So who else has screwed up their 2013 already? Hands? 🙂 Aw heck, Happy New Year anyway.

Behold, it is the first ever After Daylight mini-comic! I figure I’ll mostly be using these as palate cleansers in between chapters, as an informal space where I can wander off and play around with things that are tangential to the main storyline, or comment on it, or whatnot.

I owe the “Folk Wisdom” thing to my experience as a kid working at my parents’ business. They had a free weekly suburban newspaper. Free circulation in the 70’s and 80’s meant exactly what it still means today with virtually all “free” media: first, you get all the ads placed, and then you find content to shoehorn in around it. In my parents’ case, this included some crusading reportage and hard-hitting editorial, but also a nawful lot o’ fluff and filler. Stuff off the AP wire, community events, ads for ads, and the infamous “Man on the Street” feature: in which our intrepid photojournalist would sally forth, stop random citizens as they went about their daily business, and get their opinions on the news of the day.

As a young proofreader, what I came away with was, “conventional wisdom” is usually a bit heavier on the “conventional” end than the “wisdom” end.