As some of you may know, I've been running the webcomic Game Destroyers at http://ferahgo.boldlygoingnowhere.org for a couple of years now, which I finally took to the public this past summer. I've been updating every day since mid-August (save for a filler comic here or there), and have also been working on re-vamping the beginning to not suck quite so much. You can see the new beginning in the works over at my old site, starting here . I'm re-doing about the first 30 comics or so, then I'll be continuing on through the rest of the comic, increasing the size to the 2x2 panel size, instead of the 4x1 size. Let me know what you think of the original beginning, the new beginning, the comic itself, or whatever the hell you feel like.

...While advertising the comic is the main purpose of this post, I'm also in need of a little bit of help, couldn't find any better place to put this... I'm trying to make a part of an image partially transparent using the GIMP. However, all the stuff I find when googling for help either tells me how to make a solid color completely transparent, or how to do a gradient background. It's just a small textbox, being said through telepathy by someone that's not in the room, so I think it'd look best as half transparent. While randomly searching for an example through the Bob and George archives, I came across this, the look of the character is pretty much exactly what I'm trying to get. I've been fiddling around with layer masks and such, but haven't managed anything yet. Does anyone have any idea how I can accomplish this?

Dammit all to... now I feel like an idiot... It has the same exact thing.

I'm so used to everything in the GIMP having to be ridiculous and convoluted to accomplish, yet there it is, out in the open, an opacity slider on the Layers box. Well, thanks for indirectly pointing that out, PM, comic 14 is finished now.

...So, I take it by the week's worth of no one saying anything that no one here cares about my comic?

Hacker, what'd I tell you about offering help to people who don't ask for it? It's blatantly insulting, you twit.

If I wanted another place to host my comic, I'm perfectly capable of finding a place on my own, not to mention the fact that I still have my old freeservers site. The fact that I haven't done such a thing should give you a clue that I don't want nor need a temporary site to host the comic. It's on vacation until my site admin gets his computer set up again, deal with it.