Paul Gadzikowski

I've given up on following webcomics, I think. I stopped keeping up with my daily trawls around the time my wife went into palliative care because it was feeling like a chore. Attempts to take it up again since she died - even just weekly, even only my top favorites - have all petered out. Every once in awhile I wonder what's going on with those characters, but it's been weeks since that was enough to drive me to actually look. I think it's part and parcel of the same thing I realized about Arthur, King of Time and Space about halfway through its run, that led me to drop drawing general interest comics a few months earlier than I dropped reading them: though comic strips are how my fanfiction is best manifested, it's fanfiction rather than comic strips I'm most interested in and satisfied by and always has been. I'll always wonder what would have been different and better today if I had realized this in 2004, or 1995.

• 7/23/11 zomg The primary cast on #Warehouse13 now are two male leads, a female lead, an old wise man, and his female protege - just like AKOTAS.
• 7/24/11 I must memorize 12.75 pages per day now through Wednesday to be off book by deadline Thursday.
• 7/24/11 Got half of tonight's line memorization done.
• 7/24/11 @TheOnlyTrout I, at least, sympathize with your twits today and your issue. I too am having comic identity crisis issues.
• 7/24/11 @TheOnlyTrout The projected life of the AKOTAS project keeps shortening in the face of my lifelong enthusiasm for fanfiction cartoons.
• 7/25/11 Those running the DC Comics restart seem uninterested in readers who don't want the same things they do. It's a fanfiction writer takeover.
• 7/25/11 Grant Morrison told an SDCC panel audience, in so many words, "If you don't like it, don't read it."

Aside from that I wouldn't have anything done over; I like me and my friends just as we are. In fact I might not turn it over for someone else if I couldn't use it, in case I didn't like what they changed.

I wish I'd started Arthur, King of Time and Space earlier.

Sometimes I wish that, instead of Arthur, King of Time and Space, my Officially A Webcomic On A Website Of Its Own was rather King Arthur in Time and Space, the one where I blended King Arthur and other legends with my fanfiction pantheon. I miss King Arthur in Time and Space.

Or maybe that I'd had the courage of the convictions I espoused online 1995-2004 and created a conventional webcomic around my fanfiction pantheon itself (If Power Puff Girls Doujinshi wins WCCAs ...) (not that I knew that then). The reason I didn't - lack of a legal fund - is as good now as it was then, but still.

Or maybe even that I'd gone online with "original" Dailies, what's known in webcomics culture as a "journal comic". The reason I didn't do that is as good now as it was then, namely that there's no sf fandom in this town and all my social life is online, but still.

... What? Regrets in my personal life? Nawww. That'd mean:
- I'd be regretting that I and those in my life are the people we've been forged into by the challenges we've faced.
- there'd be any level at all (say, in order to get them right this time) that I wanted to live those challenges over.