{"id":1178,"date":"2017-10-24T10:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:17:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:17:03","slug":"scene-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Scene Change!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story makes another abrupt scene change, as we jump from a family home in suburbia to a somewhat familiar maximum security facility.\u00c2\u00a0 This is one of those times where I think the webcomic page-a-week format probably makes the story more challenging to read, and it&#8217;s one of the reasons I&#8217;ve considered updating less frequently, but releasing several pages all at once.<\/p>\n<p>Since I started doing Henchmen for Hire back in 2010, webcomics have changed from when it made economic sense to do regularly scheduled updates.\u00c2\u00a0 I actually tried posting three (!) pages per week in the beginning, and quickly learned the challenges and pitfalls of such a frequent update routine.\u00c2\u00a0 At the moment I&#8217;m just posting a new page every Monday, and occasionally life and my &#8220;real&#8221; jobs will get in the way and cause some delay (as it did this week, which is why this is a Tuesday post.)<\/p>\n<p>I intend to keep up with the Monday updates for as long as I can.\u00c2\u00a0 I do like having some kind of structure to follow, and I like to think that there&#8217;s a core group of loyal Henchmen readers who still enjoy checking in for the once-weekly updates.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I&#8217;m looking at spinning off the adventures of Tek Girl into a new ongoing comic, and I&#8217;m thinking that I might make that comic a little more free-form as far as the timing and quantity of updates will go.<\/p>\n<p>Still thinking about it, but I&#8217;m curious how the regular Henchmen readers feel about update schedules and the like.\u00c2\u00a0 Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story makes another abrupt scene change, as we jump from a family home in suburbia to a somewhat familiar maximum security facility.\u00c2\u00a0 This is one of those times where I think the webcomic page-a-week format probably makes the story more challenging to read, and it&#8217;s one of the reasons I&#8217;ve considered updating less frequently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3,261,260],"tags":[11,54,16,115,15,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}