So all of a sudden we're on the second to last page? What, so they can go and draw more porn comics?

So all of a sudden we're on the second to last page? What, so they can go and draw more porn comics?

>comic is a week late because depression

Seriously what the fuck?

Welcome to webcomics, where every author is a sad 20-something failure of a human being who relies on gullible Patreon millionaires to survive.

>where every author is a sad 20-something failure of a human being

Agreed. Same goes for Lets Players.

Blaster Nation was fun at the beginning but it just got annoying and went to shit as it went on. It's annoying how they subtly shit on Matt then partially remove him from the comics despite being the main character then turn him into an asshole out of nowhere. Also Rinnie is fucking terrible and her lesbian shenanigans are not funny.

>depression

I hate it when artists always say this shit. They always sound like a fucking girl on PMS making excuses.

I thought it was alright with the lesbian shenanigans. It was played up for comedy enough to not be frustrating. I wish they would have just stuck with a theme. I mean all in all after all of this is said and done what is the message of Blaster Nation? Was it about romance? Was it about video games? I just can't even.

To be fair, the artist is a girl probably PMSing.

Yeah but the writer is a guy. How much you want to bet they get divorced?

I honestly would have been fine with an extremely sporadic update ever few weeks, I understand their compulsion to go where the steady money is.

I just don't understand wanting to draw porn comics EXCLUSIVELY. It's a weird decision to me, and I'm not going to following their work any further. Not out of any kind of spite, because their work no longer appeals to me.

the farthest point I read was when the red haired chick was writing her original fiction thing about butter and it bombed, so she asked awkward girl to draw for her or something
what happened since then?

They fucked

>I'm sad so I can't sit on my ass and make a webcomic

for fucks sake what a shit excuse. I get depression, I've had my issues with it, but I can't tell my boss that I can't come into work cause I'm feeling sad. I don't read this webcomic, but I certainly would drop it after the creator made some shitty reason like that. Especially if I was a patreon, literally giving them a paycheck. God I'd be mad.

anything else?
main guy did not smash any buuzi?

Uh...the black guy got a qt Asian girlfriend...uh...I don't remember. It's been a long time. They don't update often enough.

The black guy's friend is gay, it turns out.

The main guy got rejected and shit on by every person in the cast so he went and found a new cast to hang out with and eventually started rooming with them.

But they dropped this comic to make their porno comic full time so nothing will ever come of this.

I remember now
hopefully the guy remembers him and puts him in the ending? iunno

>Viral market your shitty comic on Sup Forums
>Get a steady following after making thread after thread
>Suddenly quit cause muh depression

This is why I'll never ready anything posted in the "How's Your Webcomic" threads

Since nobody actually read the blog post and just assumed they're stopping because they're "depressed", here's the actual blog post

>So, this Blaster Nation is a week late, and I'm really sorry about that. We said on our twitter that some stuff had come up, but that wasn't really the truth. The truth was...we were just kind of depressed. The negativity from last update's comments just left us completely unmotivated to work on the comic. We figured that no matter what, nobody was going to like what we put up, so we said, fuck it, let's work on other things.

>That was really shitty of us, and I apologize. What we did really wasn't fair at all. We understand the frustration over the sudden ending, we really do. And even if some of you are a bit more vocal about it, that's no reason for us to just not update. We had to remember, most of you are frustrated because you really like the comic and you're sad to see it go. Even if some of you are ruder than others, you're still coming from a place of love, and the fact that you're this passionate about our comic is still a touching experience. We're happy you guys love the comic so much. It's thanks to you that Blaster Nation has even made it to this point. We can't stop this ending, and we can't guarantee that you'll like it, but we can put as much effort into it as we can. We're going to put everything we can into this upcoming finale page. You guys deserve that much. All of you. Thank you for your support.

>This finale page will take a week or two. It's essentially five pages in one, with really elaborate panels. Please bear with us while we put our all into it. Thank you all again for reading, and we hope to see you soon for the final Blaster Nation page!

If you think making webcomics is easy, by all means try it yourself.

Because you're afraid they'll get successful and then quit making them?

Well, that's not so bad.

>I just don't understand wanting to draw porn comics EXCLUSIVELY.

A decent artist and writer will make far, far more money doing pornography than any other kind of comic. Porn is something that people will always, always pay for, and pirating for porn isn't as instant and plentiful for porn comics as other types of pornography.

