I know, I know… I said the next update will be on February 3rd… but those of you in the US have probably heard about the snow storm on the East coast, and, to make a long story short, we’re snowed in and the trip is canceled, and I had a whole day with nothing to do except shovel snow and draw pictures. So here’s update #37, delivered 3 weeks ahead of schedule 
I can’t think of anything to say but “Shields up!” Very dynamic.
Thanks, I felt like there’ve been too many pages with just talking heads, so I’m trying to mix things up a bit
huzzah for the snow! provider of early Tales from the Middle Kingdom update!
hope you managed to stay warm and the streets aren’t too badly snowed in.
Thanks Vonbek… the snow actually wasn’t too bad – it just had to snow all through the 3 days I could’ve flown to make it to the wedding. As soon as it was too late to fly there, the snow stopped and everything went back to normal.
@#%^* Murphy and his #@$!%& law X(
And all that snow, that bring to mind the Mongols,
their mighty caribou compound bows
and thick armored padding…leading to world conquest!
Even the great fortress Alamut of the Old Man of the Mountain
Hassan Ibn al Sabbah could not resist…(Al Qaeda’ ancester)
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/09/01/article-1308014-0AE9E27C000005DC-118_306x430.jpg
Before I started this comic I debated whether I should make a comic about the Mongols instead, ultimately I decided on the Three Kingdoms. But maybe when the Three Kingdoms story is finished I can go back and re-visit the Mongols. I mean, at the current pace I’ll probably be retired by then and have tons of time to draw
Speaking of a comic about the Mongols, and battles on the outer Western frontiers of China, there are some amazing drawings of that sort of world in a manga called (in English anyway) “Shut Hell”.
Huh… I’ve never heard of “Shut Hell”. I should check it out, I dig anything with Mongols in it
Unfortunately when you speak of Alamut, all I think of is Assassin’s Creed… (There’s a fictional version of al Sabbah called al Mualim in the game.)
Now that is a good game. My wife and I went to Italy a couple years ago, and we couldn’t believe how well the architecture was reproduced in Assassin’s Creed. For a couple months after the game came out our favorite thing to say to each other was “let’s kill some people in Italy”