Akko's Mouse Problem - October Poll Comic +HUGE UPDATE (Patreon)

Sucy agrees to let Akko test her new spell out on her, undermining that it will actually work. But surprisingly Akko manages to turn Sucy into a mouse which she plans to show off to her whole class, Sucy however doesn't agree to it and the situation turns for Akko...

Alright, here it is. THE UPDATE:

So as many of you have probably noticed I haven't been updating the Patreon as regularly as I used to, and not out of lack of interest for making new comics certainly but a range of smaller factors.

I think I need to start at the beginning of when my updates began to decrease, back in late February last year I finally released my first chapter long comic "Tales of Autra", I was proud of the effort I made on the comic and felt like it was the first of many full-length comics to come. But I immediately knew I wouldn't be able to start work on the next chapter as I was still tired from working on it and still wasn't sure of my plans to take the story further. I decided to just focus on commissions and other work until I felt ready to start on the next big chapter again.

But it didn't take me too long to realise I had actually burnt myself out, I wasn't being able to complete the new poll comics I was posting and only just able to keep making new pages for the only other original comic I had going, Mouse and Giantess. In mid 2021 my country was still experiencing the middle of a lockdown during the pandemic and my mental health was beginning to deteriorate, I didn't want to make any update about it until I felt like I was in a better place.

In August 2021 I had two events happen to me which caused me to become very emotionally unstable, one of them including the loss of a family member. I wasn't able to work and began at risk of not being able to pay my rent or bills. I'm glad to have had a supportive partner and family help get me through one of the darkest times in my life, I could not have got through it without them. It wasn't until  Late September/October when I created the poll that the Akko comic ended up winning that I felt like I was beginning to return to normal. However I still wasn't able to work on the comic due to being behind on a range of personal work, I unfortunately had to put Dangerking11 on the backseat while I continued to work through things.

I'm happy to say Christmas 2021 was a breath of normality for me, I was able to spend it with my family and it felt like a lot of horrible events that happened before hand was finally able to be put behind me. The greatest irony could only be catching covid a week after to start 2022 off (which personally for me wasn't the worst experience, but I know there are many less fortunate).

January 2022 somehow became my most productive month in a long time, I had goals again and desperately wanted to get back into making more original stories again. It was coming almost up to a year since I released the first Tales of Autra chapter and thought it would be amazing to celebrate the anniversary with an announcement of chapter 2 or something of the likes. But that passed and went....

I still didn't know where to take the story of Tales of Autra, despite seeming like it should be simple enough. I want to return to the story and those characters but I think currently it isn't what I'm thematically interested in.

So what do I want to do next?

I've been writing scripts for some of the next comics I want to do next, most are similar to some of the stuff I feel like there's some interesting directions to take them. There'll be adventure, humor and most importantly giant big ladies, but I think these stories importantly will be something engaging for the readers.

Am I talking out of my own ass? Find out hahaha, but that's genuinely how I feel about the next projects that I'm looking forward to sharing more of very soon!

CLOSING NOTES:

I know this past year has not only been difficult for myself, but definitely for many other people everywhere. I know there's a lot more to cover but I felt like I should keep this as brief and clear as I possibly could. I need to say a big thank you to everyone who remained a patron during this quiet period, no one needed to stay supporting me and I do feel completely awful for keeping people in the dark for so long. Even if they're a supporter who left or joined even now! You all are the reason why I can continue to make original comics and I'm looking forward to being able to show you all first what I'm working on next.

This update is a mess I know haha, but I knew I had to say something no matter what.

Also "Why is the Akko comic 4 pages!?", I should have covered that much earlier in the update but for all future poll comics I'm very much considering doing multi-page stories now instead of a single page. I feel like with previous stories I haven't enjoyed cutting them off and not going further with the ideas of them, it may mean polls are less frequent but I think it will be more enjoyable and worth it. (also I may be considering other kinds of polls in the future too.)

Okay that's the update! Thank you all again and continue to stay safe!

-DK11