Many things have contributed to the lack of a new comic for today but suffice it to say that you are witnessing the beginning of the end for Turn Signals. Since I am losing my job and health benefits, with no immediate prospects, I finally got off my duff last week and inquired about what I would have to do to get Turn Signals into a book for you all to purchase to possible alleviate some of my family’s financial stress. This is what I received back:

“So, in the case of TSOALR we’ve been very happy to let you put your web
comics up as a bit of fun. However, we can’t let you make money off of
what you’re doing because of the legal precedent it could set.

So, I’m afraid there’s just no way for us to allow you to sell TSOALR
prints. I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. It’s not that we don’t
like what you do, it’s just that for various commercial reasons we’re
unable to grant you permission to make commercial gain from what is,
ultimately, selling GW-owned imagery.”

I had hoped for better, but had no evidence to believe that it would be. I have reached a point in this endeavour where the effort to put up the comic is far outpacing the return, at least monitarily. Losing one’s job can tend to put things in a different perspective and I realize that my efforts must now be directed more toward supporting my family than supporting my ‘bit of fun.’ As Webmaster Larry said the other day “that shadow was always there” and i knew it too. So for now the comic wll continue, I owe my advertisers that much at least, but it will be ending and some time soon. I’m hoping to continue with web comics, with a fully marketable property, and I’m hoping that when I find it some of you will come read it. Anyway, TSOALR will be back on Friday. See you then.

Some of you more astute readers (I’m assuming that means ALL of you) have noticed the new Bell of Lost Souls mini-banner over there ->. TSOALR and BoLS have formed a small, but meaningful, partnership and the good folks over at BoLS have got a whole new and mostly different comic (from yours truly) to post. “Game News Network” will post once a week, for now, and often star your favorite Land Raider crew. So hop on over and give it a look and while you are there also take a look at all of the 40K content that BoLS serves up every day. News, articles, pics, tactica, and now COMICS!

It’s my birfday today. Normally you would be seeing guest comics this week but things are happening in and around the TSOALR Empire that prevent me from taking the week off. Plus I forgot to mention it and have very few guest strips to post. So, on to the announcements.

1. It’s my birthday (already mentioned)
2. There will be guest content but the guest will be me and it will be the week after next. I’m going to be showcasing something new that I have been working on.
3. There will be extra TSOALR content next week also, but not here. And it will be Tuesday. Look here then for more information.
4. I am to be unemployed on February 27. Many people, upon hearing this, think that webcomicry is my profession and alas, they are incorrect. I just do this as a hobby and rely on a ‘real’ or ‘day’ job to pay bills and buy food and such. I am a graphic artist by trade and do technical illustration, flash animation, graphic design, and presentations, and I am a fair writer. I am looking for a full-time position but will also work as part-timer and/or a freelancer. If you, or anyone you know, needs graphics support please contact me here. I hope this will not affect the production schedule of any on my comics but odds are it will in some way, shape, or form. I will do my best to keep up but being unemployed is a new thing for me.
5. If you have a guest comic, or will have one in the next week or so, please send it in. Birthday Guest Week is not gone, just delayed.

Folks, by some trickery of the warp I have managed to get all of TSOALR’s previous advertisers to renew their accounts for the first half of 2009, as well as adding a new one. I have all of you to thank for that for if they were not geting traffic from you they would take their ad money elsewhere. So please give a big minion-click welcome to Rogue Market (and the new-look TabletopBattlefield podcast which used to be Army Showcase and still is, they just wanted to start your experience with the new podcast feature.)

Folks, in order to make more money with which to buy my house from the bank I am offering free EPS buttons somewhat like this:

EPS BUTTON

to everyone who buys dice this month. 1 box of dice = 1 free button. And YES SHIPPING IS INCLUDED. I may have to order a few more dice as I’m getting mighty low on supplies of FREEM dice, but they will get to you if you are so inclined to order them.

Les Seabolt, figure painter and web cartoonist of some merit, sent me this.

Folks: My internal server errors seem to have gone down quite a bit since I enable a cache plugin for Word Press. Ironically, I was too dang tired to draw a comic this weekend, but one will be up shortly. Promise.

ATTENTION! The Stuff-Mart sale is over. You may now return to your duties.

Oh wait, here are some guest models sent in by some guests.
First up:

Kren getting his Devastator Fu on from Sam Dollar.

and:

A wicked-cool Deathwatch Kill Team EPS Marine by Tobie Hurst

Hey folks, we’re back from a busy weekend of travel hockey wth some news: The classic purple borialis Emperor’s Pointy Sticks dice are back in stock! As before you are purchasing a set of 11 purple, one red dice, with the Pointy Stick on the 6 face. Also, I found, to my amazement, that there are 6 sets of 5th Anniversary Dice left over from the 5th Anniversary celebrations. Get them while they are hot! Which is now!

Chicken Dinna! Larry’s awesome puppet, Blasfo Torgen, has won the Puppet Contest , thanks, we are sure, in no small part to you, The Minions. He thanks you, I thank you. Thank you.