On account of my reputation in the relevant circles being trashed (by my own doing - if anybody is going to ruin my life, it's me), I'm dropping a good chunk of the characters from the CuproVerse.
As each character is based on a real person, using them in my comic that deliberately makes fun of everybody who ends up in a panel now is in bad taste.
I'm not dropping all of them - characters representing people not under that community umbrella won't get the boot because my work on the comic won't be seen as attacks on them and thus they'll be able to take a few jokes.
But yeah, given that I'm going to be a bit starved of drama to satirize as a result of my exclusion from those circles, the focus of the CuproVerse might change a bit.
I'm also bringing in some new characters. I got the okay from them. I'm thinking I might actually ask each person individually now if they're willing to be a subject of the comic's relentless satire, as the reduction in cast size has made that feasible.
