Comments on: A New Update Schedule

By: Joel Monka

Joel Monka — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:19:24 +0000

Dude, I appreciate what you’ve done, and look forward to whatever you can put out in the future. Follow your own joy on your own schedule, and I’ll happily read it!

By: Kasai Zyth

Kasai Zyth — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:39:28 +0000

I’m still checking the comic every week or so. I’m not giving up on this.

But please don’t let it die… please…

By: Evilbob0

Evilbob0 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:56:22 +0000

Whelp. That is sad. Definitely hope to see you on the other side.

I did LOL a lot at the “Dresden Codak update schedule” reference though. That webcomic truly does take forever to update. Let us know, I guess when you’re ready to start back up again!

By: Logan

Logan — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:52:33 +0000

Shifting to dead comics list for me

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:45:12 +0000

Well, that’s it, I’m afraid. Fifty days since a new update, which was my arbitarily picked deadline. This is no longer a web comic. It’s an infrequently updated gallery site.

I wish you all the best, but I wont be here to see it…

By: None1

None1 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:33:19 +0000

Me still sad…

By: Trakonor

Trakonor — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:21:26 +0000

I am a bit ambiguous about this…
On the one hand I know what perfectionism can cause. (and that is what I read from your “I’m going to take all the time it takes until I’m satisfied”).
On the other hand I can totally agree with Rick.

Try to make a compromise with your perfectionism and your audience. Otherwise you might loose readers quite fast and this would be nothing I wish you. (Allthough I am currently reverting back from daily manual update checks to feed based weekly checks which is close to “XYZ? Abandoned project, right?”)

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:36:31 +0000

This is going to sound harsh, but you are deluding yourself. How? You stated above that the reason why you started this in the first place was to force you to draw regularly to improve your skill. That that stated reason is now obsolete because it has now become a habit to draw.

With all due respect – rubbish!!

Your writing schedule over the last six months or so has been terrible. Erratic at best, non-existent at worst. Certainly, real life requirements have been a factor and that is understandable. But your current stated reason? Sorry, no.

You want to improve your drawing style. Great. More power to you. But if it is going to take a month or more for a single page to be considered good enough, then you are focusing on the wrong area. Because that way lies ultimate death, as you keep looking, keep seeing flaws, keep going back and changing things, and keep on not putting anything out…. Accurate description of what you are currently going through?

My opinion – focus on deadline work. If you are thinking about making a career out of this, you are not going to find many publishers who are going to be willing to wait the sorts of timeframes that we have been seeing here. They are going to want them on a much more regular basis. So, set a deadline and STICK TO IT! Once a week, once a fortnight, doesn’t matter. But stick to it. Keep working on the print quality masterpieces if you wish (use them as wallpapers or a way to generate revenue), but get things out. At the very least, you will still be practicing your drawing and also improving your completion times.

But if you don’t, as others have said, this will die which will be a shame.

Hope that you take this in the spirit it is offered. I really would like to see more, but….

By: None1

None1 — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:22:18 +0000

Why does every comic I read die?!?!?

By: None1

None1 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:42:07 +0000

Me sad now…sad for you…sad for comic…sad…