When I first started doing this comic, the plan was to update it a chapter at a time about once a month. It's what I did for the first three chapters. It was working out well.
Somewhere along the line, folks convinced me to update once a week, that this would increase readership and make the comic better.
Except the pacing of the story is such that it makes more sense and is more entertaining when read in large chunks rather than spaced out. So readership fell. Dramatically. And my ability to make good pages fell. Dramatically. These were always supposed to be short stories in a series. Posting a couple pages per week makes as much sense as Lemony Snickett publishing a couple pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events per week rather than doing it every time he finished a whole book. I know most webcomics update page-by-page, but it's not working for this one.
There are lots of ways to follow this comic and be alerted right when it updates, so you don't even have to keep visiting to see if there's an update. There's also a status bar below the comic that gives an estimation of when the next chapter will be ready.
I know some of you are gonna hate this, and I'm gonna be sad to see you go. I hope most of you stick around because these comics are gonna be a lot better in the future, though less frequent. Thanks for understanding.
yay! I think that’s great. I can think of a few other comics that would benefit from such a schedule.
That’s why God invented RSS Feeds! ^_^
I can’t decide whether to be glad that I’ll be able to read coherent chunks all at once or sad that I have to relearn that patience thing.
I guess the coherent dealie worked well in the beginning, and, much as waiting more than ten seconds sucks, this comic deserves to be read as chapters so you can really appreciate it…. so gladness rules.
It appears that my first sentence was a lie. I am a monster. I am not proud of what I did, I apologise.
I’m not going anywhere. You’re the author and artist. You need to do this how you’re comfortable, not how other people think you should. You tried it their way, now do it yours!
i’m glad to hear you going back to the old system. i subscribe via google reader, but with one or two pages at a time i found myself skipping them. last week i came back and caught up and fell in love with your work all over again. i think the short story approach worked and will do so again! good luck and i can’t wait to see what you’ve got for us in a few weeks…
I think the chapter system worked great, so I’ll still be here too!
SOOOO happy about this- I would much, much rather read in chunks every so often to get a better idea of story. (To put in an EXTRA 2 cents, same goes for Lesbian Pirates….)
I’m glad you’re switching back. I know from reading through the previous chapters in big chunks that I enjoy that format better for this comic, but I couldn’t keep myself from checking each new page as it came out. I hope you don’t worry about it too much.
If people can’t deal with the schedule of the artist, it is their problem, not the problem of the artist. People work best when allowed to work at their own pace. Kudos!
I just want to say thank you for switching the Schedule back.
I guess I’m not happy about this (I prefer regular fast paced uploads), but I’ll have to adapt. :/
yay ^^
for most comics, I like weekly updates. Mostly because I get very curious and needing to know what’s gonna happe next. But M.Y really works out differently. And you should always follow your guts, that’s actually most of why we love you so much
I totally voted for a chapter at a time in that poll! It really suits this comic so much better!
Will you ever update the % complete/estimated date bar? :/
I fully support your decision to work at your own pace!