For a while, I've been thinking about this possibility. I've been meaning to make my comic, "Di Luar Sana" ("Out There") publicly available, instead of being trapped within Patreon, where only three people in the world could access it -- those three people being my only patrons, by the way. (And also some few close friends of mine whom I regularly chat with.)

I never realized how big this comic has become. When I first worked on it, I predicted that it'll be around 20 pages only. Well, before I realized it, to date, at the time of writing this journal entry, I've finished like 48 pages now! O_o Now I'm hoping that it won't go over 60. (This comic is meant to be a short comic... >_>;; )

This is my biggest comic project to date, a massive passion project of mine in the making since 2017, though the original idea for this comic already existed since 2005 or something. And the longer I worked on it, the more I've been itching on wanting to make this comic being publicly available. This comic is the reason why I had not been active with drawing new pics as of late. The reason why I had not make this comic publicly available is because I've been thinking about making money out of this comic someday, maybe selling it as a digital comic or something. But then again, I'll only be limiting my audience even further.

Also, the pages uploaded on Patreon are a little outdated. There's a reason why I called it a "preview" rather than the final completed pages: I kept revisiting old pages, updating them if I discovered any mistakes and/or whatnot.

Plus, by uploading the English version as well, I could enlist help from my readers to help me proofread the English dialogues for me. While I'm very skilled at speaking in English, I don't have the best English ever... though, it's true that most of us Asians can't speak English that well (or even at all). American English is preferred, because I want this comic to have a more international focus, and American English appears to be the de facto English dialect used almost everywhere. (And, considering where I came from, because I'm a bloody rebel.)

So yeah, should I make this comic public? This will be a big undertaking because I'd then have to upload each page one-by-one. As a non-premium member, I can't schedule submissions ahead of time. (I could use PostyBirb for that function, but with DeviantArt currently pushing for the Eclipse layout, I fear that it could cause some issues.) It would be nice if DeviantArt has a batch upload function, or the ability to upload multiple pics in a single submission at once, something that sites like Pixiv and Inkbunny have. I'd really love to make this comic available for everyone, not just enclosed within Patreon.

Additional Fur Affinity note: Strictly speaking, "Di Luar Sana" is not a furry comic. While the later pages did finally introduce aliens which could've put this comic into furry territory, for the first 17 pages, there will be nothing but humans throughout. Considering the alien theme, I felt that, to really hammer the message better, I'll have to use human characters early on. The message would've been muddled if furries were used instead. For that reason, I probably won't be uploading this comic onto Fur Affinity.