Kazerad posted:

Aw, that's not entirely accurate.

I like to try things I haven't done before. Originally it was a sort of research thing, like "someday I'm going to be a real webcomic author and have to know what sort of stuff people like/dislike!", but at this point I think I just kind of enjoy it. Sometimes it leads to these situations where something turns out to be ridiculously hard and takes months and months, and I'm not going to defend it and say "well, this is actually a good business decision", because it's not. Exploring new approaches is just kind of fun, and enough of my audience seems to like the experimentation that it is sustainable.

I do feel bad when this causes massive delays, because I like updating the story, and I like when people enjoy it. However, the freedom to try out new styles and approaches is something I really enjoy, and which does not exist in most other long-running projects. Like, I can tell you for a fact that I'm never again doing something a graphically complex as this update, but I'm still glad that I had the opportunity to explore this path and realize it was a horrible idea. There's a weird sense of exploration and excitement to this kind of thing that I never really expected when I got drunk and started a webcomic. I always thought of webcomic as, like, writing a script and then painstakingly illustrating it every day for the next ten years.