Public Service Announcement
Hey guys, Joe here.
As you can see, there's not a whole lot going on in 362-Land lately, and rather than engage in another one of my famous apologies, I'm just gonna give it to you straight about how things are and how they're gonna go from here on.
As you can no doubt see, there just haven't been a lot of comics going up at the rate they used to. While I've said it before and will say again that 362 has some of the most patient, understanding, and supportive fans out there, I know from experience how frustrating and droll it gets when one of your favorite webcomics doesn't update or hold itself to the schedule it used to. It's not fun for you guys and it's not fun for me. Half the fun of reading a webcomic is the ritual of checking the author's site for updates, even if it's not comic strip. Granted, I don't expect you guys to want to read every little script or blurb I toss out there, so I'm always going to try to give you guys something with substance.
Why hasn't there been anything? Why does it take me so long to get comics done? I could complain about college work, my little newspaper job, or whatever health ailment is pestering me on any given day, but the best and most honest answer is that I'm just not motivated anymore. I'm not motivated in my schoolwork, in my writings, or even the comic. That's just not fair. It's not fair to me that I'm not able to do something I love and enjoy and it's not fair to you guys that you got this far and perhaps even started forming some attachments to the characters only to see the webcomic wither and die.
Before you start to freak out, 362 has not withered and died.
The most honest thing to say here is that I need to do a whole lot of soul-searching and to re-evaluate the things in life that I want to do or make me happy. I need to rethink how I do the comic, what I want the comic to be, and how to make it that way. Hell, I've started to forget even why or where the storyline is going or even whether or not it's cool or any fun for me anymore. I'm not the type of person to retcon or to start over or to do any of that crap, so I may just wind up slogging through it, giving it what I can, and then hopefully just getting things back on track. I've got probably six weeks of school left, and that'll be one enormous burden off my shoulders. Maybe it'll help, maybe it won't. I want to think it will, but who really knows.
The last thing I want to do is to prove all the people who've been looking at the site saying "Well, look at how the updates are trailing off. 362's done. Write it off. Fuck it," right. I don't want to wind up having all the work that Justin, who pays for the site and does all the work for it, be for nothing. I don't want all the people who pimped and still pimp my work to feel like they wasted their time. I don't want to feel like I wasted my time and energy into trying to make something work that was doomed from the start.
362's not dead. It's just sleeping a while and dreaming. Maybe when the stars are right, I can be back to two updates a week. Maybe even three again. We just don't know.
That being said, twice a week -- you'll get something. Even if it's concept art. Maybe a commentary. An article or two. Even if it's a doodle from another project I'm working on or whatever's caught my eye -- this isn't just 362, it's 362 Studios's website. My creative drop. My little sanctuary corner of the internet. In short, I'll give you something to keep you guys busy between one strip and the next, something you'll appreciate, enjoy, and something that'll hopefully make you smile or laugh.
Then I might be able to do the same thing again.
Joe out.
i would follow you my destiny
