Maybe it’s a bit odd to work on starting a second comic when I have problems with keeping the first one going, but well…

Traces of Chaos is my baby.

The thing with us creative types is the second a work becomes your baby, you stop seeing it clearly. If you’re in love with something, you’re going to have a tough time seeing its faults.¹ Assessing your own art is hard. Being attached to it makes it even harder. The creative world is littered with examples of works that took a quality nose-dive because the creator lost the ability to check their own work.

But I still adore Silent Suns.

Otherwise I wouldn’t bother writing and drawing it. The story feels solid, the setting entertains me, and it’s a certain kind of pulpy, dark humored science fiction fun you only get once a moon and which I am desperatly missing in the webcomic world. I’m pretty sure that Silent Suns will gain a far bigger following that Traces of Chaos ever will.

For starters, there are no icky furry things in SiS, which, despite being quite well liked in certain depths of the internet, are still putting off the majority of potential readers. Secondly, the female characters in SiS are more… classically attractive than Siendes. As much as I love Siendes², I am fully aware that my attraction to muscle gals is not as widely shared as I’d love it to be. Thirdly ToC has a much slower narrative rythmn than SiS, which tends to be a deathknell here in the fast paced internet world.

SiS even might be objectivly better than ToC ever will be, simply because I’ll be much more capable of doing quality control on SiS than I am on ToC.

And you know what? I am fine with it.

It’s about pets and racehorses.

I love my cats and I go through a lot of bullshit for them, but that doesn’t change the fact that they have no real productive use.  They haven’t caught or even seen a mouse in their whole life. My cats, they’re for cuddling.

Same with Traces of Chaos. It’s a labour of love and I’m allowed to coddle it. If it takes ages to be completed, well, shit happens. There’s no compromise I am willing to do when it comes to the story and art, and well, I’m fully aware that no, this is not necessary a good thing. ToC’s a hobby.

But Silent Suns is going to be a racehorse. It’ll get everything it needs, too.  Racehorses, service dogs, all working animals need heaps of training and care, too. They’re often more expensive than pets, too, because it’s hard, directed work to allow them perform at their best. But perform they should. Just like Silent Suns should update thrice weekly and eventually pay my bills.

My pet-project spot’s already taken, afterall.