You’ll notice that I have changed our method of notation for individual episode chapters. There is kind of a science to coming up with something that works. It’s harder than it looks. For one thing, there is the question of how to break down and define the individual cartoons that make up the SPiS story. Our team has a lot of story to tell, enough at least for several seasons worth of traditional broadcast television. (You heard it here first, folks. We know exactly where we are going, and we know how we are going to get there (at least I do.))

For the most part, these stories will be broken down into episodes that are about thirty minutes long (also like broadcast television). Each episode is then broken down into smaller videos, which are the semi-weekly updates that you have been watching and enjoying. Internally, we have been calling these videos “chapters.” (Actually, for the most part we’ve been calling them “Ep-cha-uh…what were we calling these things again?”) This is the breakdown. 30-50 chapters make up an episode. Several episodes make up a season, and several seasons would make us really happy. That said, we reserve the right to play with form as we go forward. I am really interested in playing with our web comic roots, and having a collection of one-off cartoons, rather than thirty-second increments of a longer story (not all the time, just when we write stuff that we think is funny).

So now the old notation probably makes sense. 10103 means (Season)1(Episode)01(Chapter)03. Oy. But now we’ve simplified it! Episode 01.04 means Chapter 04 of Episode 01. Done and done.

Another consideration is cramming all the text we need into Youtube video titles and tweets. When the title of your video is “Space Pirates in Space: Episode 01.03 – The Sinister Voice of Artholomew Marvelas,” those 140 characters go pretty darn fast.

We are learning as we go here, people.

Watch: Episode 01.04 – Captain Dave

A bit of a laboratory, anyway. The Space Pirates team is trying something a bit different here, so tell us what you think.

You see, this isn’t a web series in the traditional sense. It’s not like Red vs Blue, or Megaman Dies at the End, or any any other serialized web animations, as awesome as those are. We are speaking quite literally when we say “animated web comic.” The pacing of Space Pirates in Space is more like Questionable Content than South Park. Imagine each scene happening in just four panels, and you’ll get a better idea of what we are trying to do here.

The goal is to update the site every Tuesday and Friday with new scenes, but we are in constant production, so if we get far enough ahead of you all, we will definitely accelerate our release schedule.

In the meantime, enjoy Space Pirates in Space! We are honestly very jealous of you. A great journey is about to begin. Fantastic new characters are coming up, hilarious adventures, and more than a couple dirty jokes. So stay tuned!

Watch: Chapter 01.01 – We Are in a Laboratory

So take out your smart phone and set an alarm. When Carly Rae Jepsen starts singing trhough the tinny speaker, you know it’s time for Space Pirates … IN SPACE!