When will the next page of Weird Luck be posted?
We post one page per week. New pages are officially scheduled to appear on Thursdays, but in reality they generally go live by about 10pm Pacific Time on Wednesday.
We take breaks, sometimes long breaks, in between chapters. We use these breaks to build up the "buffer"––the stash of pages that have been completed in advance. Since each page takes more than a week to create, taking the time to build up a good buffer in between chapters is what allows us to maintain a consistent one-page-per-week schedule during each chapter.
If you haven't seen a new page for a while, it means we're on one of those breaks between chapters. During the breaks, the home page of the site will display an image from the comic, and if you scroll down, you'll see that the text below the image includes an announcement about when you can expect the next chapter to begin.
Signing up to receive Weird Luck updates by email, and following us on Patreon, Instagram, Facebook, and/or LinkedIn, will help to ensure that you don't miss the start of a new chapter!
What's the best way to read Weird Luck?
You can read Weird Luck on a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet, or a phone.
Weird Luck artist Mike Bennewitz creates two versions of every page: the desktop version, which is laid out like a classic comic book page, and the mobile version, which is designed to be scrolled through vertically, one panel at a time.
Our site will automatically detect the width of your browser window. If the browser window is wide enough to allow you to easily read the desktop version of the comic pages, you'll see the desktop version. If the browser window is too narrow to display the desktop version at a readable size, you'll see the mobile version instead.
Both versions of a page tell the same story and have the same text; the only difference is in how the images within the page are arranged.
If you sign up to receive Weird Luck updates by email, the version that shows up in your email inbox will be the mobile version (regardless of what device you're using to view your email).
Even if you usually find it more convenient to read Weird Luck on a phone or other small-screen device, we recommend checking out the comic on a larger screen when you get the chance. The classic comic page layouts of the desktop version are worth seeing (and are what the comic will look like in paperback, eventually).
What's the deal with the page numbers?
Weird Luck page numbers follow this formula: volume, chapter, page. So if a page is numbered 1.3.23, that means it's Volume 1, Chapter 3, page 23.
Chapter numbers are volume first and then chapter. So if a chapter is numbered 2.4, that means it's Volume 2, Chapter 4.
How do the other Weird Luck stories connect to the comic?
In addition to the comic, Nicky and Andrew both write stories in plain old non-comic prose form. The comic and all their prose fiction interconnect in an ever-growing web of story we call the Weird Luck Saga.
The comic is designed to stand completely on its own. On the other hand, we think that the more pieces of the Weird Luck Saga you read, the more fun it is. Some of the characters in the comic also show up in various prose fiction stories, so you end up getting to see them from different angles and at different points in their lives.
Most of the published stories so far take place sometime before the comic, so they serve in some ways as prequels.
Here's a list of stories that have direct connections to the comic, more or less in the order in which they take place (though that gets a bit fuzzy sometimes, when characters travel between universes and time passes differently in different universes):
Bianca and the Wu-Hernandez
Novelette by Nicky, published in the anthology Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber. Features Smiley and Bianca, and takes place about 28 years before the comic.
Something Nice
Short story by Nicky, published in the anthology Spoon Knife 5: Liminal. Features Bianca, and takes place about 14 years before the comic.
Ruiz and the Echo Hotel
Novelette by Nicky, published in the anthology Weird Luck Tales 8. Features Smiley and Bianca in supporting roles, and takes place about 12 years before the comic.
Waiting for the Zeppelins
Short story by Nicky, published in the anthology Spoon Knife 3: Incursions. Features Smiley, and takes place about 4 years before the comic.
The City of the Watcher Trilogy
Trilogy of novels by Andrew: Weird Luck in the City of the Watcher, Time-Traveling Blues in the City of the Watcher, and Cannibal-King. Max appears in Cannibal-King, and the trilogy's climax takes place about 3 months before the first chapter of the comic. Weird Luck in the City of the Watcher is now available in a new revised edition, and matching revised editions of Time-Traveling Blues in the City of the Watcher and Cannibal-King will be released in 2024 and 2025, respectively.
Monsters
Short story by Andrew, published in the anthology Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber. Takes place in the city of Tal Sharnis (where the comic takes place), just a couple of months before the first chapter of the comic.
Wallflower Assassin
Novel by Andrew. Features Max, and takes place several years after the comic. Bianca appears in two brief flashbacks that take place a few years before the comic.
Which Weird Luck characters are LGBTQ+?
A lot of them, sometimes in ways that defy easy classification or don't match the sort of categories we use on present-day Earth. Here's the inside scoop on the eight members of the comic's main cast...
Agent Sojac: Nonbinary and demisexual, more or less, though she doesn't think of herself in those terms.
Bianca: Gay. Also, it's complicated. Also, does Chaotic Evil count as a gender?
Max: No straight guy is that well-groomed. Exceedingly gay, entirely aromantic.
Smiley: Genderfluid and pansexual. Astonishingly good at drag.
Charles: Oblivious to categories. Will cheerfully try just about anything.
Arok: His species only has sex for purposes of reproduction, and he finds human concepts of gender, relationships, and sexuality a bit confusing. Charles' explanations don't help.
Mariel: Bisexual.
Angelica: We sent her the same questionnaire we sent the other characters, and she sent it back with one word scrawled across it in big letters: FLEXIBLE. She's been unavailable for further comment.
What are Agent Sojac's pronouns?
Gender-neutral pronouns haven't really caught on in Tal Sharnis yet, so it's mostly off-worlders who use them. As a Tal Sharnis native, Agent Sojac grew up using feminine pronouns (she/her) and didn't encounter gender-neutral pronouns as an option till she joined the Reality Patrol. At this point she continues to use feminine pronouns because she just doesn't care enough about gender to bother making the switch.
How can I support Weird Luck?
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