The Slipshine acquisition is probably making Hiveworks a decent amount of money, and they have a big enough talent pool and reputation to attract even more SFW webcomic people to doing porn comics.

That sounds just awful

Also I just find it a lot more fun to draw porn.

Is this the same author of Rockcocks?

To me that falls into the ''porn comics that are not porn'' category, as in porn movies have shitty plots that make no sense and have people acting in ways that makes no sense, but, who cares? Is porn/a web comic!!''

Same mistake that menage a 3, dumbing of age and other shit comics

Yes

Is dat u blaster cock sama?

Not that guy but really its more that you'll get attached to a story and get blue balled when some one decides not to follow up. I mean, web comics already take a fair bit of time investment due to the update based nature. Having a story be knee caped after fallowing for so long is painful. Its even worse when you get young artists who get hyped when they find a initial fan base and burn out or change direction. Not to say its the worst thing ever, it just kinda blows.

Wait, what the fuck? When was this even announced?

If I had the skill I would. Link?

>I've had my issues with it, but I can't tell my boss that I can't come into work cause I'm feeling sad

That's the difference between working on something as a hobby or because you love vs working, you don't have the pressure to do well and be better in webcomics like you do in a job

>pirating for porn isn't as instant and plentiful for porn comics as other types of pornography.
Which sucks for Niche shit. I don't want to pay 20 different artists just to get off

No, I can't draw.

matt was never the main character, he was just introduced first

>The comic "ended" a year ago and went into epilogue mode.
>People are now bitching about the sudden ending.
Are you fuckers kidding me?

Nope. I've got an on-going non-porn webcomic, and an on-going porn webcomic. The porn one is a lot more fun to draw, and has a much more active audience. So I can't fault anybody who would prefer the porn over the sfw one.

Shit, if the audiences clearly prefer it, why shouldn't the artist?

The comic didn't end. They just announced they were going into a less on-the-dot update schedule.

That's interesting. I got burnt out on drawing it after a couple years

This comic was only ever good when it was about the black dude and the asian guy anyway.
The rest of the time it's just a boring slog.

So it's an inherent issue with the genre in general, nothing to do with the HYW thread in particular.

I ask because I'm a regular there and have a couple hundred pages invested already into my webcomic, and I'm not going to quit come hell or high water regardless of reader comments or dissatisfaction.

They swore off arcs and announced their continuation as a more traditional stream-of-consciousness webcomic. I'm surprised it even lasted this long.

>Same goes for Lets Players.
That's not true, DSP is in his 30s.

Brad here. You probably remember me from such webcomics as Blaster Nation, or viral marketing threads about such webcomics as Blaster Nation.

Ask me whatever or vent your frustrations at me. Do what you must, I'm already dead.

OK !
Question ¿Why didnt you make a porn scene with Rinnie and the otaku girl ?!?!?!

Shoe us lewds of your wife.

Because Blaster Nation isn't a porn comic. We couldn't even show featureless "nipples" without advertisers freaking out and pulling ads.

Leslie drew a small scene on the tissue box tumblr, and Nerfnow drew a fuck load of Rinnie/Ash art, though, so there's that.

I'm not gonna shoe you a god damn thing

Is Jenny a dude come come on out with it

Did ash and rinnie actual have sex or they just sleep together

Make more porn of ash please

Ok... OK im going to look into that.
Theres a chance that Blaster Nation isnt gone forever?
I mean a GLORY RETURN with fresh shit and stuff :D ???

So if we didn't get porn because of advertisers, is there a chance we can get some of that porn now it's ending?

Jesus, I see why you decided to focus on porn.

Contrary to popular belief, Fort Shadaloo was originally based not on the Zaibatsu but on members of the fighting game community. Curt was based on Sanford Kelly, Tort was based on Justin Wong, and Jenny was based on Kayo Police. Take that how you will.

Yeah, they fucked. And no.

The ending will leave things open enough to where we can come back in the future if inspiration strikes.

Nah

Thats a good point :v

AWESOME! :D
So theres still hope.

Sounds fair enough.

Oh so that's where you got them from

Jenny is a real girl then

OH ! I got a good one !
Is ROCK ROCKS going to be updated frecuently now that you are finnishing with BN ?

When you started out, Matt seemed at least kind of sympathetic. By the end, he seemed like a passive-aggressive dickhead. Did you start out liking him and end up hating him or something?

