I'm getting slightly more "I can't be racist, some of my best friends are [slur]s"

A subtle distinction, to be sure

Autistics: famously never artists

CSP and Krita are the only things I use now

And Krita is just for like five brushes with a particular texture I like and *one* perspective tool

Listen here, buddy

BEEFLEJUICE

Was this episode about the dangers of summoning entities from the Pit Eternal or what the fuck is going on here

Damn, New York really DOES have everything

This is the best review of a cape comic... or maybe any comic... I've read in 25 years. I'm fuckin dying.

Make the comic YOU want to make. There's never going to be enough success in this business to do anything else. And making a creative work that doesn't put anyone off but nobody loves is just a recipe to be forgotten.

Best of luck, friend. Please don't let the bastards grind ya down.

... told them "I'm sorry it didn't work for you!" and proceeded to ignore it, because it DID fit the writing.

I could have changed it. I could still go back and change it, fifteen years hence.

But no, in this instance, the advice was wrong. And this was a lot less critical than changing my MC.

The people who complained about Alexei? Fuck 'em. You might lose 'em but trying to accommodate them is about to lose you your comic. Does that help anyone? Does that help YOU?

I once finished a page that I was incredibly proud of, and someone said: "Hey, this art doesn't fit the writing."

So I...

Hey, we haven't interacted and we don't know each other, so take this both with a grain of salt and in the spirit of honest concern:

Fuck 'em. Just make the comic YOU want.

Adapting to critique has its place, but to the extreme where you don't even recognize your own characters? Fuck 'em. Go back.