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.

If you want to support me you can head over to my Pateron page, my brand new Ko-fi page, or order some commissions from me. If you can’t afford to do any of these options you can help by spreading the word out to others. Any support of any kind is appreciated and I thank you all for following this blog for the past few years.

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.