Well today is the day, today come hell or high water I stomp out my last words on my book and pray like hell it passes muster. Day before halloween, lets hope the gods are with me. As I finish this two year long tribulation, hopefully gearing up to repeat it soon, I wonder though what the future holds for me. I want to get serious about Life With Arkloyd, true, but I've also been reading more and studying more about the craft of comics, and comparing what is said against what I see in anthro and furry comics. I can't say I'm encouraged.

Just like the mainstream markets anthro seems to have worked itself into well-worn safe ruts, and on top of that because we're such an author and artist driven community there's a lot of creator based arrogance abroad that our creations are somehow sacred. Let me give a reality check here: in a subculture where the greater majority of creations are Sonic the Hedgehog derivatives, nothing is sacred. The fact that I am surrendering much of my intellectual property, almost twenty years of concepts, does not mean I've sold out so much as it means I recognize that to do something valuable with my talents I've got to be willing to play ball.

I've been reading The Authority alot lately, both where that series did it right and where its gone wrong, and I can safely say that neo-silver age is the future in more than one media. I think my future works might reflect this as well. I am a byronic creator, and I like byronic heroes, but moral neutrality only works in a world of hope. The tendency towards 'grimdark' and 'squick', to say nothing of useless 'yiff', short changes what creative power we have. Man's reach does not exceed his grasp, his grasp exceeds his reach, and that reach of late strikes me as low indeed.