A carryover post from the Hero By Night creator blog, but still something worth sharing on my personal blogs as well.  been a whiles since I've updated as the studio has been burning out lightbulbs and eyesockets at a prodigious rate the last month with all the comic book pages being colored and the digital painting going on.  As we come to the end (hopefully NOT!) of the Hero By Night webcomic this week, and start moving into posting the printed pages from the actual comic (which you really SHOULD get ahold of from your local retailer) funny things have started to happen.  What has been a DAILY part of our lives for the last 5 months, and has at times seemed to inspire, stress, bring us joy, pain, and sleeplessness (sometimes all at the same time) will be coming to an end.  It is strange to feel a certain amount of sadness creeping in with this realization, however there is also an UNDENIABLE feeling of accomplishment and pride that far outweighs the sadness.  Is this the end of doing a Hero By Night daily installment, perhaps.  However, there are still 2 more books to do yet in this 4 issue print mini-series, and seeing the great reception from fans and readers of the online comic and the print book (which will debut THIS week at Wizard World LA) is a wonderful sort of reward for all the hard work.  I don’t have the numbers in front of me, DJ would though, but I do know that the number of people checking out the online comic the last couple of weeks have been in the 5 digits.  For me that’s just stunning.  I know that being so close to the project myself, really having IMMERSED myself into the entire world that is Hero By Night for the last 5 months….I have never had more fun, or felt closer to a project that I have worked on.  Part of that, I’m sure is the fact that DJ and I not only work together extrememly well, but have also known eachother forever, have seen each others failures and successes over the years, have shared some of those same failures in fact.  Have very similar family lives, personal lives, and dispositions (although I’m sure he’ll agree that he’s a BIT more outspoken than I am-but don’t be fooled, I just sneak up on people NINJA style)  What will it be like in two months when we’re done with the print book, and HBN is no longer a part of my daily routine?  I’ve been wondering just that.  I don’t think I have an answer just now, and I’m not entirely sure that I WANT to know just yet.  I think I’d rather just enjoy the next two months to their absolute UTMOST, enjoy all the time I do have with HBN and the entire process, and see where the chips end up falling.