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UTC Phase Three has finally completed its ultimate transformation… into a collected volume!


"Phase Three" is the umbrella name for Chapters 11-16 of UTC. These are the latest chapters of the comic that have been released so far, and will be the last for quite a while. They tie up most of the plot threads of the series. If you fell off reading the comic years ago, or have been waiting for a good time to read the entire thing, now's the perfect moment to dive in!


Buy the PDF here


Buy the trade paperback here (PDF included with purchase)


All 3 volumes of UTC are available digitally and in trade paperback. Buy any or all of them at this link!

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We’ve come to the end of UTC’s key storyline, and the comic is now going to enter another hiatus.

Now, the big question is whether UTC will continue with Phase Four. Unfortunately, I don’t know the answer yet. I’m definitely not ruling out the possibility, and a major reason why is because this was never intended to be the stopping point for the series.

While the major story of UTC was centered around Cass and Flint being stuck with their transformations, they weren’t supposed to truly be permanent transformations. I wanted to change Cass back one way or another, it was just a question of how and when. My original thinking was that, once she was cured, the comic would then open up to a new world of possibilities for transformation shenanigans. At the outset in 2007, though, I hadn’t imagined that it would take 16 years to get to that point.

Now, I’m 40 years old and very tired. I want to make different comics, and grow my art style in ways that drawing this comic on a regular basis wouldn’t allow.

Don’t get me wrong, I still love UTC. I still love these characters, and I still want to take you on new adventures with them. But I really need a break.

If UTC returns, it will be a long time from now. Most certainly several years. While I can’t guarantee that it will ever resume, I will say that if it does, it will be–appropriately–much different. The story can go almost anywhere from here, and there’s yet more potential in these characters and their world that’s just waiting to be tapped.

In fact, I already have a loose framework set up for Phase Four, and multiple scripts are in progress. But I’m going to take my sweet time with it. Everything could change radically between now and who-knows-when, and I will only resume the comic if I truly feel that further adventures of Cass, Flint and the gang are worth telling.

Thank you all SO much for reading UTC. Those of you who were there from the start and kept faith in me to keep it going, through all the fits and starts; and those of you who found the comic more recently and are binging it for the first time. UTC is my love letter to fans of transformation stories, and I am grateful and humbled that it’s been embraced by so many of you.

Stay tuned for news about future projects, whether they’re UTC-adjacent or something completely different. For now, you can follow me on deviantArt, Twitter, and Pillowfort for updates on whatever’s coming next.

Take care of yourselves, and keep on changing for the better.

Jim

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That's it, that's the news. After some time to rest, collect myself, and focus on other personal and professional matters, Chapter 15 is almost ready to go! Get pumped! Or don't! It'll be posted regardless.


UTC (Urgent Transformation Crisis) is my current webcomic. It features teenage scientists using untested tech to turn people into all kinds of different things and then dealing with the consequences. You can read the full series at https://www.catomix.com/utc/comic/cover1


Extra content is offered through my Patreon campaign, where supporters have the option to see new pages 24 hours earlier than everyone else, and access exclusive sketches and bonus comics, including the humorous non-canon strip "UTC: The Baaad Comics," which is exactly what it sounds like.

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First I want to welcome all of the new watchers! Thanks for checking out my work.

It's been a while since I made any UTC announcements here, so here's an update. I'm no longer uploading UTC pages on dA. But the comic is still going, and there is a brand new page today at utc.catomix.com

For those who haven't read it yet, UTC: Urgent Transformation Crisis is a webcomic about a school of teenage mad scientists (some more mad than others) who use genetic engineering to turn themselves and their friends/family/anyone-they-don't-like into animals and other common TF tropes. The comic is currently 219 pages with 10 complete chapters and much more to come.

Things slowed down in the past year because I relocated twice and had to find a new job, but that's all settled down now. I'm in a new house and I have a steady employer, with enough free time to continue working on comics. I'm going to slowly build back up to a weekly schedule for UTC, but for now the new pages will simply go online whenever I'm able to get one finished.

So go, get reading, do it now, get to the chopper, etc.
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I will be running a table in the Artist's Alley at New York Wintercon this Saturday and Sunday with my friend . We'll be selling copies of our comics, UTC and Zebra Girl, respectively, and sketching and signing and geeking out about Doctor Who and Star Trek all weekend. If you're in the area, we'd love to see you!

The con is being held at Resorts World Casino,
110-00 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11420.
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