Thus concludes the long, drawn-out process of the Goth House characters leaving goth house. People have asked me -- what next? Are you ending the series? Reinventing the series? Killing off all the characters?

Sort of.

The next thing that happens chronologically is, we launch into a long, ongoing series about the band on tour. But before I do that, I want to clear my head with a shorter series about the key characters meeting in high school. High school is on my mind right now (on account of my 20-year reunion which happens later tonight) and I think that a lot of the things that are going to happen to the characters in the band story are made more interesting if you know a little more about where they're coming from.

Then comes the story about the band. After that I am, yeah, kind of planning to end the series. It might begin again immediately in a new form. Or I might change my mind completely. I'm not planning to kill anybody off. But I might.

(I'm trying to build suspense here...how am I doing?)

Whatever happens, the high school series plus the band series will take a while to complete at approximately one page every two weeks. Years, actually. You notice it's taken me half a year just to get them out of goth house. So there's going to be new Goth House for quite a while yet. I reserve the right to allow the story to take unexpected turns. In fact, having them leave goth house was unexpected. I originally assumed they would take the band on tour just 'cos they wanted to, not because they were suddenly homeless. But once it occurred to me, I knew I had to to it.

The photographs used in the art this fortnight are of: Glasgow's Necropolis, London's Highgate, New Orleans' St. Louis No. 1, Bellingham's own Bayview, a cemetery by the highway out in Louisiana Cajun country, and the Stonehenge replica in southern Washington State. They were all taken by me, or by Paul Carpentier.

You know, I've been to a lot of cool cemeteries.