Dunno, maybe go rawr at QC and LICD and XKCD for spoiling us by adhering to their promised schedules.

I can wait for updates. I don’t -want- to wait until everything’s done for updates, but whatever. However, it would be nice if there was something straightforward regarding this. I don’t even think many of the people who are cross about lack of updating are cross simply over the lack of updating…but as others have said, the abundance of incidents that put things on old, or the claiming of a schedule that is never adhered to. Yeah, there’s RSS. Yeah, there’s Twitter (which not everyone has and/or likes). Ultimately, it probably WOULD be best if you put, “Updates whenever the $*?& I feel like it.”

For all of the people going on and on about it being free art…well, for you, maybe. Some of us have donated to keep her in commission! Not necessarily just to see whatever mini-strip or whatever comes up but to support her work which is her primary source of income for her and her children. While no one twisted our arms to donate, the fact that we did was, in many of our minds, to help keep this alive–not just to reward for previous strips. I don’t want to call it a gratuity or tip, but to explain to some of you…the word, “tip,” is actually an acronym for To Insure Prompt Service or simply To Insure Promptness. I was under the impression that such donations would continue to allow her to do her work without disappointing people.

Again, I’m not so unreasonable to say, “Damn it, your kids suck, you need to come draw for us. Nao!!11?!” But it really does seem that your family is sick quite often, Rene. Vitamin C is quite good for the immune system… And I don’t really know of anywhere that requires someone to take that much time off to do their taxes. Sure, you get 100% excused sick days there, but do you get an excused tax month? But beyond that, there’s always something. This. Or that. Or the other.
Any given month would be only three weeks of potential update time maximum, if the MWF idea was adhered to even then. If you can’t make time to have a schedule, then just say so…I think there would be a lot less bitching. Either that, or take up a day job again because I imagine people will stop donating out of frustration and lack of fulfillment–some already have, as noted in above comments.

ALSO, I hope that once this is all complete, you’ll make a large coffee table hardcover book or something where I can read your comic by the fireplace with a drink without struggling to not drop my laptop

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html summarized my feelings on this neatly.

As for the comic, thanks for previous strips and I can understand an artistic decision to wait until you’re finished to put up the strips until the end. That’s up to you – if you think seeing feedback would influence you, wait! I’ll be happy to read it when it’s done.

that would allow for more regular updates.

its not a sense of entitlement, its a want for acknowledgment. she’s able to do what she does because of us.

I get it, Rene. Trust me. My 15mo rules my life…not some random faceless strangers on the internet.

I check daily, and do get a little bummed when there’s no new update, but honestly…no worries. I don’t spend my days angst ridden around this comic like it seems to do for others. It’s a great read with beautiful artistic style and I look forward to continuing the story, including the grand finale.

Have you considered gathering emails to send out notifications when a new chapter comes out or when you need to send a new update and whatnots?

Great job!

Oh, my cousin lives in Skellefteå!

Rene, if I were you, I would shut off the comments, shut off the forum, take down any 3 days a week or other little tagline that says anything about a schedule of update, and just leave this website as is until you have your whole comic done and post it up for everyone.

To the people who want updates when she has them, you are the same one’s who are complaining about the lack of regular updates! Don’t you think that if she did it like that, it would be this long list of complaints all over again in between each one?

Its HER comic, its HER art, she is her OWN boss as far as this goes and its HER decision what she wants to do with it. You are lucky she still even WANTS to finish it what with all of this ridiculous harassment.

Please feel better Rene, and I hope you don’t read all of these nasty comments, you do not deserve to be treated like this by your readers.