Alpha Flag

So here’s the deal, guys. The first 20 of you to solve this will get an Alpha Fan pin in the mail, free of charge. Feel free to collaborate for the puzzle bits here in the comments, or on your various forums and blogs, but please don’t share the absolute end answer bits–so everyone gets a fair shot at the prize.

How it all works will make more sense as you solve it. A tip to help you when you get stuck: pay attention to the duplicates. They’ll trip you up if you’re not keeping tabs on them.

If you click the images, you’ll get higher res versions.

Pins still unclaimed:

Also, I apologize to your eyes. Good luck!

Thanks go Cohen of Reign In Hell for helping come up with the puzzle, and Chris for the PHP business.

As the sun sets of Charlie and the Diver, they see that mysterious man watching them. Who is he, they wonder.

Who indeed!

That’s the end of this kind of brutal chapter. See you later, Echo. You were a very ill-tempered bird. Hopefully we didn’t lose too many of you with those last few pages of violence. Charlie and the Diver are still learning–hopefully they’ll figure out a better way to do this reincorporation thing somewhere down the line.

We still owe you final colors on a couple pages at the beginning of the chapter, but Renee will have those up for you guys soon, like she did with the pages from the previous chapter. That one is totally complete now, if you’re interested in taking a look at that.

We’ve got a lot of really interesting things planned for you coming up–starting with a really special thing this Thursday at midnight, PST (I hope. I’ll announce whether or not it’ll be late on Wednesday sometime). If you’re a big fan, you will definitely want to be first in line for this thing.

Now that that mystery has been sufficiently teased, I’ll let you know that we’re working on a print version of the second issue, and we’ll be doing ordering a little differently than last time. I’ll let you guys know what the deal is when things are more concrete, but I just wanted to let you know that it’s on the way, and rather soon.

And once again, thanks for reading, and double thanks for your patience with the erraticness of our update schedule.

After an unannounced mid-story vacation (sorry about that guys, I had some professional work come up and I didn’t yet have a return date for pages to give you, but now I do!), Alpha Flag will be back Thursday, April 5th, 2012. So, one week from today.

Renee and I are going to be at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend, too. Not at a booth, just walking around. If I can find a suitable place to do it, I’m going to ink the next page (Delta 07) there over the course of 3 or 4 hours on Friday or Sunday. Renee’ll tweet about it if it happens. Look for the rest tables if you’re going, and stop by and say hi.

The Delta chapter is just about to get interesting. I am excited to show it to you. Also, thanks for reading!