Bryan Fair ([info]gunru) wrote in [info]rpg_world_comic,
@ 2007-06-07 16:31:00
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I usually never do this, and I'm a very quiet individual. I even reactivated my account to say this. I always enjoyed Ian's story. I think that he shouldn't ever be ashamed of it. I understand not having time, or not enjoying writing it. But Ian should be proud of his comic, because it entertained so many people. Thank you for still caring and posting more. I don't care if Ian stops the story or not, but I do hope that if he does, he stops for the right reasons.

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Sympathy for "embarrassment"
[info]ninikuu
2007-06-07 10:54 pm UTC (link)
Think about it like this:

If you're a storyteller (be that comic, animation, writing what have you) that's trying really hard to improve yourself you're going to get better. As you grow you teach yourself how to tighten things up and how much is too much and what is not enough. Additionally, your interests and desires are going to change. What you want to accomplish by doing something is going to change.

I've been drawing since I was 10- I'm 26 now (oh my, I'm old on the internets!). I am EMBARRRRAAAAAASSSED to look at what I did as I worked at my craft, even up to 2 years ago. It's going to happen! It doesn't mean that I wish I never did the things I did earlier. They're things that have shaped me into what I am today. It is embarrassing to look back though! "Oh man, I really didn't need to have that character talk that much," or "oh this panel has TOO much detail drawn in it," or "ooooh I can't believe I thought that idea was clever, how lame!"

I think that's what Ian's getting at when he says he's embarrassed about RPG World. He's an older, much more experienced artist than he was when he began sharing his work with the internet.

Embarrassment is a good thing. It's like instant validation that you're getting better, stronger at what you're doing.

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[info]pianoman0391
2007-06-08 01:18 am UTC (link)
I forgot I had an account here. Anyway, I'm glad I check the comic every once in a while (and have been since August 2003 or something like that) because it's nice to see that Ian hasn't technically given up yet on his comic. It's a fun, great story and it would be nice to see it end on a good note.

And then I'll wait for RPG World 2. Maybe.
(BTW, I heard somebody made a fan game about the comic, but I can't find it. At all. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?)

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Re: Sympathy for "embarrassment"
[info]mourningdove
2007-06-08 03:01 am UTC (link)
I could never understand the resentment people felt for Ian as the comic was drawing to a close. You could tell that his interests were leaning toward animation. I would rather he do what he loved than to shell out crap just to finish up a story. It's not like he was paid to do it or any thing.

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[info]ninikuu
2007-06-08 06:27 pm UTC (link)
Hear, hear!

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Re: Sympathy for "embarrassment"
[info]the_pangolin
2008-06-27 03:44 pm UTC (link)
A lot of people had invested nearly five years of their lives in his comic. They were emotionally invested in it, they'd given him money to keep doing it, and they'd bought his products.

Imagine if something like Lost just ended in the middle of a season, with no resolution of anything, and in response to fan-outcry the producers said: "What, that? Oh, we're bored so we quit. We're going to go make a documentary about sap now. You people are morons -- get a life." Or if you'd gone to see a movie with an aggressive marketing campaign, only to discover that it just stopped in the final act because the lead actor decided he wanted to do something else and was too good for the movie now.

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Re: Sympathy for "embarrassment"
[info]mourningdove
2008-07-07 03:40 pm UTC (link)
(Whoa, old skool comment. Totally forgot about this thread)

Honestly, I'd rather Lost end without a resolution if they start getting bored. Otherwise, it'll turn into some thing like Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks should have ended at the high point, before Lynch finally went "Er, yeah. I honestly never really knew what was going on."

Not quite the same, but Charles Dicken's novel "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is a far better novel because he never finished it. (He died before revealing who the murderer was) The debates, the criticism, the plays that have come from it is far better than if he simply did a very predictable mystery.

A movie would be pretty lame-tastic, though. On this I can agree.

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Re: Sympathy for "embarrassment"
[info]the_pangolin
2008-07-14 08:32 pm UTC (link)
Except a movie and a tv show still don't convey the same sense of disappointment and investment that fans of a comic strip like this have experienced. Especially not one which went on for soooo many years, and had only one real "performer" (Ian JQ) who worked INCREDIBLY hard to create that fan-base -- even begging for money so he could keep on making it at several points.

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[info]the_pangolin
2008-06-27 03:37 pm UTC (link)
Ian doesn't care what others feel or think about his work. He only cares about what he feels and thinks about it. Unless those people are paying him.

Except people DID donate money to him to keep RPG World going, so I guess even then money isn't a guarantee.

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