Hey guys
I'm sure that many of you have come to this conclusion by now, but I'm afraid I will no longer be continuing this comic.
I've put off making this announcement for so long because it's a hard decision to make, and I feel awful about letting everyone down. Every day I delayed posting it made it harder to announce, so I'm just going to suck it up and do it now before I lose my nerve.
I know many of you enjoyed the story, and I hate that I'm leaving it incomplete and couldn’t reach a half decent cutoff point. Unfortunately, this isn't a comic that I ever could finish; the scope was too big and there was too much to cover. I realized this a while ago and thought I could simply end it at a different point in the story and leave the rest to imagination, but even that wasn’t feasible for me. There were a lot of story changes and inconsistencies along the way that needed to be worked around, and that made me worry over how pages would be received. On top of that it was too much of a time commitment because I had written way too many perspectives that needed to be shown for a comic drawn by one person. At some point, it felt like I had stagnated as an artist and would draw this for the rest of my life while everyone around me learned to go beyond their boundaries and could be creative and draw what they wanted, and that was frustrating to say the least. It is for these reasons that I’ve chosen to step away from it.
All this said, making this comic for the last couple of years has been a lot of fun. There have been ups and downs, but I genuinely loved drawing it, and I can’t emphasize enough how thankful I am that so many of you have stayed with me all the while. It's been an amazing experience and I've met a ton of great people along the way. This series has helped me become a better artist, writer, and overall a better internet user. This comic has been my constant for so many years, and it’s hard to let it go, but I know it’s for the best and I’m glad I was able to share what I could with you guys.
I will still continue to draw ponies. I don’t believe this is something I will ever just stop since it’s been such a big part of my life and I cherish each and every one of my characters. I do plan on doing more comics in the future, but they’ll be more casual projects.
In closing, I don’t see myself updating this blog much further and if you’d like to see my art, I still post to my art blog @cosmalumi and my twitter of the same name. Thank you for your time everyone, and thank you again for reading my story and getting to the end of this post. I appreciate all of you!