I suppose I owe you guys an explanation as to the lack of updates. There’s not much to say. I’m tired.
The Rift was a story I started working on when I was in high school. The first drawings of Niko were done when I was 13 or so. It took several years and many many reworkings of the story before I finally started to make real progress on the comic. If I’d followed this comic to its completion it would have been over 1000 pages long. By all accounts the story was very ambitious for a first comic, particularly one written by a teenager. I think it shows, there are too many characters trying to do too many things all at once. It has some good points I think, the characters particularly I’m still very attached too, though I do wish to rework them significantly, I still have plans for them.
The first page of this comic went online on December 10th, 2003, it’s been more than five years and 450 pages and the comic never found much of an audience. I’m sure many of you are reading this and thinking “but I liked it!” but really it was just you. I appreciate it, honestly, but if I ever want to be a professional, and I do, I need to be able to leave behind projects that aren’t working. And this one wasn’t working, I probably should have given up on it long ago.
Anyway here’s the unfinished pencils for page 456, which I started on but never finished.
If you look here you’ll see some designs for reusing some of these characters in a new setting. I’m doing more designs and I hope to be getting a couple of test pages for that comic up in the next few months. I hope you guys will give it a chance.
Thanks for all the support, you guys were great, what few of you there seemed to be. <3
SMEXY.
Well, if you want to stop the comic, it’s cool with me. I’m anticipating the new AU comic that you may or may not do. Whatever you choose, I’ll still be a fan of your work. :U
You gotta do what you gotta do. I look forward to seeing what you do next. Maybe if I can start from the beginning I’ll be able to read it
Sorry to hear that the comic isn’t working out. I’ve been reading your works for years, and yes “but I liked it” does apply. Good luck in your future endeavors. I’m sure i speak for most of us that read your comic when i say, “I’ll be reading whatever you work on next, praying for another update”.
Still a fan, always a reader.
Hey. It sucks that you aren’t going to update this comic anymore, as I was really enjoying where this story was going. But I understand that you need to move on, and I hope all your other ventures go extremely well.
Love your work. Keep it up.
I hope that one day you have enough of a following that you can return to The Rift and tell the story you’ve been trying so very hard to tell for more than ten years.
Well, it was absolutely wonderful while it lasted. At least I can stalk the AU.
Do you mind if I write fanfiction?
What? Not at all, like CV I actively encourage that sort of thing, but no one’s ever wanted to write for Rift before.
Im…. sad yet, glad, you will get more fans, but you stop a great comic, oh well, you might see me stalking around on CV, and im going as my gaming name, TheLoneSnipah, and i started using it in TF2, on account RED/BLU Sniper
It’s really sad that you’re stopping because this comic could go so far, but as people have been saying, if you can’t keep going you’ll still be supported plenty. People are just going to shift to your other stuff because you are just too good to give up.
Don’t worry ’bout ditching this, it’s your comic, your choice, and the best of the fans will just be glad you’re still going on other stuff!
Thanks for sharing your work. I did enjoy the story you told. May your next project bring better fortune.
It’s a bummer you decided to stop ‘The Rift’ , but its understandable if you just don’t ‘feel it’ anymore.
I really hope the new version takes off though!
Good job getting this far! Most comics I’ve read that went offline went offline a long time ago. I like being able to actually witness one going offline. But what are your “projects that ARE working”? Do you write other comics?
Sorry for taking so long to approve your comment, Phenoca. I need to remember to check this site from time to time.
Yes, I do write other comics, I did a journal comic for a while and I also draw a Team Fortress 2 fancomic called Cuanta Vida.
I’m also working on that Rift AU/spinoff/whatever you might have seen mentioned in a few comments. I’m hoping to launch that soon.
Hi. I’ve been reading your stuff for a while, and it seems you’ve gotten a larger audience. I don’t really know how many, or how much you’d need to continue this, but let me say I as well as others think this comic is great.
I know you’ve already started a spinnoff and all, but is there any chance you might come back and add to The Rift?
At the moment I don’t have any plans to come back to Rift. There’s just not enough interest in it and I’ve grown a lot as a writer and an artist since I first began working on it, and after more than five years and no fanbase to speak of it was just time to put it to bed.
Part of me wishes I had finished out the story, or at least this last chapter, but to be honest it had become more of a chore to work on than anything.
Ah, I understand. I just hate to see it end on such a cliffhanger.
I’d like to say that I enjoyed what you have of Rift. I read the whole thing in pretty much one day. I’m sad I didn’t find it earlier, as I think I found CV while you were still doing rift. I had no idea it existed. Is TWIYEH the spinoff thing you speak of?
Yeah, TWIYEH is the spinoff/reimagining/whatever. I’m not sure why I never tried to use CV’s popularity to try and advertise Rift, I guess I didn’t think there’d be many people who would like both.
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You’ll finish this when you’re done with the remake, right?
please?
Probably not, considering the amount of time and effort I already lost to this story with basically no readership, it just wasn’t worth it anymore.
I appreciate that you liked it, but coming back to Rift now would be a huge step backward for me both creatively and career wise.