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I forced myself to start, 'ready or not' as I put it, and initial response has not been that positive.

I feed off of positive response - it keeps me going - and negative response just kills the drive to work. I do my comics for free, so my 'payment' is imagining that I am making people very, very happy.

No one is complaining that my work here is bad, rather that it is empty. I had a long talk with Stephen about this, and I can understand the problem.

I don't think I am that good of an artist - I'm not bad, by any means, but there are many who are vastly more talented and able than I am. If I have anything going for me as an artist, it is my own little spark, a quirky oddness, about what I do with what I have to offer. I go off on some weird or oddball take on things, and I feel strong emotion when I draw, and that gets put into my lines and paint.

When I have been doing Takozushi, I have felt... nothing. A grind. I have nothing new to say here, like I did when I was doing Pastel Defender Heliotrope, also a Kamishibai story. I did a new take on things. But here, I am only doing the original Kamishibai, as it was, mechanically.

I don't feel like it is working.