam algorithm! Leaving a review is also VERY helpful! But even if it’s not your jam (which is okay!), if you could even just put it on your wishlist, it signals to Steam to put it in front of more people, where it might find the person who DOES really vibe with it! We’re a small team making an introspective, genre-defying game, and discoverability is really the biggest hurdle at this size, so it’s a huge help. I hope you enjoy playing it – or even looking at it fondly while you put it on your wishlist! 😀

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AND ANOTHER

I’m going to be at MCAF – the Montreal Comic Arts Festival – this weekend! It’s an outdoor festival on Rue St. Denis in Montreal, and I’ve been preparing my little heart out for it. If you’re in the area, please stop by! I’m happy to sign copies of Motherlover, gab about games, whatever!

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TRANSCRIPT

Panel 1 (Lindsay exclaiming to Momo)
Lindsay: I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want!
Momo: So tell me what you want, what you really really want!

Panels 2-5 (Lindsay, increasingly agitated, pointing at piles of laundry, dishes, calendars and notes, etc.)
Lindsay: I wanna! (x4)

Panel 6 (Lindsay, extreme close-up, holding Momo face-to-face)
Lindsay: I really really REALLY wanna…

Panel 7 (cut to an open panel of Lindsay, wrapped in a blanket curled in fetal position on a white field)
Lindsay: aaaaaaaaaaaa