Posted

Dec 31st 2007

Right. Now that that's finally over with, I can get on with the announcement I planned to make. I know that video I was in a few days ago did it absolutely no justice, so I shall repeat it all here as first intended.

Now then. I don't think I need to explain that times are tough. I've made all the empty promises, the hopes for a more constant influx of comics for each of my serieses, but once and for all, I seriously think it's time to do what I should have done a long time ago and start pulling some plugs. It's pretty bad when you can only do, like...TEN comics a year, and that's putting it ever so nicely. So here's what I shall be doing.

Author Space. All Plots Aside. 4-KOMA. The Fallout Shelter. Dead. These four serieses were never meant to really go anywhere, more like filler to have something on the site while the main comics were being worked on, but when you can't even do THOSE anymore, you know it's gotten pretty bad.

Sweet Revenge. Cancelled. I apologize, but I can't say I'm as proud and hopeful of the overall story as I once was. Thinking over it, it just isn't going anywhere at all. You'll soon see what I mean as, like Kirbopher did with his final season of TTA, I intend to construct a "What Would Have Been" as my final act for SR, detailing what would have happened and accompanied with respective art for some of the more important scenarios.

Obviously, I'll still work on Samurai Pizza Cats: COLD. And The Rouge's Gallery, I fully intend on finishing this goddamn story arc AND TRG 300. And once those are over, I intend to return it back to what it once was intended to be: my own little random comic hub. Basically, I'm taking what I made into APA and returning it to it's original home.

I know there are a lot of people who might be saddened or upset by this turn of events, both old Rogueamaniacs and the new ones that have been popping up lately. I appreciate that even after five years of irregular updates, you all still support me and my work to no end. However, this decision has been one I have wrestled with for months on end and it's high time to make a decision. Any and all ideas I had back during the comics' prosperous times, I dislike now to want to do them, and there's nothing worse for an artist than forcing yourself to put your ideas down on paper...well, there may be worse, but that's just one scenario appropriate to this situation.

And it's not only that. Working on such things as COLD, the commissions, and various other things have made me realize that I like using what artistic talent I have for others more than I do for myself (which isn't to say that I WON'T be drawing for myself anymore. PUH). Getting rid of the burden of five comics that need updates and never will see them will give me the time and focus I need to do such things. And if I have a comic idea, I can just make it, slap it here in TRG, and be done with it.

So. There it is. I still need to work on redoing the site somehow to match these changes, which will be tough since I know very, VERY little site coding, but that is the state of TRG Productions and what the future holds as far as what I bring to the table. Naturally, the five dead comics will still be available for your reminiscing pleasure, both now and whenever this site gets overhauled. Nevertheless, I thank you all for being there during my initial run and will still be here for whatever art I cough up. It was a blast and I will miss doing these strips, but you know the old saying about all good things.