Published: February 7th 2019, 9:42:43 am
Hey everyone. It's... been a while, huh? So, full disclosure, it's still going to be a little bit until new pages resume, at least in any capacity I can promise to maintain consistently. I've been pretty busy with commissions and other ventures these past couple of months, and I'm sorry I let things get so backlogged with owed pages. I still intend to get those pages up, and I still intend to make the next five pages following them free of charge as apology, but if anyone wants to just go ahead and get their money from the still-unposted pages refunded and wash their hands of me, send me a message and I'll try to take care of that for you.
As for how things are going at this exact moment, I've been quietly working on redrawing Poppy 1 with proper inks and very minor dialogue tweaks, and again, full disclosure, I'll probably focus on getting that done before committing to new pages again. I'll post patreon-exclusive previews as they come together, but I'm waiting until the whole thing's done before replacing any old pages on the actual site (Don't worry, I'll keep the originals attached for anyone who still wants to see them). Revisiting my old work has been helping me remember why I enjoyed working on Poppy in the first place, and although I still feel the mostly-written format will ultimately be the best fit for Poppy's future as a longform, stupidly dense story, it is nice to work on comics again.
Depending on how that goes, I'll also consider revisiting Poppy 4 (and that one uncolored page in Poppy 2) in full color, and some of the earlier, messier pages of Poppy 5, but I don't want to touch any of those until the series proper has resumed and is healthily updating.
I've talked about it before in other places, but my plans in regards to the actual future are as follows. Once Poppy resumes, whenever that is, I will work towards maintaining a schedule of at least once a week until Poppy 8 and 9 are finished, wrapping up the "First Part" of Poppy sometime, by my estimate, in 2020/2021. After that, I will take an extended hiatus from the series, and work primarily on one-shots and other much, much shorter stories.
But then again, a lot can happen in that time. I might change my mind once I get to that point and immediately jump into Part 2. I might just release the most summarized version of the plot and throw it out there for anyone who's impatient and just wants to know where it goes. Ultimately, my goal is the same as it's ever been: tell the entire story, no matter how long it takes or what format I have to do it in.
And to that end, thank you for having continued to support me, and for encouraging me even as things have been rough. And if you haven't, well, thanks for showing up anyway.
Morb, I. Everett