Blog for the Myth City Webcomic

So, I believe I’ve mentioned before that Myth City might likely end up being a lot shorter than I was originally intending (fun fact: I’d actually originally planned for MC to last 10 volumes. Past Rhys, what were you thinking -___-)

Well, last night at work, I had an epiphany. I’d always planned for Myth City to basically just be a starter of sorts for me, in putting myself and my work out there before I got started on a bigger, and hopefully better story. Heck, I started the webcomic with the promise to myself that I was doing so partly for art practice. And I had a LOT more free time back then…enough to do two pages a week some weeks. But now, several years later, I have a solid job. Only part-time for right now, but I’m hoping to change jobs soon, and hopefully get a full-time job…hey, I’ve got bills to pay, after all (seriously though, being an adult hecking SUCKS TAT)

Fact of the matter is, Myth City just isn’t the passion project it once was for me. Honestly? Maybe, really looking back at it, it never really was. I LOVE myths and legends, heck, Gravity Falls is still my favorite cartoon, after all, but I basically only decided to do a story about reincarnated gods because I got into the Percy Jackson series which in turn I only got into because of the mediocre live-action film. I have long since fallen off the bandwagon, and am just not into Greek gods or whatever as I once was (though ironically, I started reading ‘Tristan Strong Punches A Hole in the Sky’…which is from ‘Rick Riordan presents’). Anyway, as time has passed, I’ve developed more and more of a heart for my future story, Weird World, as I come up with ideas for the characters and stories, and work on drafts for that story. And like…I’m just ONE person, doing these stories all on my own. I don’t want to spend years working on a series I’m not even really into anymore, then finally finish it up when I’m like sixty and my carpal tunnel is so bad I can’t even use art programs anymore.

Which is why I’ve decided to end Myth City after it’s next chapter.

Well, the main comic anyway…I’m thinking of leaving the ‘full/official’ series itself at eight chapters, hopefully giving all of the main characters enough of a chance to shine, and then just do like, little mini-comics with the characters in-between Weird World, and other stuff.

Because yeah, at this point I’m really just trying to end the story I told…but I also still love Shay, Helena, Maverick and the others too much to drop them completely. Hopefully I can actually manage to fit in some references to the original mythologies, and more stuff about the city and its laws in said mini-comics…

As for Weird World, like I mentioned, I’ve just…been more and more inspired to get into the story, or at least draw the main cast, and get a chance to introduce you guys to them…enough to scrap my ORIGINAL planned short story, ‘In-Between’. As time has passed and the story has gotten time to develop, it’s just become more and more in line with my interests, new and old: shapeshifting, cryptids, science fantasy, adventure, found family. Not to mention pretty much the entire main cast are retooled versions of my former and current muses from my roleplay blog and AUs :P Not sure when exactly I’ll start doing profile sheets for the characters, so you guys can get a feel for them, but I DO plan to give you guys a sneak peek of at least two later this year. Until then, I’m going to keep working on the story drafts…hopefully with this one I’ll actually be able to get a good chunk of it done before starting the actual comic, so, unlike with Myth City, I don’t just basically go into it half-cocked.

Oh yeah, also, thanks to people like @majormeilani and @gracebeth3604 / @askamnesiamoonjumper my creative juices for my own AHIT AU have kind of been reinvigorated…*looks at my fanfic* well, even more than they already were, anyway XD I still want to try working on other stuff…like, as mentioned, previews of the Weird World characters, but I HAVE come up with a few new ideas for drawings for my AU…one of which I plan to work on some time after coming back from my Easter break in a couple weeks; basically as an ‘intro’ of sorts for the uninitiated?