World 2 Wrap-up

And with that annoying cliffhanger, the World 2 arc of Badnix comes to a close! (And as much as I hate contributing to the belief that character deaths in comics are always fake-outs – you had to know Kevin & Hud weren’t going that quietly, right?)

Rog set out to find his team of misfit enemies almost two years ago, and it’s taken them almost 250 comics to finally reach the end of their quest. That number is still crazy to me! It’s about 75% of the strips in the archive. I have to admit, I was getting a lil’ burned out following up on all these plot threads I’d planned out two years ago – back when the strip was a very different animal, mind – but overall I’m very pleased with how much the comic has grown and evolved, and even more than that I’m just overwhelmingly excited to start in on World 3.

And I could! I would like nothing more than to jump in and start the next storyline tomorrow. But! I’m not going to. In fact, regular Badnix updates are going on hiatus for a while. And the main reason is, if I look back at the problems I have with World 2, the majority of them can be chalked up to the fact that I only gave myself a week or two – during which time I was still drawing comics – to plan things out. (Example problem: the fact that it took 2 friggin’ years to get to the end of this thing!)

So I’m taking a little break. I’m going to give the plotting stage a little extra love, I’m going to really work on brushing up the weak points in my art, and yeah, I’m going to finally get around to some other projects that have been languishing for the past 2 years (which includes some non-comic Badnix stuff, I should mention). You’ll still see new comics and blog posts around these parts from time to time, but it won’t be on a schedule or part of a larger story.

With that out of the way, I just want to say: THANK YOU to everyone who had stuck by the strip, who gives me feedback or shares it with a friend or talks about it on a forum. I know y’all are out there and I appreciate all of you! If I deprive you of updates sometimes, know that it’s only ’cause I’m trying to make Badnix as good of a comic as I believe it can be.

See you soon!

-CC

P.S. Going to post a huge preview of World 3 a little later in the week – don’t go anywhere just yet!