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Slightly Faster AMA:
🕑 Added 2020-05-11 09:13:28 +0000 UTCDon't worry, I'll have more sketches and other artwork over the course of the week, but there have been a couple questions apart from the character AMA that I'd like to answer.
First and foremost is commissions. I have done a few, and have a couple more in the works, but generally speaking, I simply don't have enough free time right now. It wouldn't be fair to accept even a partial payment for something I probably wouldn't be able to deliver in anything approaching a reasonable amount of time.
I'm already having trouble getting some shop stuff done on a reasonable schedule.
The option is not wholly off the table, and I would, in fact, like to do some art I can take some time on to do well, but at the moment, my "to do" list is already miles long.
Second is upcoming storylines: You ladies and gents regularly request subjects that I already have in mind for eventual storylines- when Doc met Roger, Roger's home life, Doc's first day of play, where Doc got his huge underground lair, etc.
Remember, TWB is 5 days a week, unlike a lot of webcomics, and I have no plans to end it anytime soon. That's a ton of time to fill, but thankfully I still have a ton of stories to tell, and I want to make them all as entertaining as possible.
It's also worth noting that while I generally have some outline and/or gags written for many of those storylines, not all of them are what you might call fully fleshed out. :)
I want to fill in a few more details before I start spilling any metaphorical beans. :D
Anyway, more sketches tomorrow, and as always, thanks for reading!
Doc.
Comments
Owelin
"Huh... pool party... wait a minute, didn't Doc make a joke about this like two years ago?"
Doc Nickel
I only had the one specifically about the pool party, but I got at least half a dozen others about commissions in general. (Only a couple of which, including the pool one, were for anything NSFW. Several people just want to see their character in TWB style, etc.) On the 'pool party' image, even disregarding the 'topless' part, that's a pretty complex image overall- and I'd rather do it right than just scribble a few lines. And the sad fact is that, at least at the moment, I have very little spare time for complex art right now.
Owelin
Last AMA, somebody asked about topless pool party, and you said that would be a commission. This AMA, you mention you're too busy to do commissions. My question is: HOW MANY requests for a topless poor party commission did you get after the last AMA, that you had to make a general announcement in this one?
Nuke Road Warrior
What Sebastian said. P.S. loved the "Black Watch" inclusion in today's strip.
Peter Jensen
Yeah, I don't expect you to run out of story any time soon. There's a lot of world building giving stuff to explore, and there's potentially years of material in very little in-universe time. Though maybe not all of them needs a full Freefall style glacial pacing, where chapter 1 covered at most a few weeks in the course of nearly two decades ...
Sebastian
The questilons are just an sign of your great worldbuilding. We (the readers) are interested in your characters and everything thats surrounding them.
