It’s not all good news today unfortunately. Last week I was overcome with excruciating pain in my neck, shoulder and arm. No over the counter meds seemed to make a dent in it and I ended up in the ER on Wednesday. After a battery of tests, it’s come to light that I have a pinched nerve in my neck that has me laid up for a while. So this means that the Process will suffer some delays over the next little while. Fret not, faithful! In the meantime I’ll be plotting and scheming what’s going to happen over the next few pages. Now’s a good time to hit the ole email subscription option so you’ll be notified of any updates when they happen. Now it’s back to get some rest…

As February 1st rolled over, the Process reached an important landmark. Page loads to the site reached 100,000! For other sites, this may not seem like much but for the little webcomic that could, it’s a pretty big deal and I am very happy with it. When I started this project, I never dreamt that it would take off like it has. It’s still not a juggernaut but all things have to start somewhere and so far this has been a wonderful beginning. So my thanks go out to all of you out there who have visited this site regularly or just once. It’s your support and readership that helps power this engine onward.Recently I have been posting a lot of stuff on the blog. It’s been a busy week with the Threadless submission and Webcomicgeek’s nomination. So I am condensing another news item into this post. John Parkin over at Blog@Newsarama.com has been a big supporter of this site and today he posted this little number to help generate more support for Roboto Mori on Threadless. He writes,

Joe Infurnari, the creative genius behind the webcomic The Process and the special guest artist of Wasteland #14, also designs T-shirts … his latest design, pictured above, is currently up for voting on Threadless.com, which prints shirts based on user interest (Web 2.0 at work!) If you think it’s a cool design, head over there and vote.

So there you have it. It’s been a great week, folks. I’m going to get some more work done so go have yourselves a wonderful weekend.

As some of you already know, you can get all the latest updates to the Process delivered to you by email. To sign up, simply click that little envelope just up there. Yes, that’s it! Now, once you’ve put in the email address you’ll get a confirmation email. That confirmation comes from the address, confirmations(at)emailenfuego.net, and seems to be prone to getting snagged in spam filters. If you’ve signed up for an email subscription and haven’t gotten the confirmation email, check your spam. Only when you’ve clicked the link in the confirmation email will you be receiving email updates. After you’ve activated your subscription, all updates will be coming from my account, joe(at)joeinfurnari.com, and should not be any further problem. So that’s it! To those of you who have subscribed, thank you! To the rest of you, what are you waiting for!?

Today I went for it and I updated the look of this blog. I am much happier with this theme as it is more in line with the rest of the site. It’s a rework of Ghyslain Armand’s wonderful theme, Margot. You can get it for your own blog at his website, www.itcouldbethisone.com. There will probably be a period of working out some kinks but I think it’s pretty much there. If you encounter anything weird with it please leave a comment and I’ll get to it asap. Okay, back to the drawing board! 

Tired of waiting between pages? Checking the site only to be disappointed that absolutely nothing has been updated? Well, I can’t exactly promise speedier updates but I can offer to make it easier for readers to keep tabs on the Process. One way is by subscribing to the feed. It’s now powered by Feedburner so it’s available in HTML as well as the standard XML. Another new feature is the addition of email subscriptions. This service is also provided through Feedburner so your address will not be sold for spam. I guarantee it. What you will get is an email of every update to this blog. So instead of coming to me to find updates, the updates will come to you! I’ve had this feature added to my own email to test it and it works just fine. If you ever want to unsubscribe, there’s a link at the bottom of every email to remove your address from the list. It cannot get much easier than that. So go on, subscribe! There are boxes on the side bar and in the chapter pages for you to add your email address or simply click the link below.

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