My Plan: Step 1 – Make A Plan
Feb21
I got nothing. Neither a reason nor an excuse. I’m gradually coming back around to comics, and finding it simultaneously interesting, fulfilling, and deeply depressing. I don’t know how to say it any better than that, but there it is.
I’m right on the edge. I don’t know what comes next!
We’ll be here no matter what you decide! On your terms not ours! 🙂
Just take it step by step. Most of us have been there. It‘ll get better eventually.
We like the artwork!
Yes! I’ll take the small steps!
Well I support your choice in the future
Hope you’re still doing okay. Hang in there!
Guy, take however long you need… Last year was a mess for everyone and this year hasn’t really been much better… This is one of those years that you need to just ease back into the swing of things.. Most of us will still be here, just go when you feel ready…
Dude, it’s all good. Thank you for what you’ve done, and when it brings you joy, do it again. If not, it’s still all good. Take care, enjoy what you can!
Thank you, that’s very kind of you to say. It’s about 50-50 responsibilities vs. motivation. Well, to be fair 70-30. But I feel like, for so long, I was really motivated on this and felt confident and looked on this as something I really loved. And in the last year, it became a lot less so. And when it’s a chore for me, it’s not going to be any good for you either. I want to finish this story but I want to do it right. And frankly keeping a business running in bizarre times, combined with the loss of someone exceptionally close to me last year, combined with a number of friends whose support I really had come to rely on suddenly turning hostile on me – it can really suck the joy out of a thing like this. And I want to give you the best I can, and if I can’t I feel like just finishing won’t be worth it enough to make the effort worthwhile.
Dude Hope things get better miss your work.
Life can be hard and sometimes it can be difficult to pull ones self up and continue on.
I just hope that things will Turn up better soon.
Thank you, I really do appreciate it. I don’t know what it is. Midlife crisis? Writer’s Block? Working 12-hour-days to keep my life together? Well okay that last one is probably most of it. But there are other things at play that I’m always holding back on because it’s no good being public about it. That’s for emos and wankers fishing for sympathy, and the world has a rough grievances that, if we could harness them like gasoline, we’d all be living in floating cities on Jupiter by now. Sooner or later I’ll get my act together. For now keeping things as they are takes most of what I’ve got, so I have to do what’s in front of me.
Take a page from Otto von Bismarck; “Wait until circumstances present themselves to formulate an advantageous plan.” 😀
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jCFt0CQ8aEk&t=225s
Hey, Mr. Average. You do what you NEED. We, your loyal fans, will be waiting. Take as much time as you need to recharge, rest, and recuperate. YOU are worth the wait.
Hey MA does this story have a wiki? If not then it should.
Take all the time you need Mr. Average, we still love you!
I am surviving. Hope you are also.
To whatever extent I’m able!
Just checking in to see how you are holding up. Yes, I miss your work. No, I’m not in a hurry to see more. Like your other fans, vocal or not, I want to see you well, emotionally and physically. Continue to take care and we await your return.
Thank you! As you can probably tell, I’m almost fully absorbed in my work life at the moment. Not only am I working a hell of a lot, I’m dividing my time between two different countries now, and travel in the age of epidemic is very complicated and time consuming. However, it’s also very rewarding, and I have some hope that things will become slightly more normal in early 2022. Coming back to 6-Commando remains something I really want to do, and I’m also working on another project (a collaboration with a writer I know in the Caribbean) and so I’m trying to keep my hand in. I had an unbearably shitty 2020, and a pretty heavily overworked 2021 so far, but there’s always hope for the future.
I appreciate the work you have already published. If you are ever ready to continue, I’ll be there reading. I’m willing to wait a hell of a long time for a good story & you have one of the best. If it turns out that you eventually decide that you can’t continue, that’s alright. Life happens to us all & it doesn’t detract from the amazing job you’ve done so far. However, if you do decide that you must move on without continuing 6 Commando, I would ask only that you tell us, so we can wish you well in all your future endeavors. Until that day or the resumption of publishing, I wish you the best & will keep checking in. Oh, & Mr. Average? Your pen name is exceedingly inaccurate. Your writing & art has been superb. Be well.
Hope things are getting better in your life. Decided to finally get off my duff and write something myself…