Comments on: Annotated 49-35

By: T

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 02:28:29 +0000

That *could* be a factor for Flo, but only Flo could answer that one. I’m as cis as they come, though, and I definitely wrestled with the “great expectations” a lot when I was starting out.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:14:19 +0000

I can certainly see some things in the story which I’d like to be “fixed”, but half of those don’t seem to be faults to most other people, and some of the things T has pointed out are hard for me to see as needing improvements. This stuff is highly subjective, and I think it’s all really good. Better than most other webcomics I know of. But of course most people commenting here are long-time readers, so this feedback is somewhat biased :)

I guess if someone paid you to do it again (maybe this time for release as a book), with a few month’s time to rearrange the overall arc etc., you’d probably find a bunch of things to improve that aren’t obvious to most readers but would result in a better overall story. But I guess it’s like the old saying: The perfect engineer, given infinite resources and time, will produce exactly nothing. There’s *always* something to improve.
No idea whose sentence that is, but I think it applies not only to engineers but also to artists and a lot of other professions. You can always make your current draft just that little bit better.

I sure hope you can eventually make something this way that does pay the bills.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:31:10 +0000

I’ve heard that some trans artists find that their dissatisfaction with their work pre-transition seems sort of foreshadowy in hindsight, as just not coming out the way it should, like it’s secretly at odds with its own self or something.
I dunno if that pattern applies here, though.

By: Zomg

Zomg — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:04:49 +0000

Yes, this. I can’t count the number of wonderful webcomic series that I have read that never got to the end. Heck, “Templar, Arizona” barely got to the MIDDLE, and I loved that one hard. I honestly don’t know how any independent artists make a living through their art these days. It’s heartbreaking, basically. That said, I think it reflects really well on all of you that you were able to, practically and artistically, make it through to the completion of the series. Flo’s frustration is understandable none the less.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:19:48 +0000

YOu told your story all the way through to the end, and had a lot of people following every minute. Sounds like a success, at least artistically, to me.