I have to say, I enjoyed the pages considerably. They were very entertaining! Mari is adorable; Sarine, Sara, AND Jon look good in bathing suits (what we could see of them); and while it's depressing to learn boomboxes exist even in the ES world, at least if someone like Jon asked for them to be turned down, you KNOW it would be.Imp-Chan wrote:The mini comics aren't actually story content, they're omake. Any donation is enough to see them, there's no minimum (though I'd appreciate it if you aimed at $2 or more due to the PayPal fees). I did debate putting them in the store, too, but since we switched store systems it makes a lot less sense to do that, because we'd have to set a pretty high minimum price to cover processing costs (which is one of the reasons we have no download products at all right now). They're actually doing pretty well without that, though. So far, the mini-comics are the only pages Michael has ever done for which he's gotten a fair industry-standard page rate in return. That's not really surprising, though, as most webcomic artists don't make anywhere near as much as they're worth.
I do wonder what life is like for Jon and Sarine, now, though. And how twitchy their neighbors might be.
Good on both of you for not giving up! Speaking as someone who has been down in the pit of depression, I encourage you to keep at it. With time, and anti-depressant drugs, life DOES eventually stop being a gray fog in which you feel nothing you do or are is of any consequence, and things get better...Imp-Chan wrote:I do understand and share your concerns about getting Poe back to creating, but the man is burned out and deeply depressed. It's everything I can do to keep him making progress on the books and interacting with the world, and sometimes we neither of us can manage even that. He is not up to the grind of running a new comic all the time, and we're all just going to have to live with that right now, Poe included. Of course I would rather have an active and eager readership just waiting to buy the books, but since nothing we are able to do right now will produce one, we're just going to have to do our best without that. We do realize our own position and what will be needed to make a kickstarter work, and I do have a plan to ensure it gets enough exposure to bring in new buyers in addition to existing readers when the time comes. If you want to brainstorm ideas to help with that, I'm very happy to hear them, but please don't expect us to alter reality to accommodate the ideal way of going forward. We know we're in a crappy position, but our choices are either give up or do what we can. It would be nice if more people appreciated that he's still working on this stuff at all, and hasn't just said fuck it and walked away. It's because there are fans who care that he's even still trying.
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