And now, the curtain rises.  Take a bow, you've launched (or in our case, yesterday.)

Now, it's time to party.

And there it stands, a thing of beauty on the web.

Oh for cryin' out loud! some of you are saying, it's just one frickin' page!  You're getting worked up over one freakin' page!  To which I'll tell you, no, it's not just one page.  It's the first footprint, the first step.  And every Tuesday and Thursday will come a new footstep; and hopefully within a year, three times a week, those steps will take us on a long journey, the kind of which has no real end and where the trip is just as important as the destination.

For us, a comment I made to Ayne last week says it all:  "In a few days, everything ends.  And everything begins."  All those years, those three-plus years of developing our first work, only to be turned away at the gates of Tokyopop, the wonder if we were even going to release, to admit defeat, to deal with "the real work and real jobs" – all of that is over now.  These past near-eight years, we've gone through a lot, put ourselves through the wringer and why?  Dedication to craft.  Love of what we do.  The fact that the journey – the art – is just as important as the destination – the end rewards.

Now, that battle is over.  Now, a new one begins.  Instead of 30 days of sprinting towards a final launch goal, it's the long marathon of keeping up with a rigorous schedule.  Instead of being at conventions and having people wonder when/if you'll ever launch, now they'll be wondering what happens next, what lies ahead, when do we come out with a print version?  Instead of wondering and worrying whether we'll ever succeed, now we wonder how to get this marketed to the right eyes.  Instead of people we know and were behind us, only to watch them vault ahead; now we join them in the pantheon of those whose works are out there to see.

It all ends.  It all begins.  The sprint is over, the marathon commences.  And in closing, I'll leave you with a quote:

"Ah, a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

I'd like to thank Steven Savage and the folks at Fan to Pro for lending us the keys to the car for thirty days (no, we didn't put gas in the tank; we're hoping you won't notice….) and for you reading this and enjoying, maybe even learning a thing or two.

Though this is the last daily from me, this isn't the last set of scribbles. The journey continues, and someone has to document the insanity.  So that might just be me, every so often.  Maybe even Ayne next time.  You never know.  And that's half the fun!