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***NEWS & UPDATES***

1/7/08: It's a new year, a new semester, and that means time for new updates to the LDE webpage. If you take a look at the Archive page, you'll see a couple new links have been added.

First is the Singles Archive page, which features all of the stand-alone strips from the series. This is particularly for those looking to download strips for publications that only run once a week or so, to save the time of having to search through the entire lot. Also added is a Stories Archive page that gives a visual list of the LDE storylines. Enjoy! -(JK)

8/27/07: It's the start of a new school year, and that means time for big changes around here. First off, you'll notice a new feature added to the comics pages, where under each strip is a link that will take you to a hi-res version. For those of you who use "Last-Ditch Effort" in your print publications, now you can easily download the strips you want.

Also, if you head over to the Archive page you'll see that the strips have been organized by year, with thumbnails added to more easily find older strips. So here's to getting through another semester! -(JK)

5/6/07: I finally got around to making some changes to the site. The cast page has been updated to include everyone, and I've added a little counter to the top of each comic. More to come... -(JK)

3/26/07: HAPPY 100!!! It's hard to believe, but today's strip is the 100th of this comic's run. My thanks to everyone who's tuned in to read, and believe me when I say we're just getting warmed up. And if you're new to the site (and have a little time to kill), then I invite you to start from the beginning to get yourself caught up with all that's happened so far.

Unfortunately, I haven't had as much a chance to work on the website as I'd like. My main concern of course has been cranking out the comic strips themselves, but there's a lot of improvements and other things I've been meaning to update around here. Hopefully I'll start finding the time for it soon, and in the meantime, here's looking forward to the next 100 strips! -(JK)

11/27/06: NEWS ALERT!! After a brief hiatus for the cast, the guys are back and with some big changes in store. Starting this week I plan to start updating the strip three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I'll also be dropping the "Sunday-style" strips for the time being; between these two changes I hope to start bringing you storylines at a much quicker pace than I have so far.

I should note, these changes come as I finish with the bulk of my studies this semester, so whether or not I'll be able to maintain this schedule once things heat up again is something only time will tell. In the meantime, thanks for stopping by, and I hope you all continue to enjoy reading the strip as much as I do writing it. -(JK)

9/2/06: Call it a case of life imitating art: two years after saying goodbye to school for what I hoped was a long break, I'm officially back to earn my master's degree. That is to say, I'm earning one part-time, which means I can now add that workload to my existing fulltime career for the next two to three years. The updside is I'll hopefully pick up some good new material, the downside is this may make it tough to continue meeting my strip schedule, although I'll certainly do my best to keep up with it. I'll just have to give it the "old college try" (whatever that means). -(JK)

7/31/06: The Old vs. New Section is finally up! Check it out to see some side-by-side comparisons of how the look of the strip has evolved since its original run. -(JK)

7/3/06: WELCOME to the grand opening of the comic Last-Ditch Effort. This is my attempt to revive a strip that I originally drew some years back (see the Intro section for more details). My plan is to update twice a week with "daily" strips, with every fourth week presenting a single "Sunday" strip. In this way, I hope to maintain a standard newspaper comic strip sequence, except for it taking about a month's time for every "week". I'm sure this format will change in time, depending on my schedule.

At any rate, if you're reading this then please have a look around, and if you like what you see I hope you'll be back for more. -(JK)