Hi. Hey. Hello! Long time no see — here with another update on the status of our comic, and how we’ll be approaching things from this point onwards.
When we uploaded the cover for issue two a few months ago, we had every intention of continuing on with the story in a timely manner. We had several pages finished and ready to upload, and the original plan was to start uploading them about a week or two after the cover release. And welllll... I’m sure it’s abundantly clear that isn’t what ended up happening. /whoops.
When we first started Rift, it was always meant to be a passion project. Something that started at 2am, throwing ideas at a wall and hoping they’d stick. Something for fun’s sake, for us, and it still is! But our ideas have changed and matured over the last two years. The comic we started to create back in late 2017 is, to say the least, a lot different from the comic we wish to make now.
Simply, the foundation of Rift isn’t as solid as we’d like it to be. The story needs some work, there’s designs for specific characters we’d like to revisit (including Blaze, who is pivotal to the chapter we were initially going to release soon), plot points + arcs we need to properly thread and tidy up. There’s just a handful of things, honestly.
It may sound a little silly to be putting so much emphasis on a project that’s meant to be ‘for the hell of it’, but that’s kinda why we’d like to reel it back and put more work into it. This comic means a lot to us, and it’s fun for us to make it the best it can be. We want it to reflect our creative ideas! The best of them, and we currently feel that it’s not doing that successfully.
Soo... unfortunately, this means Rift is taking another break. We plan to take down the cover for issue two (there’ll be a new one eventually), and get back to the drawing board! We’ve considered the potential awkwardness that’ll be at play here with some of our changes, i.e changing the look of main characters ‘randomly’. But the truth is, we’d much rather do this now than say, mid-comic when everything has been running for... who knows how long.
The comic is still young, so it’s best to make these changes while we still can. We’ll just put disclaimers in future pages to explain why 'x character’ suddenly looks like this, or why the art looks different (because there’s a lot we wanna change style wise too).
With all of this having been said, thank you, as always, for the patience. There’s a lot of you that avidly read Rift + encourage us to keep going, and it means a lot! It’s really sweet, and we’re sorry that you’re going to have to wait a bit longer to see our story continue. But it’ll be worth it! Promise. It’s going to be the greatest version of itself that it can be (hopefully, we’re gonna do our best).
Thank you for reading this big long ramble, and we hope to see you back here soon! If you’re interested in our work that’s separate from Rift, you can find us on twitter over at spacecolonie and murasoda. + as always, if you have any questions, feel free to drop them in our askbox here and we’ll answer asap.
Thanks, and have a good one. ♥
