Abbeycourt Manor 2 coming up - But not quite ready (Patreon)

OK, I've got about 35 pages of the new Abbeycourt Manor written that I'm VERY satisfied with, and I'm really confident that it will be as funny as the first Abbeycourt Manor book. However, there are still some big gaps in the plot that I haven't figured out, and I don't want to start producing and uploading these comics until I've got a really solid idea of where I'm going.

Under normal circumstances, I'd probably just tell you all that I'm going to go silent for a while in order to get this written up and ready to go, and I feel pretty confident that most of you would understand. Once I have everything written, the comics don't take too long to produce and I'd probably make up for the downtime pretty easily.

BUT, I'm now close to starting to post the baseball arc on free platforms, and I really want to try to get that posted before the MLB playoffs are over while it's still topical.

This isn't a voting thing where I'm trying to get you to decide what I do, I'm just trying to give you an idea of what to expect.

I MIGHT post that baseball arc ahead of turn on Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr, etc. and re-build my 100-page backlog on here afterward. I realize that "100 pages ahead" is sort of my selling point for this Patreon, so if that prospect makes you feel cheated, please let me know.

I MIGHT just do another low-stakes Powerup Comics arc on here to tread water while I'm writing the Abbeycourt Manor stuff so that I can maintain the buffer and still get the baseball arc out to the public.  But I've had a very limited time for comics lately, and I'm concerned that this will only push Abbeycourt Manor back even further. I thought that this weed arc was going to be "treading water" too, but I did not make that much progress on Abbeycourt Manor behind the scenes while I was working on that too.

I MIGHT just dive in and start posting Abbeycourt Manor with only a vague idea of my eventual endpoint, trusting my wits to resolve the storyline. This is, to be fair, my usual writing process and hasn't resulted in a complete breakdown yet, but I would hate it if this particular comic was where I finally wrote myself into a corner.

Not totally sure what I'm going to do but I want to figure it out fast so that I can keep the comics moving to general audiences, especially since they're in the climax of the Gamer Dilbert story right now. Let me know if you have any insights.