I finally decided to face the cold reality that I can't tie up the datamonkeys! storyline to my liking, so I'm just going to have to drop it! I guess the problem was that I wanted to start doing more serious and stylized comics instead of the simpler gag-a-week strips that were the datamonkeys! staple. Looking back through the archives, however, I can see that the recent dramatic stuff just doesn't fit in at all. :-/
I think it's particularly awkward when most visits to this site are linked through our sequence analysis web-server, and so most visitors are expecting light-hearted entertainment with a few geeky biology puns thrown in. And you should! That's what worked best (I think).
Anyhow, this is just my goofy hobby and so I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over it :-) (I'm not getting any sleep anyhow, what with the new baby.)
This week I posted one of the character design sketches for a new project that I've (foolishly) undertaken. I take about half-an-hour a night working on sketches, and this time around I'm actually planning out the plotline, setting, layout, and character identities and wardrobe beforehand. Learned my lesson the hard way :-)