The short answer to that question…I don’t know.  The actual answer after this warning: It’s going to be long and wordy.

Still reading? Alright, then.  Lately I’ve just been unmotivated.  I sit down to write a strip and I just can’t seem to get anywhere.  I think maybe it’s because I don’t really know where I want to go with it.  I’ve been tossing the idea around of just starting over fresh and calling the last 170-something strips a warmup.  The characters are still as much fun to draw as ever, however I think I painted myself into a corner in the way I established the strip.  A lot of times I’ll get ideas that just wouldn’t work for the comic the way it stands, not to mention the amount I censor myself knowing that family members drop in most days.

What’s this mean for the comic?  It means I’ll be taking a month or two to think about what I want to do. I   need to take a hard look and reevaluate everything. I may try to find a way to write it onto the course I want to take, I may toss the old strips into a folder on the server and start again when I have a clear idea of what I’d like to accomplish with it.  The only clear goal I’ve had since I started has been to find a way to make a living drawing one way or the other.  While I do have awesome readers that swing by and check the site out every day, the numbers have basically been the same since I first started, which tells me that there’s a lot that I need to change around here to ever make that goal happen.

That’s basically it.  Once I get things sorted out on my end, the strip will resume.  I’ll post sketches and what not randomly in the meantime just so I don’t forget my login info, but nothing on any kind of schedule. If you’ve made it all the way to the bottom of my rant/rambling and have your own two cents to throw in on any of this I’d love to hear it, ’cause if you’ve been a reader for awhile you’ll know that I really have no clue what I’m doing around here.  I’m basically my own pointy-haired boss from the Dilbert cartoon.