27 Apr 2010

I knew from the very beginning that creating a webcomic imposes some restrictions. One is the immutability of content. Once it's published, it shall not be changed. Thus spoke the Lord.

Now, add in the fact that you need to release periodically. Even more, you must. That's actually the key point, if I ever learn to draw it will be thanks to being forced to do it :):

Thing is, I didn't have enough time to review and check the last page I published. Then the next day, it felt completely out of tone with the idea of the comic. So I committed a sin and changed it and it's very interesting to see that some people noticed, but of course most didn't until I pointed them to the change (Facebook power).

The actual changes I made are not so evident so the new version seemed better than the previous one although it was unclear why. Let me illustrate you with a Before and After comparison:

7 differences (click to zoom)

The most important bit is the text, previously it was too verbose, I must learn to leave some things for the reader to infer.

On a side note, Google Reader doesn't care about updated items --other feed readers will tell you there was an update, but someone at Google decided they didn't care, although updates are displayed correctly they are not marked as new content so it's easy to miss them.

BTW: I should change the stroke size for the characters at the bottom of the page, they look so horrible. Should I? Shouldn't? Where do I stop? HELP ME!


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