Been wanting to announce this for awhile, now seems like as good a time as any.
The Clone That Got Away is going to be rebooted as it’s own original comic. It will now take place in a more cartoony universe (along the likes of ToonTown in Roger Rabbit, and it will also take place in the same universe as my other original project in the works Think Ink).
The url of the current blog will be changed to “theponyclonethatgotaway”, while the new blog will keep the original url.
Most of the original characters from the blog will transition into this new version, redesigned as anthro animals. Some various story elements are still being worked out such as who’s gonna play the “Twilight Sparkle” role in the origin, as well as how the rest of origin is going to play out, but it is being worked on.
So far the story is that Diane is the clone of a mascot pig actress for a meat packaging company, this pig also loves to eat meat. There are a few more details worked out but they’re a bit too long to go into here.
Some people not in the know might ask “Why are you doing this?” or “Why not leave it as an MLP blog?” While I still love MLP and the universe, I don’t exactly have a ton of free time to completely devote to ongoing fan projects (a one of comic page or maybe a short story sure, but not an ongoing thing). If I’m going to devote a ton of time to a project this big I want it to be something I can make money off of in the future without having to worry about Hasbro issuing a Cease and Desist. Not to mention I’ve been working on the character of Diane for so long that I consider her as original as the rest of my original characters, and I wanted her to be completely mine without a tie to something I don’t own the rights to.
As for when this new original version will come out. Don’t expect it anytime soon. If I had to take I guess I assume it will take no less than a year to get it ready, but there’s still a lot of factors to work out.
Anyways, I thank you all for your support and I hope you all look forward to the new original version of “The Clone That Got Away.”
Hello guys. You might have noticed that updates have once again slowed down. I feel it’s about time I give you a full explanation of my current status.
Last year I graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in sequential art. As a result I’ve been spending a large portion of my time either looking for a job or improving my portfolio, as I now have a lot of stuff to worry about like paying for insurance or trying to move out of my parent’s place. I have also been spending a lot of time developing an original project known as Think Ink, I’m hoping to make that a success. I still love MLP (I wouldn’t be tuning in every Saturday Morning if I wasn’t) and making fan content in general, but I don’t want to be known as (if you excuse the pun) a one trick pony.
Fan Comics are a lot of fun for me to do, but they don’t exactly pay the bills. Now some people have found financial success doing fan content, but I’m not quite one of those people. Now don’t get me wrong, I am extremely thankful for every single dollar donated to me via Patreon and I have been getting more commission requests recently than I have over the past few years, but so far the most I’ve gotten with both of those is around $300 per month, that’s not exactly enough to live off of (it might seem like a lot at first, but overall it isn’t). Course I could get into merchandising (I have considered things like Diane T-shirts and phone cases), but there’s only so far I can go before Hasbro starts alerting their lawyer team.
Some of you might be thinking “Well Joey if that’s how you feel why not just rework The Clone That Got Away into something completely original,” and that idea is certainly something I thought of, but here’s the problem. Diane isn’t just a random character that I decided to place in the MLP universe, she was based on a story element from an episode and many elements of her story were thought of with that universe in mind (Stuff like her cutie mark and her coming from the mirror pool among several other things I have yet to reveal). Not to say putting her in a completely original universe can’t happen, but it would take a long time to properly think of how to do that while still containing most of her original story elements.
If I didn’t have these issues at the moment there would be little stopping me from updating “Clone” on a regular basis, this is sadly one of those occasions where it’s not a “Updating when I feel like it”, it’s “Updating when I’m able to.”
The blog will continue for the foreseeable future (as of this writing the next few posts are simple Q and As, which shouldn’t take me too long), but for now updates will be very sporadic due to me trying to find regular work.
This isn’t goodbye, more of a “I’m a bit busy with other things at the moment” kind of deal. Rest assured wether it be fan made or original I’ll keep Diane around somehow.
Hope you all have a swell day.
((Day reblog))
Anonymous asked:im sad that the blog is dead i mean people always say the will come back and the noting
The blog is not dead.
There’s a difference between “This blog won’t be updating on a consistent schedule” and “This blog won’t be updating at all.”
I’m sick and tired of people assuming that just because blogs don’t update every single week that means that they are dead.
Hello guys. You might have noticed that updates have once again slowed down. I feel it’s about time I give you a full explanation of my current status.
Last year I graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in sequential art. As a result I’ve been spending a large portion of my time either looking for a job or improving my portfolio, as I now have a lot of stuff to worry about like paying for insurance or trying to move out of my parent’s place. I have also been spending a lot of time developing an original project known as Think Ink, I’m hoping to make that a success. I still love MLP (I wouldn’t be tuning in every Saturday Morning if I wasn’t) and making fan content in general, but I don’t want to be known as (if you excuse the pun) a one trick pony.
Fan Comics are a lot of fun for me to do, but they don’t exactly pay the bills. Now some people have found financial success doing fan content, but I’m not quite one of those people. Now don’t get me wrong, I am extremely thankful for every single dollar donated to me via Patreon and I have been getting more commission requests recently than I have over the past few years, but so far the most I’ve gotten with both of those is around $300 per month, that’s not exactly enough to live off of (it might seem like a lot at first, but overall it isn’t). Course I could get into merchandising (I have considered things like Diane T-shirts and phone cases), but there’s only so far I can go before Hasbro starts alerting their lawyer team.
Some of you might be thinking “Well Joey if that’s how you feel why not just rework The Clone That Got Away into something completely original,” and that idea is certainly something I thought of, but here’s the problem. Diane isn’t just a random character that I decided to place in the MLP universe, she was based on a story element from an episode and many elements of her story were thought of with that universe in mind (Stuff like her cutie mark and her coming from the mirror pool among several other things I have yet to reveal). Not to say putting her in a completely original universe can’t happen, but it would take a long time to properly think of how to do that while still containing most of her original story elements.
If I didn’t have these issues at the moment there would be little stopping me from updating “Clone” on a regular basis, this is sadly one of those occasions where it’s not a “Updating when I feel like it”, it’s “Updating when I’m able to.”
The blog will continue for the foreseeable future (as of this writing the next few posts are simple Q and As, which shouldn’t take me too long), but for now updates will be very sporadic due to me trying to find regular work.
This isn’t goodbye, more of a “I’m a bit busy with other things at the moment” kind of deal. Rest assured wether it be fan made or original I’ll keep Diane around somehow.
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