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[PageTurnerComics]

Hey guys! Name's Andrew Herrera and I'm actually joining here to begin submitting my own work. Always loved the way the site looks and feels, so I'm super-excited to be submitting my own work here starting today Chapters 1 + 2 will be available immediately upon approval with new mini-chapters (hopefully) weekly. Now that I've explained myself, my first question is can someone link me to the place to request a contributor memberhip?

[Caek]

Forums, under Comic Hosting section. Can't miss it, says "Contributor Requests"

 

Might take a little while to get approved, so make sure you follow the application instructcions. Apart from that, welcome!

[svines85]

Hi, welcome to batoto, it's nice to meet you

 

And good luck on your project

[Doomedsoul74]

I look forward to reading your works.

[PageTurnerComics]

Hey and thanks a lot, guys! Sorry for the late reply, there's suddenly a lot going on since they discovered lead and arsenic in our soil 0.o (I live in East Chicago, Indiana). Thanks for the info, Caek, and I'll be getting on that right now so that our subscribers can have faster access. Thanks again for all the kind words ^.^

[Natureboy]

Umm.  "Pressure treated lumber" used to have a ton of arsenic in it--like enough to kill several people baked into each floor joist or full-length landscape timber. If it were burned or left to decay in place, a lot of arsenic would be released into nearby soil.  Also with the amount of lead released in "ethyl" (premium) gasoline during most of the 20th century, most places that have had a lot of car traffic for a long time have large amounts of roadside lead from vehicle exhaust.  ("Ethyl" was short for tretraethyl lead or (CH3CH2)4Pb--the main additive formerly used to increase combustion temperatures/pressures in "high octane" gasoline.)  Because of all the decades of lead release from internal combustion engines, nowhere on Earth's surface is free from human lead contamination. There are even traces of lead in Antarctic glacial melt-water.

 

The key things are: How much lead? What are the routes for human ingestion of the lead and/or arsenic-contaminated soil? and Is the soil arsenic getting into groundwater in significant amounts? Anyway, I hope the response is measured, well-engineered and appropriate.

 

All that aside, welcome!

[Zero King]

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