- or original stories based in the real world:

  One of the things with being a sci-fi pulp hack is the urge to explain every little thing because a lot of it doesn't exist in reality and you want to tell everyone about it.  I try to keep the rambling out of the comic itself, and if there's exposition it's at least being told to a character who doesn't already know the information.  In theory you can read only the comic and know what you need to know to follow the story.  If it's important, it'll be explained in-story when it needs to be.  If you want additional ( non-spoiler ) backstory and worldbuilding, the website's got character bios and whatnot.  ( Which is preference as much as 'I did the work so I have to put it somewhere' - I like when webcomics have bonus materials.  You're not limited to a pagecount, you've got a whole webpage to play with. )

  But I am limited to two pages a week, only so much fits on a page, and I want to tell the story all at once because I am an impatient bee.  Thus I go overboard on the A/Ns.  I am going to try to cut back.  However, I don't like posting art without comment, so I'm going to see about limiting myself to pointless minor trivia that would otherwise never get mentioned, but dangit I know this stuff and must pass it on somehow.

  Not that most of my readers will know this ever happened - by the numbers, the majority just read it off my site.  This is just for the minority of you on DevArt and LJ who get word-hosed every time I update.