9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Dana McAllen is a member of the urban exploration association that is currently investigating remnants of the worlds previous civilization. She initially made her debut in the Tunnelrunners side comic. She has been Ian's closest friend since early childhood, and is still his closest confidant.
I wish. I’ve always wanted to do a comic series based on Aileana and Ishara during their privateer days and the war.
Just total femme fatale gunplay and combat craziness…which would all be canon. ‘Leana and Ishy talk around the edges of things a lot, but you have NO idea just how wild they were back then.
There is no way in hell I could ever do it on the collective I’m on…it would be so incredibly NSFW. It would probably be huge though. I just don’t have the time…it would definitely be a ‘lottery dream project’.
I wasn’t kidding when I said it was a ‘lottery dream project’. I’d have to financially be in the position where I could do Requiem and do that as well without having to work on anything else but that.
It would require a steady stream of funds that I am excruciatingly unlikely to ever have access to, without having to work a 9-5 gig to do it.
It’s the kind of thing I think about in my fantasies…living in a place in Bayswater or Oneroa with a five server render cluster networked into my main rig.
Which means, of course, that it’s out of my reach.
Nothing is ever fully out of reach. If you want it, and always keep it in mind, it can and will happen. Maybe calling them “dreams” instead of “fantasies” would help the mindset.
On a similar note: you HAVE said that there IS an end to Requiem. I remember there was more story afterward, though (the archive is to big for me to root around for the details).
Anyway, do those stories have to be five days a week? Would the Aileana and Ishara story work on another collective but with a tamer schedule? Your art and storytelling has been worth the wait so far. I’m just curious to see how far it goes.
Five days a week is set in stone for personal reasons. And the reason it is is because I don’t want this to turn out like all the other comics that just peter out and die. And I actually want to complete this thing before I die of old age.
It just depresses the hell out of me when I see an awesome webcomic just die out like that. I’ve lost too many strips that I have enjoyed over the years to want to do the same thing to you folks. I owe it to you to finish this in as timely a fashion as I can, with as high a quality of work as I can pull off.
Because there is not enough readership to make it worthwhile to do. Requiem will never be a moneymaker, I’m cool with that.;)
But seriously though, with our readership levels I’d rather not do so. Hell, if you just want to talk financials here…we never made a dime on advertising (all of it went back into advertising) And now that our ad people are no longer in business, I haven’t went out of my way looking for a another company to work with, either.
Selling art doesn’t make us anything meaningful either. So far, for the lifespan of Requiem selling artwork and calendars has netted us a grand total of 24 some-odd dollars.I think we made 50-60 USD on the first book, total.
At this point, I’d rather just give you a damn good story 5 days a week, than worry about things like that. I find I enjoy it more.
You probably have more readers than you think. Even if not, we probably make up for that in sheer determination.
Several of the creators I follow have put up a tip-jar link using Ko-Fi this year. So far no one has anything bad to say about it. It looks more like what Patreon was, before they decided to become a business.
I’d donate. It seems inadequate just say “thanks” after 14 years of hard work.
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I wish. I’ve always wanted to do a comic series based on Aileana and Ishara during their privateer days and the war.
Just total femme fatale gunplay and combat craziness…which would all be canon. ‘Leana and Ishy talk around the edges of things a lot, but you have NO idea just how wild they were back then.
There is no way in hell I could ever do it on the collective I’m on…it would be so incredibly NSFW. It would probably be huge though. I just don’t have the time…it would definitely be a ‘lottery dream project’.
I wasn’t kidding when I said it was a ‘lottery dream project’. I’d have to financially be in the position where I could do Requiem and do that as well without having to work on anything else but that.
It would require a steady stream of funds that I am excruciatingly unlikely to ever have access to, without having to work a 9-5 gig to do it.
It’s the kind of thing I think about in my fantasies…living in a place in Bayswater or Oneroa with a five server render cluster networked into my main rig.
Which means, of course, that it’s out of my reach.
On a similar note: you HAVE said that there IS an end to Requiem. I remember there was more story afterward, though (the archive is to big for me to root around for the details).
Anyway, do those stories have to be five days a week? Would the Aileana and Ishara story work on another collective but with a tamer schedule? Your art and storytelling has been worth the wait so far. I’m just curious to see how far it goes.
Five days a week is set in stone for personal reasons. And the reason it is is because I don’t want this to turn out like all the other comics that just peter out and die. And I actually want to complete this thing before I die of old age.
It just depresses the hell out of me when I see an awesome webcomic just die out like that. I’ve lost too many strips that I have enjoyed over the years to want to do the same thing to you folks. I owe it to you to finish this in as timely a fashion as I can, with as high a quality of work as I can pull off.
Because there is not enough readership to make it worthwhile to do. Requiem will never be a moneymaker, I’m cool with that.;)
But seriously though, with our readership levels I’d rather not do so. Hell, if you just want to talk financials here…we never made a dime on advertising (all of it went back into advertising) And now that our ad people are no longer in business, I haven’t went out of my way looking for a another company to work with, either.
Selling art doesn’t make us anything meaningful either. So far, for the lifespan of Requiem selling artwork and calendars has netted us a grand total of 24 some-odd dollars.I think we made 50-60 USD on the first book, total.
At this point, I’d rather just give you a damn good story 5 days a week, than worry about things like that. I find I enjoy it more.
Several of the creators I follow have put up a tip-jar link using Ko-Fi this year. So far no one has anything bad to say about it. It looks more like what Patreon was, before they decided to become a business.
I’d donate. It seems inadequate just say “thanks” after 14 years of hard work.