
Chapter 11, Page 18
Ey up.
So uh. As if I wasn’t failing to maintain a consistent upload schedule already, I’ve had some medical emergencies lately and recently found out that I’m…well, quite badly ill (physically this time, it turns out; not just my usual depression and ADHD malfunctions) and likely to be in hospital very soon. This may make my update schedule even more messy and non-existent, or it may make pages be more forthcoming as I find ways to distract myself in between hospital appointments and the like.
I’ve got a new page today, though. Thanks to those of you who are still reading (IDK how many of you there are, but I appreciate you), and Logi for his webmastery activities, hosting and saving me from my own incompetence on several occasions.
I’ll keep hanging in here, and posting and updating as often as I can.
God, it’s been so long since I actually posted something, and people probably are wondering if I’ve been actually dead, or ditched the comic full stop…The answer is no; this is a project I started, and I do plan to finish it. However, years ago a friend said to me that you really shouldn’t force art, and I always knew that was true, but lately I’ve really needed to take a *big* if unnanounced step back just to save myself from resenting the project, wringing a few more pages out of myself out of obligation, and then throwing in the towel out of frustration. I figured it was a safer bet to just…see Five Comic as a project I could return to as and when I felt like it, rather than one I was starting to feel as some kind of UUUUUGH obligation.I’ve been pretty busy with (and slightly behind on) commissions over at Queencordite: Art by C. Bowen lately which I’m catching up on, in addition to coming off some medication I’d been on for a very long time (yay wooo SNRI withdrawal symptoms are brutal!) and in my downtime, wanting to work on other creative projects (which I do intend on also hosting on www.five-comic.co.uk when I’ve finished re-tooling it), so Five Comic has very much been on the back burner. When will it resume? I’m not sure, I’m actually feeling like I might wanna draw another page this weekend, but I can’t promise any kind of regular weekly update schedule, so for the forseeable, Five is gonna carry on being a “worked on as and when I have the inspiration and brain cells” project. It hasn’t been shelved, by a long shot, but regular updates aren’t likely to be forhcoming, at least not for a little while.Thank you all for your patience though, those of you who have been reading since I started in 2011, those who stumbled upon it recently, and those who aren’t quite sure how you got here. It means a lot, and I hope to at least have the continuation of plot for you in some form or another without the wait being too gargantuan.
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I know it’s a bit of a long break but honestly I’ve just kind of hit that point again where I need to do a whole big pile of ‘getting my shit together’, mostly relating to my health, commissions/projects I’ve gotta do for other people, and my own rather flimsy pandemic-related sanity, but also including re-storyboarding some bits for this chapter anyway.
The comic itself will be back and hopefully a bit more coherent and less rushed on 7th June, and I’m gonna do a couple of comic-related colouring pages for patrons too.