New page of Gone Feral!possibly the last
>>150726326>spoilerwhy
>>150726395Artist decided to do something else I guess.
>>150727122Such it is. They are talented and should do what they want.
>Strong fanbase of people going out and spreading word of the comic>Financial support via Patreon>Praised, supported, and peptalked by Genuinely Big Name "transformation webcomic" people, from Valsalia (Out of Placers) to Joe England (Zebra Girl).>Some pages/art apparently paid for by commissioners>Polls directed at followers show unambiguously that they want the comic to continue"Sorry guys, I'm just not feeing it. I'm going to try to make a living drawing feet porn instead."
>>150727608>Such it is. They are talented and should do what they want.On the one hand, yes, they are talented and should do what they want.But unless he lives in Ireland, nobody's paying him a stipend just to Be An Artist. Abandoning (or "Archiving") a popular webcomic never seems to result in the creator doing better on whatever projects they try down the road. It's an industry where you really need support of fans, and he taught fans not to trust that he'll finish what he starts. I have to wonder if it does him a disservice that nobody tells him as much because they're all too busy saying "listen to your heart"
>>150726326yeahh sorry dude but I'm unsubscribing from the patreon until you continue this
In his defense he had a bunch of months where he turned off his Patreon and didn't take my money. I still want a refund.
>>150729149why does he hate his own webcomic?
>>150729204Near as I can tell he thinks he did a George RR Martin, and thinks he wrote himself into a corner (he didn't). He intended for the story to jump around a lot and for Abigail to be one of many main characters, and the way he had things set up he wasn't going to get back to her any time soon, which he figures was a problem because clearly people care more about the character than about the setting in a generalized way. He didn't see a quick way of getting back to Abigail soon without messing up the story he wanted to tell.He said as much to Valsalia who said something to the effect of "yeah, originally I didn't mean to have Yinglets dominate the story in Out of Placers as much as they did, but I altered the story because that's what fans responded to the most, and I'm still happy with how things turned out. Stick with it." (heavily paraphrased but the gist)That pep talk was months ago though, I'm guessing he didn't take it to heart.
>>150729251I think the bigger problem, and the one Valsalia understands even if he's likely to be tactful about it, is that >>150728790 is absolutely right.Artists like to imagine that starting a new project is a clean slate, but it isn't. Anyone going in can quickly discover that they abandoned the last thing they worked on, and fans of the abandoned work don't cease to exist (or cease to be unhappy about it) when the work is abandoned.A lot of works also get their fandom ball rolling well outside the creator's control. Even moderately successful artists can struggle to internalize that a lot of the fandom for a given work is likely from luck of discovery, and that "higher quality" output (by whatever metric) carries no real guarantees of building a similarly sized fandom, or reaching a sustainable fandom critical mass. Some also really struggle to come to terms with the fact that fandom is generally of a work, and not of an artist. Even sycophantic, artist-adulating fans are often really expressing their love for a given work, not their fandom of a given artist.Bottom line, you can't take the fandom with you after abandoning a work. The only exceptions are those rare instances where the new work fills nearly exactly the hole in the fandom that the abandoned work left. The more excited over novelty the abandoning artist is, the less likely that is to be the case.
>>150729590And keep in mind that some artists that were fairly "important" in his particular niche went ahead and boosted him. He got into the same webcomic circle as TwoKinds, had luminaries drop by in his streams and comments-section to say they were fans and were excited with what he was doing, giving him networking and directing some fans at him... Tossing all that and saying "I hope you'll stick around for my future projects"? You're not rebuilding that, my dude. You're not getting that back. Maybe the feet pics are a goose that lays golden eggs, and maybe you'll never get sick of drawing them. But for an artist that has any interest in storytelling, just dropping the comic - not saying "it's on hiatus" or "being reworked" or "turning into an occasional thing" or trying to at least get it to a reasonable end-page? Shooting yourself in the foot with cyanide-coated flechette rounds.
>>150728790>>150729590Personally it reminds me of the Persona and Cucumber Quest author and how the moment i realized that this was a person that just drops works and actively will begin to resent if eventually made just never want to look at any of her work again.Second to that are people who do rushjob endings where they planed it all out ahead and then compressed or cut sections to reach the final mark.Dropping part 6 of your 7 part story because you want to get on with your life is understandable, but it make a work worse and makes me less interested in your later works.
>>150730012I would rather read 20 works by authors who end going "there was so much more I wanted to tell, but I just couldn't fit it all in there and still have a life" over a single work by an author who ends his story like >>150726326The former I will give another chance, hoping they've learned something about pacing and how much they can fit.The latter I don't give another chance.
>>150729251>who said something to the effect of "yeah, originally I didn't mean to have Yinglets dominate the story in Out of Placers as much as they did, but I altered the story because that's what fans responded to the most, and I'm still happy with how things turned out. Stick with it." (heavily paraphrased but the gist)Honestly good on them. Happens on a professional level too, Kazuki Takahashi made the Yugioh manga based around various different games, both real and in-universe, but once readers saw his Magic & Wizards game, they REALLY like it, and he pivoted. Thanks to that, Konami got involved, and it's now one of the biggest TCGs in the world.
Oy. I really want to line up a bunch of these webcomic abandoners and yell "you threw away the best thing that ever happened to you."It's one thing if they have to drop it because they got a cushy job and don't have time any more, but I'm willing to bet that's not the case here, just like it wasn't with Morbi.
>>150729590>Artists like to imagine that starting a new project is a clean slate, but it isn't. Anyone going in can quickly discover that they abandoned the last thing they worked on, and fans of the abandoned work don't cease to exist (or cease to be unhappy about it) when the work is abandoned.Looking right at Poppy O'Possum>stated off strong with an interesting world with a likeable main character, who was clearly struggling in this world but tried to make the best of it for her and her kid>interesting powers, new faces both friend and foe hit the scene>after going strong for about six chapters, comic slows to a crawl with updates>artist then adopts a light novel format, swearing the story will be told>comic abandoned, last updated back in 2018, chapter 8 remains unfinished>artist's new work is about two fae folks falling in love
>>150730195>>artist's new work is about two fae folks falling in loveI'm not reading that. I remember the spite-tantrum Morbi threw, posting spoilers for the rest of Poppy's story in a salt-the-earth "I'm NEVER telling that story now!" fit of spite.Fine, you hate your fans that much, I can return the favor.
>>150730288Agreed, Morbi turned out to be such a fucking faggot. Cant believe he got raped and addicted to heroine in Chicago.
