Not Into It Anymore

I guess, to be honest, I was never into it for a long time. By "it" I mean drawing and writing my webcomic Lovarian Adventures. I've posted in the past about my lack of willingness to continue this comic and I thought having been offered a spot on the respectable Graphic Smash roster would revitalise my ebbing enthusiasm for the project.

At first, it really did. I was very excited to put together my little homepage and archives on the Graphic Smash site. I edited the older pages to make them more presentable. I wrote a more polished script for the upcoming Chapter 7 of the story. But when it came to actually drawing the comic, I procrastinated a lot. The excitement wasn't there. I'm actually half-way through page 4 of Chapter 7 but my heart wasn't into it.

I had a hard thought about it and these are what I thought may be the reasons for my lack of enthusiasm for my own comic nowadays:

• I started this comic back in 2001 only to test and hone my art skills in preparation for a totally different comic book story I really wanted to make. Since it was to be a test comic, I just made a comic I know I'd be very comfortable in making: a comic based on a fantasy world I know by heart (because it was a setting I used for my old Dungeons and Dragons campaign) with characters I'm familiar with (having drawn a lot of Tolkienesque fantasy characters before I started the project). It being a test comic, I never expected it to do well during its first year in the web.
  
  
• The story and premise is not unique. I did not design it to be unique right fromt he start. Anybody who drops by will know that it's just another Tolkien rip-off or D&D inspired story. Although I haven't received a lot of feedback from readers explicitely complaining about this, I know this for a fact. And to me, that makes me unoriginal. Although nobody is saying it to my face, I know a lot of passers-by would be thinking so.
  
  
• I created a story that will not end any time soon. Two years into doing this comic and I was still at the very beginning of the story. It was then I realised that in order to finish this story, I'd have to update more often but even then, it'd take me several years to end this story. In hindsight, I wish I started with a simpler story. Something I can end in less than a year so that if my feelings about the comic change, I can conceivably endure drawing the comic until I finish it then move on to a different story.
  
  
• I'm not receiving a lot of feedback about the comic lately. I cannot fault the old time readers for not giving feedback though as they've already read the pages that are being shown as current at this moment. Also, based on the stats I have on the comic, it's not doing as good as it did like two years ago. So, no feedback and low readership would additionally (and probably) equate to my having a small share of the divvy come payday at Modern Tales (though I don't think money would make a difference anymore). That makes me think, "why am I continuing to do this comic again?"

So, would I continue unwillingly or should I simply resign now and give my slot to some other webcomic artist who will be more willing to draw comics and in turn would be more worthy of the Graphic Smash spot I'm currently occupying?

I don't know what I'll do but I should decide soon. The earlier I decide on a course of action, the better it will be for everybody (readers, the people at Graphic Smash and me).