Sorry about missing Wednesday’s update, I got distracted and forgot that the auto-update isn’t working. So here it is.
I haven’t been able to reach my web designer to get it fixed.
Today’s will be posted at 2000, as usual.
I had a blog post last Monday, I don’t know if anyone was able to see it, so here it is as a comment:
Let me address some points that were raised in a comment on Monday:
This is a not a webcomic about places or events as much as it is about people.
Their personalities, their actions, their reactions to events.
It’s a story that I’ve held in my imagination in various forms for as long as I can remember.
I tried writing it, but I’m too impatient to be a good writer. It felt rushed and incomplete.
But 3D art is easier, although much more expensive.
This is the story that I’ve had inside my mind for far too long, and I decided to make it a webcomic
and share it with whoever was interested.
I didn’t do it because I wanted money, or readers… I did it because I wanted to tell the story.
It reflects a lot of things, like my faith in what young people can accomplish if properly nurtured, if taught the truth
about history and the world, if taught not what to think, but how. If given the facts and allowed to reach their own conclusions.
Of what we all could be and do, if left alone to make our own choices.
Yes, I’d like more readers.
Yes, I’d like to make some money at this.
But yes, this comic reflects the views of it’s author and it’s characters.
It is a conservative world, and I won’t change that to make money or to gain popularity. It wouldn’t be the same story,
it wouldn’t be the story I need to tell.
It would be something less.
I won’t apologize for offending anyone. The Osambla story was secondary, anyway. It was more a way of illustrating
the thoughts of the leaders of the Empire, and giving life to some characters who would become important in later
stories, like the Legionnaires and Doc and Pony.
Plus it was funny. I often include humor in the middle of tragedy, real life is like that.
If that drives away some would-be supporters, okay. Maybe it will attract others.
But if I wanted wealth and readers, this webcomic would have a lot more naked flesh and violence.
Because I’ve tried, and I do excellent naked flesh and violence. But that doesn’t tell the story that I need to tell.
To all of you who support this webcomic, who mention it other places, thank you.
Thank you for helping me share. For helping me remember how to share.
Well, I already apologized on a prior page, but I do have some more to say.
Mostly I think of myself as a fairly intelligent guy, but sometimes, like most of us, I can do some pretty boneheaded things.
Telling a comic creator how to tell their story? Yeah, that qualifies. So, sorry again.
Okay, Bob. Enough. You did make a good point.
I’ll tone down the political crap, once is funny…
But if I can get some humor out of it, watch out!
That includes all sides, I’m not picky.
Stay the way you are. We like it. That’s why we are here. You can get skin anywhere, but you can’t always get good stories. Thank-you.
P.S. Where can we donate to help? It may not be much.
Sorry about missing Wednesday’s update, I got distracted and forgot that the auto-update isn’t working. So here it is.
I haven’t been able to reach my web designer to get it fixed.
Today’s will be posted at 2000, as usual.
I had a blog post last Monday, I don’t know if anyone was able to see it, so here it is as a comment:
Let me address some points that were raised in a comment on Monday:
This is a not a webcomic about places or events as much as it is about people.
Their personalities, their actions, their reactions to events.
It’s a story that I’ve held in my imagination in various forms for as long as I can remember.
I tried writing it, but I’m too impatient to be a good writer. It felt rushed and incomplete.
But 3D art is easier, although much more expensive.
This is the story that I’ve had inside my mind for far too long, and I decided to make it a webcomic
and share it with whoever was interested.
I didn’t do it because I wanted money, or readers… I did it because I wanted to tell the story.
It reflects a lot of things, like my faith in what young people can accomplish if properly nurtured, if taught the truth
about history and the world, if taught not what to think, but how. If given the facts and allowed to reach their own conclusions.
Of what we all could be and do, if left alone to make our own choices.
Yes, I’d like more readers.
Yes, I’d like to make some money at this.
But yes, this comic reflects the views of it’s author and it’s characters.
It is a conservative world, and I won’t change that to make money or to gain popularity. It wouldn’t be the same story,
it wouldn’t be the story I need to tell.
It would be something less.
I won’t apologize for offending anyone. The Osambla story was secondary, anyway. It was more a way of illustrating
the thoughts of the leaders of the Empire, and giving life to some characters who would become important in later
stories, like the Legionnaires and Doc and Pony.
Plus it was funny. I often include humor in the middle of tragedy, real life is like that.
If that drives away some would-be supporters, okay. Maybe it will attract others.
But if I wanted wealth and readers, this webcomic would have a lot more naked flesh and violence.
Because I’ve tried, and I do excellent naked flesh and violence. But that doesn’t tell the story that I need to tell.
To all of you who support this webcomic, who mention it other places, thank you.
Thank you for helping me share. For helping me remember how to share.
The real-life Jonathan Walker
Well, I already apologized on a prior page, but I do have some more to say.
Mostly I think of myself as a fairly intelligent guy, but sometimes, like most of us, I can do some pretty boneheaded things.
Telling a comic creator how to tell their story? Yeah, that qualifies. So, sorry again.
Okay, Bob. Enough. You did make a good point.
I’ll tone down the political crap, once is funny…
But if I can get some humor out of it, watch out!
That includes all sides, I’m not picky.
I had no problems with what you did there, and it was funny.
Stay the way you are. We like it. That’s why we are here. You can get skin anywhere, but you can’t always get good stories. Thank-you.
P.S. Where can we donate to help? It may not be much.
There was supposed to be a PayPal button here, but…
Like I said, I can’t get in touch with my webdesigner.
I’m think of something…
I may be mistaken, but if you set up a ‘Gentle Wolf’ paypal account, I think folks can contribute by going through the paypal website.