Please come back. We miss you terribly.

Love, All of us

P.S. I’ll always check back.

I have also seen much, much longer hiatuses than this from comics I like (Marry Me, AppleGeeks, The Meek, Hanna Is Not a Boy’s Name, Doctor Cat, MadWillow), so I guess two months is not a big deal to me…

Once I like a comic, I start following nearly all the author’s social media outlets; even if the comic dies for a bit, I at least know what’s going on. All of these posts about people quitting on the comic and feeling disrespected that she hasn’t updated on the comic website itself make me realize not everyone is like me in that aspect…

This artist has been updating her Tumblr daily, as well as creating other art and comics. So it appears she is just ignoring THIS comic, THIS group of fans. She is not taking 60 seconds to post a line or two to let people know if this comic is even still to be active.There is really no way any of us can assume the meaning behind that, it it comes of as that she just doesn’t care.

No one has been rude, or greedy, or insulting. No one here has acted entitled. I have seen only polite discussion, as well as an UNDERSTANDABLE request for information and clarification so people can stop wasting their time checking. Considering the role fans play in the long run, that seems to be a perfectly logical and fair query. Megan DID after all ask us how we felt regarding the updates. That kind of tells people, “hey, I care how you feel!” By completely ignoring that and discontinuing communication is going to create a lot of confusion no matter what.

I would never belittle the time, creativity and effort Megan puts into this wonderful comic. But when it comes to communication, it is simply the smart (business-wise), easy (is it really so hard to do?), reasonable and polite thing to post a line or two so readers know what is going on.

The rebel(or child) in me immediately wants to do the opposite, whenever I am pushed…perhaps that’s what we’re all doing to Megan here?

Still, I keep my opinion.
Yes, I understand that once a story is “out there”, it doesn’t belong only to the author anymore. Specially when it is an awesome story, we all get attached to the characters. It mobilizes our emotions – anxiety, curiosity – so in some way we need some closure (even if it is a partial one). We have every right to feel sad/frustrated when a story freezes.
What I don’t agree with are the ways some people tries to deal with this, trying to make the author feel shitty about it.
It is not “ass-kissery” to give my oppinion: I believe that Megan does an awesome work – as an storyteller, and as a graphic artist. I don’t know how much time does she take to make one page of M Yogurt, but I’m pretty sure it takes a lot. Time AND effort – well, that’s what actually “work” means ^^
I don’t remember right now how many pages did Megan post of this story, but I’m sure there’s A LOT of work in there. Is she being paid for this? I don’t believe the sponsors, or the donations covers for that. I also don’t believe anyone can compare THAT work, to the “tiresome task” of taking 30 seconds each day to click on the webpage and the sponsor’s sites (as important that is).
Of course, money is not the only thing that provides satisfaction at work. To keep up fans, enjoying and commenting you’re work, feeds a lot. And yes, Kiki, fans should be respected! But still, it is hard for me to understand Megan’s delay to respond as literally “disrespect”.

If it makes us sad that she hasn’t posted, or sent any news.. yeah, we miss her, we miss the comic. But that doesn’t make it right for anyone to act like her boss/supervisor/teacher, telling her “do this or you’ll be a failure”, etc.
(I’m writing this about her, but the same applies to other webcomics)