Yes, to answer the somewhat declaratively-posed question: the one that ended with the revelation of Nightwillow’s apparent actual name was page 24 of Canto V, and therefore the end of the chapter. No, not much happened in that chapter. Sorry about that. If it wasn’t obvious I’m now making this up as I go along.
By extension, yes, last week’s Azzy/Astoroth exchange was something else; something I was able to do in about an hour, which I quite enjoyed. Did you?
I haven’t thought of any good ideas as to how to potentially reinvent Canto VI that are labor-unintensive. I think it could be a good book: our heroes meet a fourth human soul kicking against the pricks and endeavor to stop a zealous, crocodile-mounted traffic cop from yet another plane of being. But, you know. Drawing it is kind of feeling like a rep grind again, and since this iteration was pretty much a necromantic exercise I fear another break coming on while I focus the little slice of Hell’s Corners-allotted time into Next Town Over until the proposals are out the door, and by then I will probably have some thoughts on Canto VI. I’m thinking a couple months, this time; not a couple years.
In the interim, I might do something with this Azzy-in-a-banal-copypasta-sitcom thing.
Let me know what you guys are thinking.
I love the Azzy-in-a-banal-copypasta-sitcom thing!
Its fine with me, I don’t want you to get burned out again!
I’m huge on letting The Creator rest and recharge and do whatever it takes to see the whole story play out, eventually.
Creators burning out while Creating is not something I want to risk.
If it makes you feel any better, I can halfheartedly whine and bitch about the delay, aka any GRRM fan.
My understanding is that HC has a fairly small group of devotees who don’t collectively contribute a huge amount financially. If so, there’s no conceivable reason to draw it out of “obligation.” Unless the “obligation” is “do something creative of some kind,” but maybe the creative thing that appeals at the moment is Next Town Over. So be it, then.
I’m personally not so big on the “demons discussing banal stuff” school of comedy. Of course the advantage of the Internet format is that any such extended thing can be a full Canto, or can instead run for exactly the number of panels it seems to deserve before moving on to Canto VI proper.
In short, do what you want. And I don’t think anyone will disagree with that.
It would have more followers if she advertised, and if the archives worked better. I’ve been doing what I can to get her more readers, and I know I have at least 10 more people reading it, even if they don’t comment often… or donate.
Thanks for the feedback, sundogs.
FS, point taken about the archives. It was hard making time just to start drawing the comic again, and what was supposed to be a temporary new site sort of clung on without me getting the intended ComicPress rig running. In any event your championing of the comic has always been appreciated.