Patreon Steering Committee Poll Results (Patreon)

I put a series of questions to the steering committee tier ($12+) a few days ago, and got a good bit of feedback. Some of it was great and informative, some of it was also a little surprising. Still more was kind of what I suspected. The poll was designed to get a general gist of what people appreciate the most, not to determine what I do exclusively from now on. Still, I wanted the feedback.

I found out that the overwhelming majority of the respondents preferred stories and pictures from the Original Life/Better Days universe, compared to Lumpkinville and Cottonwine. This wasn't very surprising to me, really.

Preferred story atmospheres were rather split. Most preferred playful and comedic tones, while everyone else was almost evenly split between dark and heavy themes, to slice of life non-comedic themes. The latter two were also respectably presented. They were not distant seconds.

When it came to sexual contexts people wanted to see, most tended to prefer socially taboo relationships, and cute/funny/playful situations, with things like adultery and "sluttification" coming in very last. Relatively normal sexual relationships showed respectably, too.

Contextual kink preferences were spread out pretty broadly. Surprisingly, even though most preferred the OL/BD universe, anthro/human sex came up with the most votes for contextual kink. A *very* close second was BDSM/pet-play/master-submissive contexts, followed by "relatively normal" fetish contexts.

I gave a little list of *specific* kink acts people may wish I depicted more often. I'm not really surprised that Impregnation/Breeding/Pregnancy-Risk came out with the overwhelming number of votes by respondents, followed very distantly by "no preference" in second place. Things like girl orgasms and butt worshiping got a smattering of votes with everything else, and I guess I can't blame them. I imagine most respondents figure I'll be featuring those things a lot, anyway. I was just wondering if something specific would stand out that I wouldn't expect, and it didn't.

The last two questions were optional, but I was curious. Respondents were asked what their favorite adult comic story of mine was, so far, and in a bit of morbid curiosity, what their *least* favorite was, as well. More people responded with their favorites, than gave least favorites.

Perhaps it's heartening that a lot of people listed a pretty wide variety of comics as their favorites. However, a few comics got more than a handful of mentions as favorites. The Red Riding Hood series got the most overall (I lumped all four chapters together as "one story" for this measure), which is surprising, since again, the themes in these comics tended to rank low when offered as options for what people would like to see most in the future. It's a weird contradiction, and there are quite a few throughout the poll as I looked at responses from individuals.

However, the second place standout for favorites, with the most mentions, was Twisted Sister. This *coincided* with things people tended to want to see more of in the future, when asked in prior questions (inappropriate relationships, playful comedic, etc...). I suppose the RRH series can be seen in its one shot context, and people can relate to that for itself, but it can never really be repeated with the same strength. Whereas, Lynne's life (and women like her) have personal touches that make them infinitely expandable as episodic gems.

I'm tending to treat the RRH series as lightening having struck and amazed people once, while most of my Original Life characters are wells full of scotch we can keep going back to and enjoying ourselves indefinitely.

People's least favorite was a bit of a surprise. There was the usual diverse response but one title stood out with the most indications. It's surprising to me because it was one of my *favorite* comics to do: Second Chances. I loved the setup, I loved the raunch, I loved how I drew Rachel (finally), and I loved the ending (which I almost never do). It's one of the few comics where just about every page was a joy to render. But there it is with the most indicators of "least favorite." I'm going to imagine it was because of the theme. I offered people the chance to give clarifications to their choices, but very few chose to do so.

There's also a second pause given, because of my plans to include Rachel in my next adult feature after I conclude "The Itch" currently in progress. Albeit, it'll be a completely different kind of Rachel story, but nonetheless, the story has been getting high votes whenever I put it to the steering committee. I believe it only lost out by a few votes to "The Itch" the last time I asked for votes. Which I guess it's why it's surprising to see Second Chances so mentioned as least favorite.

Now, granted, out of the 70 respondents (yes, out of over 300 steering committee members, only about 70 responded), it was only mentioned as least favorite six times. But that's well above all other project mentions. Almost everyone else didn't mention a least favorite, or they mentioned a wide variety of different projects.

I suppose I can conclude that the people who dislike Rachel's antics tend to *really* dislike them above and beyond the other kinds of comics I do. But that a dislike of her stories isn't necessarily so widespread among my readers.

Anyway, above all this was very valuable feedback, and I want to thank everyone who took the time to participate!