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A new home for North Bound (again!)
Wednesday, October 21st, 2026 08:55 pmAs part of the migration/archiving activities as Pillowfort Laundry Day looms, I'm once again spurred to try to give my massive Yu Yu Hakusho prequel fancomic, North Bound, a proper home! Here it is!
https://yyhnorthbound.thecomicseries.com/
I can't figure out how to make the default page the overall cover of the project, so I just set it to the About page and slapped the cover on there for now. I'll look into some other options later.
The actual comic pages and art files were not difficult to find, thankfully, as I (usually) name things with a consistent date format. I also have most of the files in one place in some semblance of order from making image sets on Pixiv. The thing is that I'm particular about wanting to carry over the original commentary as much as possible. All the world-building and behind-the-scenes comic-making thoughts feel as much a part of North Bound as the comic pages to me - that whole experience of creation and fun fandom discourse (even if it's just with myself). So I have like 3+ windows being referenced while uploading pages, trying to find and copy comments from different sites and cross-reference links and stick them in the right place with dates and everything. What can I say... hoarder/archivist at heart, I suppose.
As mentioned, this is not my first attempt. Years ago I brought North Bound over to SmackJeeves, the same time I took Now Recharging there. It did quite well and was even featured by the SmackJeeves Twitter account, which I found extra hilarious since Jeeves is a butler and Hokushin is also a manservant. (Admittedly I was mildly annoyed that the fancomic was featured instead of the original comic, but to be honest I don't know that its fancomic nature had anything to do with it. Maybe more because yokai make everything cool. Supernatural semi-historical drama versus cozy robot slice-of-life, a tough matchup, haha.)
I remember having a great experience with SmackJeeves' mass uploader, and I was pleased to find ComicFury's version pretty user-friendly too. While I don't remember all the details of my SJ mass upload experience (aside from "It was good, I liked it"), it reminded me very much of it. I understand it's because CJ was heavily inspired by SJ? In any case, it helped a lot, and I have the cast page and some background info pages up with images, so I'm pleased. I already updated the reference link on the PIxiv archive, and once everything is further along and I'm not stressing as much from other things I have to do (upcoming events and other work and volunteer commitments etc.) I'll start updating all the AO3 links accordingly.
Soon, all my hundreds of pages of Hokushin lore and love will all be together again! Mostly.
https://yyhnorthbound.thecomicseries.com/
I can't figure out how to make the default page the overall cover of the project, so I just set it to the About page and slapped the cover on there for now. I'll look into some other options later.
The actual comic pages and art files were not difficult to find, thankfully, as I (usually) name things with a consistent date format. I also have most of the files in one place in some semblance of order from making image sets on Pixiv. The thing is that I'm particular about wanting to carry over the original commentary as much as possible. All the world-building and behind-the-scenes comic-making thoughts feel as much a part of North Bound as the comic pages to me - that whole experience of creation and fun fandom discourse (even if it's just with myself). So I have like 3+ windows being referenced while uploading pages, trying to find and copy comments from different sites and cross-reference links and stick them in the right place with dates and everything. What can I say... hoarder/archivist at heart, I suppose.
As mentioned, this is not my first attempt. Years ago I brought North Bound over to SmackJeeves, the same time I took Now Recharging there. It did quite well and was even featured by the SmackJeeves Twitter account, which I found extra hilarious since Jeeves is a butler and Hokushin is also a manservant. (Admittedly I was mildly annoyed that the fancomic was featured instead of the original comic, but to be honest I don't know that its fancomic nature had anything to do with it. Maybe more because yokai make everything cool. Supernatural semi-historical drama versus cozy robot slice-of-life, a tough matchup, haha.)
I remember having a great experience with SmackJeeves' mass uploader, and I was pleased to find ComicFury's version pretty user-friendly too. While I don't remember all the details of my SJ mass upload experience (aside from "It was good, I liked it"), it reminded me very much of it. I understand it's because CJ was heavily inspired by SJ? In any case, it helped a lot, and I have the cast page and some background info pages up with images, so I'm pleased. I already updated the reference link on the PIxiv archive, and once everything is further along and I'm not stressing as much from other things I have to do (upcoming events and other work and volunteer commitments etc.) I'll start updating all the AO3 links accordingly.
Soon, all my hundreds of pages of Hokushin lore and love will all be together again! Mostly.
