B-B-B-BONUS PAGE!!!!!

I wanted to do a simple page and ones like these always feel like a copout to me, so I’m using it to draw attention to my goal. At some point I’ll come back and fix the page title. Anyway here’s an edited explanation for the previous blog so you can know what I’m trying to do. I know not everyone pays attention to the blog, so I’m calling attention to it for this.

Unlike most evenings I actually have something specific I want to ask of you. Advertising anything online has gotten extremely difficult with the prevalence of adblockers, Google ruining ads to begin with, and social media destroying the realm of the personal website. All my social media, which essentially is the same for the comic, have fallen into ruin for a variety of reasons. Not least of which is that legacy accounts are often broken by virtue of existing through site updates. Additionally most of my posts are little more than quick update links, which social media hates since they want you to stay on them. Video content is about the only thing you can use to get attention, but that’s not what I do. Anyway, what I need from you is a pitch of the comic in the comments to people who don’t know what it is. How do I sell this to people? I am a terrible judge of my own work since I tend to view it very negatively. Basically any selling points would be appreciated. Long or short, whatever you have that could be useful when trying to make my work enticing. I mean anything. Personal stories about why you started reading, breakdowns of why it positively portrays various things, ways it helped you in your life, it’s all on the table. I need to draw in more patrons. Not all that many really, but stable people who like the kind of low stakes tales I make. The problem is letting them know this comic exists at all. Ideally I’d like to do that without having to become a lolcow. Or at least not become more of one than I already am. So this is my earnest request. You don’t have to leave your name or anything. The site allows anonymous comments. I need help seeing the value in what I do from the outside. If you could provide a little I would appreciate it.

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Was wondering where Wes was. Though, no music section now?

It’s rebranded.

I have been reading this comic for years, about a year before Covid – I found it at a time soon after leaving my retail job, moved countries, and was generally making a lot of big (positive) changes in my life. Reading this became a little getaway, since retail isn’t always bad – at least if you get along with your coworkers, it’s a lot like hanging out with your friends all day on good days. It’s one of the few things I miss about the store. It also had a little slice of American atmosphere that was nice when I was feeling a little homesick – I loved where I lived, that wasn’t the issue. It’s tough not to feel that way when going to an entirely new environment for so long. Sometimes when you’re eating Japanese food every day, you just want a burger now and then.

In that sense, this comic gave me a little bit of home, and I cherish it very much. I may not be the most vocal of fans, but I do hold this story dear to my heart. Your writing style is captivating to me – it cuts to the heart of things at the right pace. One of the things I admire most about your stories is every character has true depth…their voices feel so different, and the chemistry between each pair (friends, relationships, enemies…?) all have their own distinct rapport, as we are wont to do with our own friends.

So, I hope that helps? Brain tired, but much love, Jackie :3 I could go on forever but I tried to stick to my main stuff.

Between Failures is Clerks without the self-loathing, where young people at the beginning of their lives feel the weight of the world in their small stakes because they feel helpless to change anything bigger.

In a world full of insincere nostalgiabait built entirely around an aesthetic, Between Failures is a story that actually makes me feel nostalgic.

It’s one of the few webcomics I’m still reading after all these years.

2995 A Bad Attitude. (Please look at the blog if you don’t usually.)

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