>>100497825I did learn a small lesson there, and that was in order to avoid the same thing happening again, I'd just work on comics without putting them online until a sketchbook was full or they were complete. Shell which I started in 2007 and put a complete copy of online after minus ended was like a test run for that. And of course, when minus ended I was free to start updating Socks again. I had a month or two of strips already completed and started working on the comic again, only to run into some snags. Partly because the 2008 version of myself didn't seem to like working with ideas and artwork that had been lying around for two years, partly because I was starting to feel the weight of the research that would need to go into doing a good job of handling a foreign setting full of characters from different historical eras.
But the fatal setback was that something was wrong with my paper. I had about 4 months worth of strips almost complete and was getting ready to apply the ink washes to them, only as soon as the paper got wet, it started to bubble. I have no idea why, but thousand of little beads would pop up and none of the washes would take. So all of those pages were unusable, and I was faced with redrawing them, or doing something else. I went with the latter and decided to work on Great which I had started earlier in the year, with the intent of working on Socks once the new year hit, which is in fact when I started redrawing the pages.
Only I went mad, and kept redrawing them over and over again.
