Webcomic Updates
This month brings us to the end of both The White Wraith and Sailor Justice webcomics. Last year I took a chance launching several new comics and while the readership numbers have soared, the Patreon numbers sadly have not. As of now it just isn’t financially possible to continue producing them.
The original plan for 2023 was to continue The White Wraith and Sailor Justice, but also to launch an additional webcomic that would update on Saturdays. This was going to be a reboot of an earlier comic I wrote, titled Mechanica. The original version of Chapter 1 can be downloaded by Patreon supporters here. There were also early plans to reboot Welcome to the Machine, but that’s been sidelined as well.
The other bit of unfortunate news is that, since we’re falling short of our current Patreon goal for color Danger Zone One pages, it’s likely we’ll be returning to black and white pages next month.
In the case of The White Wraith and Sailor Justice, I feel bad for the artists who put 110% effort into these comics and can’t work on the next chapters that were planned. If our Patreon grows this year, then there’s a very good chance we can do future chapters.
I’m a firm believer in constantly expanding/growing with new projects each year, and the additional webcomics were very much a part of that. I’m also a believer that taking a step backwards, as is happening this year, is probably a good indicator that it might be nearing time to move onto other things and possibly away from webcomics.
As of now GunRiot and Pallad City Stories will continue weekly. Our Patreon content will continue to be as frequent as ever, updating nearly every day.
It’s truly Patreon supporters that keep these comics going and it’s simply not possible to do so without them. If you’re enjoying Danger Zone One, GunRiot, The White Wraith, Sailor Justice, and want to see tons of exclusive content on Patreon, then there’s no better time to consider supporting these projects. Any support at any tier makes a difference.
That’s unfortunate. However, in this day and age, Webtoons artists provide 40+ panels a week in full color, so understandably, a Manga black and white page per week is just outdone on raw quantity in this day and age. Granted, the search functionality on Webtoons is horrendous, inundating the audience with the same basic plot lines and art styles, but the old style webcomics 2000s style internet banner functionality style is even worse as far as finding an individual work.
Essentially, there’s just not a good webcomics distribution platform that would allow “Hamburger Manga” works like White Wraith or DZO to stand out, even if the writing pushes them way above various schlock cheap romance webtoons.
That said, I wouldn’t know how to start, or manage, that kind of business. I feel like that should be the domain of various webcomics or webtoons veterans to create a platform with good functionality that can promote good, long-running, quality work.
I am sorry that you are not able to continue these amazing webcomic series. Is there a chance that you could return to them in the future when you are financially stable enough to produce new comics ?
100% yes, if we’re able to reach our Patreon goals we would definitely continue them. The same goes for DZO if we’re forced to return to black and white pages, we’d return to color once we meet our milestone goal.
I wish you all the best of luck in accomplishing your goals!
I feel like a way to incetivize people to get into patreon is to tell people why the pages are sundelly black and white again. I was very confused why there was this sudden shift sometimes, and I wasn’t aware it was because of patreon
And by tell people I mean, give a text page in between the updates explaining that because of a shortage of patreon money, the updates will have to be black and white again.
Most people, I am willing to bet, don’t read the news page right below.