The Dualist : Convergence (part 1) up; such high hopes.

posted 2009.01.24 at 19:54

The first third of Convergence is up. The second third will follow as soon as possible.

The first mass upload of the year contains the oldest pages - not quite the first pages, but the oldest to survive without a redraw and/or a reshuffle.

These would have been up nearly a month ago, but I've been grappling with a seemingly hopeless addiction to Disgaea DS (great game!), commissions, and a host of personal issues. I could have kept my head buried in the freelance sand - gladly, as unlike this it pays - but then it would be next week, next month, next year and this scene would still need redoing.

Rereading the original metadata... I seemed happier, and was certainly more sociable in 2003. Five years ago this was a fresh project, I was still excited and high as a kite huffing the new car smell. I thought my stamina was limitless, my imagination bottomless, and I figured people would read it because it was something different and it was on the internet.

Wrong on all counts, I persist.

To wit - my stamina's fine, at the expense of my imagination... which is really more of a petri dish than an ocean, or even a swimming pool. Oh, and all the forces that get your work noticed in meatspace apply to the interwebs as well - you want eyeballs, you gotta go and get 'em yourself.

It's that last skill that remains the least developed - in part because the rest of the fu you need to grow to create a comic has nothing to do with it.

Marketing.

Let's target that for 2010, shall we?