Life Keeps Happening at Me, and I Can’t Let The Comic Look Bad, Ever
I never really mention it (because why would I), but I work a full time job in addition to BSF. This week, things have been particularly rough at work. As a result, I haven’t had a lot of time to work on Page 352. I was kind of amazed I was able to get Page 351 done!
So, I could just force the page out on time, but if I did, it wouldn’t look good. The first panel is relatively complex and if I just try to fudge it to get the page out I’m going to regret it forever. So I’m going to defer page 352 till Tuesday. This comic is super important to me, and so is your experience reading it. That is why I really try to keep to my schedule; being able to get a comic page when you expect it is super integral to the ideal experience. But… I value the quality of the comic even more than that. So now instead of a rushed, lousy page 352 tomorrow, you will get The Best Possible Page 352 on Tuesday, April 29th.
I really wish I didn’t need to do this, and I apologize for making you all wait, but if I compromise on quality, what even is the point? (There isn’t one. I checked.)
So I appreciate your patience, and Page 352 and I will see you on Tuesday!
Your comic is definitely worth waiting for! 🙂
Hi again! Ah well, that’s a shame, but hey you managed to get back to schedule ok last time it happened, I’m not gonna go turning my back on your comic just because you miss one occasionally. It’s too good! 😀 I’m still fairly boggled at how few readers you seem to have, but I guess maybe you’ve not advertised it very much (I only saw the one ad that brought me here). My impression from comments is that those few of us who do know about it like it quite a lot.
Again, do consider (if you haven’t already- you may have reasons not to do them) the possibility of making arrangements with other webcomic artists to do occasional filler strips? Not that that’s essential or anything but I get the impression it can help keep readers reasonably content and interested when real life inevitably crops up. Again, I’ll always keep checking back for updates on Tues and Thurs even if you miss dates, and I’m sure most of us do, but if there’s ever a hiatus of more than a couple weeks in a comic (not so unusual), people can drift away sometimes and maybe forget to come back. Having *any* updates to look at helps there, hence guest strips. Plus if you do filler pages or guest strips for *other* comics occasionally, that can bring in new readers, it’s like cross-promotion. Downside is you probably need arrangements with several people in case everybody’s busy at the same time 😀 Although it’s still not a catastrophe if there isn’t one. Also you have to either find the time to do them for others, or have so many readers that people won’t care whether you can reciprocate. Also having non-canon side-story style pages in a long-form strip is probably a bit off-putting for some authors, which may well be why you don’t have them 😀 There are other styles of filler too of course, like fan-art.
Wow I’ve burbled on a hell of a lot again, v.sorry! I’ll try not to raise the filler topic again, as you may well hate the idea, and it’s entirely up to you. An absorbing comic like yours may not need it at all! Take care, and good luck with life and work, and with BSF 🙂 🙂