I really wish there was some way for Paul to continue once or twice a week on the main page while still making the animations that now seem to be his obsession.
We need more new content
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Opus the Poet
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We need more new content
As much as I love the videos, the amount of time it takes one guy to draw and animate even a few minutes of video means we get weeks without content on the main page
I really wish there was some way for Paul to continue once or twice a week on the main page while still making the animations that now seem to be his obsession.
I really wish there was some way for Paul to continue once or twice a week on the main page while still making the animations that now seem to be his obsession.
I ride my bike to ride my bike, and sometimes it takes me where I need to go.
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AnotherFairportfan
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Re: We need more new content
You'll get no argument from me...
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
Re: We need more new content
Agreed. The "We'll still be here when you get back from your break" philosophy is a good one, and quite fair when the breaks are due to vacations, emergencies, family concerns, or other short-term overwhelms. It feels as if we're long past that, in this case.
This feels like a long-term change of direction, amounting to an abandonment of the strip itself as an artistic and authorial medium. I don't know if it's possible for any author to maintain a strong story-line and reader engagement with these sorts of long, indeterminate halts.
The Forum shows this clearly enough... there's little activity and few people checking in, and none of the recent discussions have been about Wapsi Square per se. There are more "bot" postings than real ones, these days, and all but one or two of the last thousand Forum user registrations have been bots (I purge and ban several of each every day).
I hope it's not already too late, but I fear that it is.
This feels like a long-term change of direction, amounting to an abandonment of the strip itself as an artistic and authorial medium. I don't know if it's possible for any author to maintain a strong story-line and reader engagement with these sorts of long, indeterminate halts.
The Forum shows this clearly enough... there's little activity and few people checking in, and none of the recent discussions have been about Wapsi Square per se. There are more "bot" postings than real ones, these days, and all but one or two of the last thousand Forum user registrations have been bots (I purge and ban several of each every day).
I hope it's not already too late, but I fear that it is.
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jwhouk
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Re: We need more new content
It is a bad thing when Real Life Comics updates more often than you do.
Of course, there's been a little bit of a change with the main character.
Of course, there's been a little bit of a change with the main character.
"Character is what you are in the dark." - D.L. Moody
"You should never run from the voices in your head. That's how you give them power." - Jin
"You should never run from the voices in your head. That's how you give them power." - Jin
Re: We need more new content
Paul replied to a question about this in the Pen Launch comments, a couple of days ago:
Paul Taylor wrote:Thanks much for checking in, I plan to start the comic back up this Fall. I’ll be sure to make an announcement here about that in a couple days so folks don’t worry. ^_^
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lake_wrangler
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Re: We need more new content
Snrk... Might have been nice to make a similar comment on his own website...Dave wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:16 pm Paul replied to a question about this in the Pen Launch comments, a couple of days ago:
Paul Taylor wrote:Thanks much for checking in, I plan to start the comic back up this Fall. I’ll be sure to make an announcement here about that in a couple days so folks don’t worry. ^_^
*quietly discards pitchfork and torch*
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AnotherFairportfan
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Re: We need more new content
I trust Paul ... but i've been burnt before.
OTOH, Shattered Starlight just posted its first new page since March a week or so ago...
OTOH, Shattered Starlight just posted its first new page since March a week or so ago...
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
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Drakkenmensch
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Re: We need more new content
Yeah, I've seen a lot of comics I love get abandoned over the years and I'd hate to see Wapsi Square go the same way.