Just an aside,

Merry Christmas, and thanks for reading my blog.

I’m going to be off during this next couple of days. PHW is quite interesting right now, so I’ll be looking forward to see how it went later.

Srs Business?

I honestly don’t know if it’s my bad mood or if it’s recurring, but I’m tired of how people take GMod comics so seriously.

I mean, I realized it one day after I posted the Christmas special message – and oh boy, have I been doing it too. I’m always feeling like I should obey a schedule and all this crap about “bad comics” is affecting my own sense of humor.
I’ve been doing a comic series, and two of its episodes were scrapped because I didn’t think it was funny enough for them, and because one reader in particular didn’t feel it was funny enough. Now I realize my mistake.

Is it just me, or are people starting to take this a little too seriously? PHWComics started as a website in which Michael posted his comics, and then some guys joined him and started doing comics too, and that was great.
At a certain point, people got too over their heads. Clover wanted to stop doing comics, but he didn’t because the readers kept asking for more. What’s up with that?! Didn’t he have the right to move on? I finally understand why he’s left.

You know, Popwar has said it a lot of times, but only now do I get it well. There’s this whole lot of threads on Dear Diary about how the “old PHW” was so much better, and what’s wrong with the new comics, and how they wish the good stuff was back and that everyone sucks these days.
This was what started to influence me on the first place, and yet at the same time started to annoy me. It’s an Internet community, Goddamnit – if you want to do something epic, do it, but don’t get over yourself. Some days ago I met Cmdr.Death, the creator of the fabulous The Third Reborn, and I found out he was quite a great person and extremely modest for his skills. He even told me that the comic would have taken a lot less time to do if he had dedicated his entire free time to it, but he didn’t and as such it took longer.
You see, this is a normal person. It’s the best comic ever in terms of aspect and he put a lot of dedication onto it, but he didn’t go obsessed over it. He knew it was just a comic and even so he made something fantastic – and, better yet, he didn’t care about schedules, which was my mistake in the first place. In a five-minute talk he earned my full respect, something that many members have been losing from me.
The quote that best demonstrates my point is Jim_Riley’s, a member that has actually been away for quite a while but still reveals the same mentality:

“Take it like a man Mythos! Don’t delete the thread.“

I’m sorry, what?! Take it like a “man”? Are we talking about the same thing here? I’m talking about a comic I did in five minutes and which I didn’t really care about nor planned to release – maybe Jim_Riley was talking about some high school fight? Wait a moment, I’ll get my baseball bat!
Now, let me just make it clear that I don’t have anything against Jim_Riley personally – but this habit of giving comics too much importance has been spreading and it’s quite problematic to me. When you add the fact that everyone is being criticized for making bad comics, which started off as an interesting discussion but soon evolved into some sort of reunion for dejá vus and heavy criticism, you can see why I’m so annoyed with this.

People, understand this – we’re talking about comics. You want to make PHW as good as it was? Then stop the fucking nonsense and Internet meme crap and be friendly! PHW started as a small group who did comics for fun – giving comics too much importance was what brought it down – remember the ACMs?
I thought we had settled that being elitist and giving too much importance to comics was one of the things that brought PHW down, but apparently we didn’t.

Oh, and, Girl Next Door isn’t finished. I was planning to finish it to be a sort of Christmas gift, not only to Isolatedpurity but also to the community, but I won’t and I seriously don’t care. I don’t think the community even deserves a gift at all, right now.
I’m done with schedules. It’s done when it’s done.