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Bodysuit 23 #878
🕑 Added 2025-07-03 00:21:29 +0000 UTC Sorry for the delay but here's a brand new page! Owen's back in the comic for the first time since December 2023! His last appearance that wasn't a one panel bit was in chapter 38 which finished November 2022! Holy damn that's a long time! Also special guest star Fred Luo! Give a round of applause! To summarize what I was GONNA write in the blog post last week, basically I hit burnout due to a combination of factors. Hell week took a huge toll, it was still busy at the start of last week, Cooper is gone on his annual summer vacation so I haven't been able to get feedback on anything, and Kat failed to make it to the shortlist in the webtoons 2025 contest which was a punch in the gut. Overall a very mentally exhausting couple of weeks where I fell suuuuper far behind on comic work. After deciding to push back the comic last week I sat down and did some editing work to chapter 1 of Galactic Dragoon Reina along with writing up a bunch of world building lore stuff. Not entirely done with editing chapter 1 but about halfway done. There's been some details and character reworking that needs to be updated. Still not entirely sure what I'm gonna do with Reina. It's been something I've thought about trying to get published as a novel whenever I get around to writing all of it, but also kicked around the idea of doing a visual novel for it that gets updated as time goes on. But last week I wondered if that's what I want to do with the story. Or, more specifically, I'm unsure if I want to go down the route of going all super capitalistic with the story where I worry about trying to find a literary agent and changing shit so as to give it more mass appeal, or set up some other patreon where I draw lewds of characters while updating the game to have a consistent income coming in for it. Like... fucking everything is hustle culture these days and I'm getting tired of it. I already worry about incomes for Bodysuit 23 and Kat, so why load up even more pressure and headaches with ANOTHER project in an effort to try and make a profit on a creative endeavor? The thought honestly makes my stomach churn. Shit's stressful, yo! Another issue I've had with it was lack of feedback and responses over on the discord servers. I'm not blaming others for getting around to it but my inability to get anything done without constantly worrying if it's any good or not. So this got me thinking of maybe putting out a small zine containing just the first chapter, which acts as a standalone 10k word short story, plus some of the lore stuff I've been writing and some concept artwork/chapter artwork/etc. Something small so as to realistically get it done and give myself a "win" of sorts. A pat on the back for finishing a project. Sure, it's not the complete story I have in mind, but it'll give a nice glimpse of this story I've been developing slowly since 2017 and finally put it out into the world. And also not worry about it making money or anything, either. I figure I'd make it into a small booklet and then toss it up on Amazon's print on demand service and make it close to cheap as possible. I dunno. Kicking around the idea in my head still. Biggest hurdle is figuring out how the dragon spaceship/make would look like as I almost never draw that sort of thing, and that's been keeping me back in regards to really going for it. Anyway that's all for this week. I'll catch y'all next time! Later!
