Reveals!

Indeed! I'm trying to get the comic moving a long a bit more, or at least feeling that way. It's hard though. I started a lot of stuff thinking the comic would become some big cool thing on the interwebs and it'd last for years n' years n' years (like 8-bit). Wishful thinking, for sure.

Anyway, looking back on things I probably should've paid less attention to making it famous* and focused more on keeping the story nice and simple. I've dug a bunch of holes and it seems most of my script work these days involves me digging my way out of them.

Interest in the comic doesn't seem very high, and I'm not really in the mood to fight it anymore. I'm mainly working right now to "finish" the comic as strongly as possible. It'll be easier to walk away from it then!

It's definitely been a learning experience.

*Like, I'd always think "Will readers like this? Should I do this instead?" and end up overcompensating and doing things I may not have done otherwise. I've always tried to do as good of a job as possible, but I'm definitely way too influenced by what people say (or don't say). Gonna try to change that.

Yeah, ignore what the audience says and make the story you want to make how you want to make it.

Trying to cater to the masses usually just ends up making something that feels lacking in both direction and passion. While writing the story you have a passion to tell allows people to share in that passion.

If that makes sense.

I mean I'm not a professional author or anything, but it's what I've seen and what I've felt in what amateur hour shit I have done.

Edit: Also I'm a bit surprised that I haven't heard about it anywhere else, as the Dreadful is very good. I'd rank it up there with a lot of the other webcomics that people tend to gravitate towards, though it's hard to make direct comparisons between artistic works and their quality as it's all very subjective. I mean, I can't say it has the same je ne sais quois of Gunnerkrigg Court or the adorableness of Cucumber Quest, but it does have fantastic art, a solid western story, and great characters, and, I'd say, is at least as good as, if not better than (personally, I like it much better, but trying to stay as objective as possible), things like Order of the Stick and Erfworld that the internet seems to love so much.

Really? That's a shame, it feels like things are really starting to come together for the Dreadful.

Well I'm not going to end it right this second or anything. It'll be awhile yet. I don't want things to feel rushed or forced.

And who knows? If it looks like it's gonna end up being a big hit and/or I can make money off of it I might keep it going. I'll do that on its own website though. I think that would benefit it a lot.

No matter how good it is, while it's here, it will never get out of the shadow of 8-bit.

Yeah. I feel like I'm trying to do it all. Like I want to do it my way, but I want everyone to enjoy it, and I want it to be popular, but I want it to be super unique and stuff. So I end up throwing in a little of this and a little of that and next thing I know I'm 10 pages into a tangent and I have to do 10 more pages to get myself out of it.

:aaa: ARRGH!!! Why does Kit keep getting sidetracked?!

So that's why... Well, Red Mage would explain it as Kit needing the XP from side quests to be able to beat Jeanne Noelle. :dance:

I'm pretty sure that trying to cater to everyone is what mainstream media is already doing, and that sounds like a tough beast to compete with. Certainly seems much better to stick to your own guns and hope that people will like your stuff. It might not work out, but the chance should be a lot higher than trying to do big media stuff with a tiny budget.

But they... but I... you... wat.
 

I... you... wha-... HUH?!?!

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Enter Shichiko and Hachiko.

Don't fuck with them.

I'm beginning to question the plausibility of some things in this comic.

Was there ever anything plausible about this comic?