That's the plan. The goal is at least four Rock Cocks a week.

Nah, even at the beginning, Matt was still kind of a passive-aggressive dickhead. It just ramped up over the course of the comic and more shit got piled on him coupled with him just being stuck in his rut. Everybody in Blaster Nation is supposed to be shitty but relatable, except for Kim who's there to balance it out and act as a string tying characters like Rinnie and Ash together. Derrick and Hai are maybe the only characters that aren't dicks.

I will say that Matt just wasn't very interesting to write about most of the time, and his room was always a pain in the ass for Leslie to draw. Honestly, I think the Matt-centric chapters are all kind of weak on my part.

How realistic is that goal of 4 comics a week? I would personally be happy with just 3 if you could keep it consistent. So the question is, do you two really expect to go at a breakneck pace to pump out 4 a week for the foreseeable future along with commissions and other stuff?

Good to know :3
Thank you

Well, we're going to start off with 3 Rock Cocks a week and build up a buffer until we can reliably post 4 a week. Rock Cocks pages are a lot more complicated than Blaster Nation, but now that we can focus all week on just Rock Cocks, I think we can get a lot done. 4 seems doable if we can get a buffer going first.

Plus, honestly, Rock Cocks is just really fun to work on. We love doing it, so being able to work on just that all week feels like a dream.

Any more kinks you plan on throwing into it? I'm impressed you guys went full gay with Seth. Trans, crossdressing, femdom, bondage, anything like that?

Yes to all of those.

Can the ending just be an orgy, please?

Well hot damn.

Do you generally just draw what turns your cranks or are you making a conscious effort to include all kinds of content people otherwise wouldn't get to see?

I think at one point way back when we kicked around the idea of doing a Slipshine-exclusive ridiculous orgy ending. At the end they'd clean themselves off and talk to the reader with lines like, "Boy, we've had a lot of fun here on Blaster Nation", but we didn't want people to pay for the ending and it was just kind a dumb idea.

Everything we put into Rock Cocks is genuinely something Leslie and/or I like or at least see the appeal of and appreciate. It also has to fit naturally within the Rock Cocks world and make sense with the characters, so none of the main characters engaging in diaper-play or anything like that cause that's not very punk rock.

/ss/ on the other hand is very punk rock

I would absolutely pay for that ending.

Same

I'll even select all these store fronts to tell you that.

Sorry, no kids in the Rock Cocks universe. You'll just have to re-read Bikini Cowboy or something.

Bitch no you won't, you'll just read it off of ExHentai

Couldn't the orgy ending just be a nice omake for paying fans?

Also, any chance we'll see any BN characters in RC? Maybe Ash's mom at a concert?

The Rock Cocks will stop by Louisiana at some point. That's all I'll say.

Oh, forgot about something. Is that cute religious chick from the gas station coming back?

If she is, can she secretly be a total freak?

We actually shot the suggestion of lewd pin ups of background characters (like gas station chick) to our Patreon supporters, but they went for main characters in sexy costumes instead. I like her though, so I dunno, maybe we'll figure something out.

Will they be helping with the flood?

You seem to be taking your time between sex scenes. Do you plan on amping up the frequency of debauchery? People have complained about plot and character development dragging down the pacing, and I kind of agree, but figure the more often you update the less padded the comic will feel.

Make her into either a secret domme queen or a degradation-hungry sub. Pls.

>using exhentai

Enjoy your viruses

Hey man, just want to say I've really enjoyed BN. Thanks for everything you guys have done.

Is the dating sim still a thing that's happening?

I can't say I'm surprised. Compare the average BN page to the average Rock Cocks page released in the past year and it's very VERY clear which one Brad and Leslie enjoy doing and which one is just getting wrapped up because of the fans.

Yeah, definitely amping up the debauchery. If not sex, then plenty of nudity and sexy situations. Some new characters will help with that, and I think a higher page count per week will, like you said, help things not feel so dragged down.

Thanks, man. And nah, no dating sim. I feel shitty about it, but it just wasn't working out. Leslie didn't have time to do art, we didn't have the funds to hire a new artist, and while I had planned out the general outline for most of the routes, nothing really seemed to click. Plus, I hate to say it, but Blaster Nation's fanbase isn't very big, which isn't a bad thing by any means, but it didn't seem smart to put so much work into a dating sim that wouldn't have much of an outside reach. There were like, twelve fucking routes planned, it was stupidly, unrealistically big, there was no way we'd ever have enough time to do it. I feel shitty for announcing that we could do it, but eh, at least we didn't take any money for it.

