>>87240709There was a point in the discussion process where I proposed that rather than do a reboot, we instead do a prequel arc. Basically much of the same content that we ended up deciding on anyway. How Gogo and Andy met, etc, at the end of which we'd link it back to the story that existed before hand.
There were two problems that we ran into. The first is that we wanted to do some things differently. Didi, for instance, was originally just a spur of the moment thing that Van did as a gag, but ended up enduring because of the way it played out. If this was the only thing, then yeah, we maybe could have gotten away with some retcons and just done the plan I described above.
But then there's the second issue, which is the wider story that we wanted to tell. Or perhaps, more accurately, the story that surrounds the characters. The characters have been around long enough that they could comfortably carry themselves in slice of life shenanigans pretty much indefinitely, but from nearly the very beginning, there have been hints of large scale stuff, probably best summarized by the question of 'Who/what is Gogo?' We have answers for that now, but further retcons would be required for everything to smoothly fit.
So that's why the reboot. The DA incarnation of Bomango was a proving ground, and during that time there have been ideas that don't really jive with the plot and characters as they exist in the present, so a clean break was judged to be the best way to tell stories about Gogo and co in the way we want. It wasn't a decision taken lightly, and the DA gallery isn't going to disappear (in fact, I've slowly been working on putting it all together into a PDF edition for ease of reading).
If you had faith in what we were doing before, I hope you'll give us an opportunity in the present.
