Hey hey Messenger readers! Long time no…post. I have a few updates!

For upcoming schedule news, please check out our blog at Radiochio.com. A shiny new news post is coming soon since it’s the start of the month, which will include everything that’s happening with the comic.

The Chio Club Sticker Tier is now open for membership!

For $12/month, you’ll get all the other exclusives of other lower membership tiers, including early access to a month’s worth of Follower pages, behind the scenes info, and more, plus a physical sticker each month. Stickers will be mailed out at the end of each month, after the billing cycle has completed successfully. The price includes shipping.

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Thanks so much for checking this out! I swear, Messenger hasn’t fallen off my radar; life has been a bit wild in the past year with unexpected moving, new health diagnoses that have made drawing a little hard, and everything else. *gestures at everything* Your readership and support is much appreciated.

It’s…been a while! Hi!

Messenger’s been in a bit of a cryogenically frozen state for quite some time now, mostly due to real life circumstances getting in the way of making two comics at once. Of the two, Follower is easier to get done in an “anywhere, anytime” kind of mode, but Messenger is not so simple.

That said: it’s on my agenda to get some new pages up within the next few months and get this going again. Like they have for everyone, 2020-2021 have been extremely unkind to us over here at Radio Chio, and we’ve sort of in a temporary living situation until some of the aforementioned real life circumstances work themselves out. That said: we’re lucky to have people in our lives who care about us and haven’t let us become homeless. I’ve finally gotten to a place where I can start to sort through what needs doing for Messenger, as well as make a little workspace I can use to get back on track.

New pages-in-progress will, of course, first go up for Patreon (and Chio Club) folks. What’s the Chio Club? It’s basically everything that goes on Patreon, but Ko-Fi and Gumroad flavored, for folks who’d prefer to use other platforms. Everyone who joins gets access to a special section of our Discord, as well as early looks at new pages and other behind the scenes material. Joining one of these would really help us at this time, as well as help make our goal of making $100/month in subscriptions. That would allow Bug some additional time spent away from other projects and the ability to overhaul the comic sites and touch up some of the pages along the way for eventual print. This will also extend to Messenger, although the focus is on Follower for now. You can find out more about this plan on the Follower blog!

In short, your support will make a huge difference in getting Messenger back to regular updates after a long, long break. Becoming a Chio Club member will get you early looks at what’s to come, and will help us survive what’s been an awful two years in a lot of different ways. Either way, updates are coming in the next few months, one way or another.

Thanks for reading this comic for so so long, and for supporting our work! I haven’t forgotten Messenger, and I’m doing everything I can to get back to it!

I’m planning to have the last bit of chapter 14 ready to go by early spring of this year. Life has derailed my progress on this comic so many times, and 2020 was probably the worst of it. But it’s 2021 now, so we’re going to get past that and finish. This. Chapter. Ugh. I’m going to post new pages to Patreon first (as usual) and I’m also planning to stream some of the work on them, so if you’d like to get an early look or just help the comic keep going, support Messenger on Patreon!

In other comic-related news, we’re running our first-ever Kickstarter this month! As part of Kickstarter’s Make 100, we’re making a batch of 100 enamel pins of Dia from Follower! If you need more Chio in your life, make sure to grab a pin. There are other rewards, too, like comic downloads and holographic stickers, so there’s something for everybody. If this Kickstarter goes well, it’ll help us figure out other Messenger-related projects for the future (Icy plush, anyone?) so give it a look or a share! 

Thanks for reading, and once again, have a safe and happy new year!

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Regular comic updates are coming this fall! Subscribe to our Patreon for previews and behind the scenes content!

This is an update post mostly to let you know that after a lot of thought, I’ve decided to take December off from public updates. I’ll still be updating on Patreon, but I need a bit of time to rebuild a buffer so we can start 2020 right! Delade and I also need time to finalize the script for the next chapter of Follower, since the end is coming up faster than seems possible. 

You can follow us on Patreon, Twitter, or join our email list for schedule updates! Right now I’m planning on starting updates again January 8th.

Thanks again for another year of readership, and we’re looking forward to 2020! 

I also posted a video showing a bit of how last week’s page was made! This is some of the kind of stuff you can see when you become one of our patrons!

Maybe we’ll get out of these old tunnels sometime soon?

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Thanks for your continued readership and support, and if you want to see more of the next few pages before they’re finished and posted here, you can always subscribe to us on Patreon!

See you in a few weeks!

This place just gets darker and creepier.

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