Some of the routes planned was sexy cosplay with Ash, wooing Dan with Dreamcast trivia, dominating Matt, and Melissa was secretly an exhibitionist because I can't write a single porn comic without somebody being an exhibitionist.

With all the characters having nerdy interests/hobbies, I was honestly surprised that there was no furry character. It would've been hilarious if they became friends with someone who either made art or the suits.

So this just means that OP is a bag of dicks?

Youtube money is more reliable than Patreon money.

>I can't tell my boss that I can't come into work cause I'm feeling sad.
1. Webcomic artists are their own bosses. Self discipline is a lot harder to maintain.
2. Drawing is a creative practice. If you aren't in the right mindset, you won't make a decent product. It's not the same as mindlessly processing TPS Reports.

Hmm, another thought. You got any favorite anime, doujin, manga, eroge, etc? How much smut do you and Leslie consume?

Any plans to do a Kickstarter for more volumes of the comic? It'd be a shame to just have the one.

Should I just delete my very small Blasternation comic folder?
Will you do some sort of "Where are they now" as a last page, and then have it be a fake out that still leaves it open to what it could be?

Curt's mildly furry. We had him wear a Cream the Rabbit shirt once, at least.

I play a lot of H-games and Leslie's gotten into an unhealthy obsession with Roadhog/Junkrat shit. We share a lot of hentai with each other but it's mostly softcore, super romantic, loving, caring, absolutely sick filthy shit. Shimoneta was a lot of fun.

Nah, we're still sitting on like ten boxes stuffed with vol. 1 books. We have boxes propping up our computers as I speak.

>We share a lot of hentai with each other but it's mostly softcore, super romantic, loving, caring, absolutely sick filthy shit.

At least it's not hand-holding.

You depraved son of a bitch. Take your filth back to

Blaster Nation was cute, I've been pretty regular at following it but it's also kind of sloppily put together. The fact that the authors have already had every character go through their main arcs and are now struggling to find conflict for them is a big sign that it's ready to be put down. Of course that shouldn't have happened to quickly to begin with

Brad sempai how do I find a wife that will want to make my porn comics with me? btw congrats on living the dream des.u

How many BN threads have you lurked on here? I know you used to show up in the earlier ones but as the comic went on you stopped. I'm just curious if you were watching us every time we discussed it, and what you thought of our impressions

Were you openly sharing porn early in your relationship or did you kind of accidentally reveal your tastes to one another? What made you realize you wanted to do a porn comic?

Do you have any kinks you absolutely will not put into RC?

...

Shitpost on Sup Forums and be an obnoxious snob about old shitty video games, chicks love that shit

All of them, and whichever ones I miss I search the archive and read them. I'm constantly googling our comics to see what people think of our comics, both to take note of any criticisms and because I'm an attentionwhore. Also I'm on Sup Forums constantly so I always end up coming across Blaster Nation threads like this one.

Nah, we've always been kind of open like that. We're the only people we're comfortable around. We realized we wanted to do a porn comic when Slipshine reached out and asked if we wanted to, and it just kinda spun off from there.

Do you mean like, actual personal kinks? 'Cause if so, then nah, we put all our shit in there. Hell, Emily Roller's in the comic because I had such a huge crush on Gum from Jet Set Radio. Leslie and I saw a really cute-ass Gum cosplayer at a con once and we were like fuck, girls in roller skates are cute, let's put one in our comic.

Oh, and I should mention that Steg exists purely because Leslie loves beefy, bara-ass dudes with slight pudge. Honestly, I think he might be the comic's most popular character.

Yeah but that's because he's sexy while still being completely real and believable. I mean he's a realistic person. Inio Asano does this really well, you might like his work.

I didn't like your comic and thought your tale was bland and predictable; not even caring for the bits of pandering you guys would throw in to keep readers hooked.
In fact the only reason I'm here is because even though I stopped reading this comic ages ago and don't even care for it, it's still kinda sad to see it go.

also Rock Cocks sucks shit.

Are you going to have any flash pages that have music in the Rock Cocks? There are plenty of people on Sup Forums that would love tof help for free.

Can you throw in some Bukkake? Or just some massive facials?