Recycled Sushi

Hi kiddoes,

A quick announcement. I'm mulling over an idea. I'm kind of tired of the loose story going on and may be deciding on ending Eccentricity. The characters won't disappear. They're going into a new, cohesive, silly story I wanna pursue. I just don't like reading "I don't get your comic" from other people, so I'm probably gonna end it soon. There's a lot I have to do in the back-end and I still gotta wrap up the new arc.

Basically, I want to keep the core characters and the world, but attach a new storyline and go with something remotely cohesive, less of a drama-serious tone and go back to a Tuesday/Friday format. Perhaps make it a 4-panel comic strip instead of the loose page update. I haven't decided. Essentially, I've reached a point not where I'm tired with my comic or what it's become. I'm just tired of people telling the comic doesn't make sense. I'm sorry, but it does when you take in big-picture.

Anubis wants to conquer and enslave Terran. He plans this out by creating cute little dog/kitty creatures to endear themselves to the Terran population. At some point, he unlocks Lee's demonic being and helps Lee transition back to his family's Dark Law company. Lee has his own plans for the planet as well, and for a brief moment decides to team up with Anubis. Plans slowly move forward on both Anubis and Lee's behalf; Anubis spreading the fenines and fenine puppies around and Lee undermining the guidelines of Dark Law and the Triune. And just when it starts getting good, Lee pulls back and decides to betray Anubis. And this is where story currently lies. And that's fine. I catered to certain fans that wanted to see the story head in this route.

But, while I want to end this story, I don't want to shelve the whole world. I'm just tired of doing the serious story. It's been in a serious tone for well over a year. And then there's the crap in the backend story management system that I'd have to contend with just to start a new story. I'm thinking ahead for my career image, and revamping the entire website. It's going to be the front-end for my consulting firm and the future graphic design portion of the company. And the Comics will be hosted under their own section.

I guess I'm just feeling depressed again about the comic (probably life in general) and the comic is one of my joys. It's my three-year-old baby and I want to see it grow and evolve. To me, it's not ending the comic. It's moving it from its infant stage into its toddler stage (under the name of "Eccentricity 2.0″). It's a progression of my art and will continue to be a progression of my art. I don't know. I guess I see the numbers but I rarely hear from more than 15 people at any given time as far as feedback, and usually it's negative from people expecting a comic to be funny. They're not all funny. They don't all make sense. I was upset years ago when Non-Sequitor started having a storyline. It bothered me that it wasn't very non-sequitor anymore. I guess that was my foundation for Eccentricity.

Anyway…

Nothing definite. Discuss, if you wish.