Thought for the day

There's a conflict, or at least a tension, preceived in webcomics culture between telling stories or gags. With AKOTAS, I feel what I'm after is making people laugh every day, but it can't be denied (though sometimes I do) that there's a story I'm telling too.

Today it occurred to me that the jokes I like best are character jokes, like I grew up on with M*A*S*H, and that therefore in order to make people laugh with AKOTAS in the way I want, I must tell a story because that's how characters are grown. It's not an either/or: I must create and maintain a balance. I wonder how effectively I'll do that, now that I've had the conscious realization; or how effectively I've been doing it without the conscious realization.

And here I am writing this instead of tomorrow's joke.

Addendum to the update reliability post

I noted at the bottom of the post, here in my journal, that I crossposted it to webcomics and to snarkoleptics. The comments at snarkoleptics largely amounted to, "The attitude you have isn't as uncommon as you think." The comments at webcomics mostly amounted to, "No way dude, give me quality over quantity every time."

I think what's really going on here is that I don't consciously want to make a big deal of my upcoming thousandth daily update without missing any at AKOTAS (or at least I don't want to be seen to be making a big deal of it), but I'm contriving to make sure everyone knows anyway.

(It's the Valentine's Day strip. A week to go.)