Author! Author!
| May 6th, 2010I was going to start this off with something witty but frankly I just don’t have the brain for it. Let’s get to the point:
I was looking through an old set of bookmarks when I found a link to this old webcomic I used to read. By the way, yes, I’m a webcomics nerd – there’s some brilliant humor to be found on comics that will likely never find their way to the newspaper. One of these days I’ll get around to coming up with a list of ones that I find are especially brilliant.
The comic in question is called A Modest Destiny. Frankly the comic itself is more or less unremarkable, but what caught my eye is the fact that it has generally been untouched for years. After a little digging it turns out the author decided he didn’t like the direction it was going and decided to stop writing it. If that alone were the reason I would totally respect that – especially considering the direction it was going in really was a humorless vacuum from which nothing escaped.
No. In fact, it’s even better, he blames his fans.
His name is Squidi. You might remember him as the internet’s whipping boy a few years back when he went apeshit over someone who stole his “pixel art” – which, by the way, makes me laugh to this day. I checked out his blog and came across this gem:
People always ask me why I don’t finish AMD, and the truth is that I’m locked into a path I don’t like. I can’t change it. I can’t just finish it. I either follow it to the end I set for myself, possibly a year or more worth of comics, or I move on and hope everybody else does too.
If it were left at this, again, I’d totally respect it. However…
I sometimes consider going back to making webcomics, but AMD would always be hanging over my head. Even when I did Zombies of the Living Dead – which is only like twenty comics – I had people yelling at me every day because I was wasting my time with that and not with finishing AMD.
It’s ironic that its the fans who are keeping me from making more webcomics, but I totally understand. If I was in your shoes, I’d feel the same way.
A moment of silence to let this sink in.
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Okay.
Blaming the fans because you wrote yourself into the fucking grave. Okay. Let’s dissect this a moment.
You write a comic. It starts off good but begins to go down the shitter, although the fanbase seemingly continues to grow. Your fans demand more, you decide to stop it because the direction, by your own admission, was shitty. The fans STILL demand more even though you move onto other projects, so you decide to blame them even though it was in fact your own inability that ground your mediocre webcomic to a halt?
It’s the arrogance that just seeps out of that statement that makes me want to punch him in his sanctimonious mouth. It’s because of your fans, REALLY? Honestly I think Squidi should be grateful that anyone actually bothers to read this tripe, much less beg him for more. But looking beyond that, the fact that you hold that begging against them is just incredible. How the fuck does he have fans at this point?
My guess is that the lot of them are idiots. I can’t be sure.
Also, yes, I realize that picking on the dork of the internet is pretty low. Honestly I don’t usually go for these targeted letters of annoyance but that one sentence just made me irate. Fans, if you somehow are dumb or lucky enough to have them, should be treated at least somewhat well.
I admittedly have a thing for calling my readers complete retards but I’m fairly sure I don’t actually have any anymore.
Just a guess.
kbye
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