Bob Appavu
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POLL #1: What do you want to see first?
🕑 Added 2019-10-14 18:43:42 +0000 UTCI have two polls coming today! One is for DOTU, and one is for the Lychgate series. I'll also be posting a few Inktobers!
So, the poll - tell me what you want to see *first*. Feel free to comment and elaborate if you need to.
A few notes:
1. "Faster DOTU pages" means I would produce patron-only pages at a faster rate than the current milestone goals, for a set number of months. After that, we'd need to hit the milestone goals to make it permanent. Faster patrons-only pages will also lead to the comic being able to stay public for longer.
2. "Faster Merritt's Story chapters" means 2x/monthly updates instead of 1x/monthly. Since updates have been paused since May, I of course know that you guys want more than 0x/monthly. :P
3. A lot of people have mentioned wanting audio of Merritt's Story because they don't have time to read. I really want it too! But audiobook narration is super expensive, so this type of project would require a Kickstarter. The full book would be delivered to people who pledge a qualifying amount on KS, and the audio would also post on a per-chapter basis to one of the Patreon tiers. It would have to go to a higher tier than $2, though.
Other options: I'm considering having SFW versions of individual chapters post publicly (perhaps as a KS stretch goal), and original NSFW versions stay patrons only. I could also have a stretch goal for ~5 illustrations per chapter, so the chapters can post as audio+illustration (video format) to KS backers and a Patreon tier (again, probably higher than $2).
4. The card deck Kickstarter might be cheaper, but the DOTU print and Merritt's Story audio Kickstarters will have to be $5000+, which will require some real effort to achieve, and I'll absolutely need help from my readers to get the word out about the Kickstarter. Book printing and audiobook narration are very expensive. However, these two are more likely to grow readership than the card deck, and there's the option to build faster DOTU pages/Merritt's Story chapters into the stretch goals.
So, let me know what you think! This poll is patrons only and ends in 1 week. The second poll will be public.
