Was this line really necessary?

Was this line really necessary?
Man, this chapter is such a bummer. A month ago this was one of my favourite reads, and now I don't even know if I'll continue with it.

I haven't read any of it since the format switch. Morbi has some good art, but he's a hack writer.

I would disagree, because I was really liking how the recent chapter was ramping up story-wise, but you're pretty much right with the pure text format. Shit's a slog to get through
What even prompted Morbi to do this anyway? Is he just lazy or is something going on in his life?

Wow, quality butthurt directly from Morbi. If this is how it's going to be, I'm glad I stopped reading.

He never had what it took to be a comic book artist in the first place. Simple as that.

Also this is the wrong board for this. This is neither a comic nor a cartoon.

>uh well dont complain about the obvious dip in quality you sucker or i wont do the comic at all any more
Morbi is just a dramatic tool, just like all furfags

I like the format change.

Then again I like reading stories.

Every update has had 3/4 images so it's been kinda the same as having the webcomic format. Things can move faster in the new format too.

I'd imagine everything about poppy finding and escorting the other opossum to boris's home would have taken like 5 or 6 updates if it was the other format.

not Sup Forums related.

This.

Poppy is no longer Sup Forums related.

I like the new format.
We got in one page of the new format a flashback story that would have taken 2-5months in comic form.

We've storytimed children's stories that were text with minimum images before on Sup Forums.

>He never had what it took to be a comic book artist in the first place. Simple as that.
He had enough to produce 300+ pages over four years, that's not nothing.

I've enjoyed the new format for what it is. It's both denser and faster than it was as a pure comic.

I think his writing is fine, but I can read comics like 10 times faster than books, if I'm going to put the time into reading a novel there are much better options out there.

>He had enough to produce 300+ pages over four years
With constant breaks, broken promises, and constantly shifting his deadines to adapt to his inability to work at a constant pace. Which kept being shifted back again and again because he couldn't match the reduced pace. He's an underachiever by nature. If you set the bar lower, he'll make sure the effort he puts in is just barely too little to make it.

Not to mention years of passive aggression in the form of threats to quit if even one person didn't constantly lick his ass. Didn't matter if 99% of feedback was positive. One negative response and Morbi is in a hissy.

Also this is no longer Sup Forums related.

frankly this
invest your time with quality content.

Weird how Morbi doesn't understand "Show, don't tell". I can't imagine anyone will want to read all that shit with a few pictures now and then.
Additionally, as Poppy is no longer a webcomic, it no longer has any reason to be on Sup Forums.

5 bucks says he's trying something new for the story but everyone's gonna hate it because they can't read without hurting their brains

>threats to quit if even one person didn't constantly lick his ass.
When has this ever happened? Morbi's too spiteful to end Poppy "until it's finished."

t. morbi.

He will when he sees that his readership will quickly diminshes, nothing fuels the spite more than indiference.

Joke's on you. I'm not reading it at all. Morbi was an amazing VISUAL storyteller. I got in to Poppy because the characters were emotive and the visual design was top shelf. Morbi can even draw good action scenes for fucks sake. Even background content told a story if you were looking carefully and linked in to the main story later. It was REALLY GOOD. It was good in all the ways a novel literally can't be because it's not visually based.

This is just a waste.

Where have you been? He's been passive aggressive in his relationship with his readers for years. Loved implying he'd quit from discouragement, but is only continuing for [reason].

I have no further interest in Poppy.
I only read it for the art, the story was mediocre at best.

Not sure who or what convinced him to make it into a (barely) illustrated novel, but there's no longer any reason to follow it.
As it is also no longer Sup Forums related, I expect that the few people who actually want to read it will move to /lit/ where it belongs.

Godspeed Morbi, it was fun while it lasted.

So can we talk about the actual update? I really missed Boris.

We can't talk about the update because it's no longer Sup Forums related. If you want a thread about the update, go to /lit/ or something.

Maybe you can't talk about the update because you didn't read it.

praise satan and its worldy trues
sage for non Sup Forumsntent!

That's cause no one bothered to read it, Morbi.

>What even prompted Morbi to do this anyway?
Simple. After going to art college and graduating and doing art for years and starting a webcomic and attempting to make a living off of it, Morbi has finally figured out he really doesn't like art. Being a grown adult, he still needs to "find himself" and decide what he wants to do with his life.

Christ, can you imagine being the guy this happens to? You buy in to the LIVE AS AN ARTIST meme culture had going growing up. As if it's a virtue on it's own. You like art and you have talent for it, but you've mistaken the whims of fancy for actual drive. Maybe at some point you have a moment you start to realize you only liked art rather than wanting art to be your entire life, but you squash the feeling immediately. You've spent your whole childhood believing the cultural meme and now you're shifting your adult life towards it. You don't have TIME for introspection. So you keep pushing thorugh the misgivings. You ignore the cracks in your own facade. You convince yourself this is what you REALLY want. Tricking even yourself so you can keep going.

Then you finally get a 'career' going out of it, and the truth is too close to your face to look away anymore. Even if you turn your head, you still see it. You hate this. You always hated this.

No, but I'm an adult who did the whole "What do I wanna do with my life?"/"find myself" shit when I was a teenager like everyone else. I didn't wait until I had a DEGREE in the subject to decide I didn't actually want to do it. Anyone who is unwilling to put in the effort on their own lives deserve whatever leftovers they end up with.

I forgot to mention the second half:
So Morbi decides to become a writer because "Writing isn't hard, they just put words on a paper, lol!" Morbi considers Art to be "hard", and Morbi doesn't want anything to do with a life where he might be expected to do "hard" work. Hence why he's looking at writing as if it will be his lazy-enabling bunker to live in. This will last for less than a year until he realizes that art and writing are very similar. Anyone can put crap on a page, but it requires effort to make something GOOD. At which point, I expect Morbi to take the Pictures For Sad Children route and abandon ship while screaming that society owes him a living just because he is an artist/writer.

>Writing is easier than drawing

Morbi

Morbi no

Morbi pls

Hey guys what's going on in this thread?

I don't know. I feel more like he'll realize he took a bastardize position that neither Sup Forums nor /lit/ is interested in and try to go all in on one or the other. Potentially back tracking to recapture his alienated audience from before.

If he goes all in on being a novel, he'll have the rude awakening that no one cares enough to make the lifestyle viable. IF he tries to go back to being a comic, I fear Sup Forums will forget everything and paint Morbi as a saint for giving them Poppy back.

Cause fuck, Sup Forums accepted Mister TWO YEARS without a complaint.

Not much. Just talking about people who think an ability to draw is equivalent to a general artistic sensibility that's universally applicable.

Idiots, basically.

>but I'm an adult who did the whole "What do I wanna do with my life?"/"find myself" shit when I was a teenager like everyone else.
It's perfectly common for people to be convinced they know what career path will make them happy early on, only to realize they're slowly spiraling towards a life of dissatisfaction. That's why the midlife crisis is so ubiquitous, or why so many people start colleges in one major only to graduate in a completely different one.
You're taking your experiences for granted if you think they're the standard.

Midlife crisis is more people realizing they are getting old, and desperately trying to become young again, I have no idea where you got your definition from. And the people starting college only to change major? AGAIN, because they didn't bother to figure this stuff out before they hit the real world. If they bothered to research this stuff, or actually try it out to see how they liked it or not, they wouldn't need to figure this stuff out down the line.

Please stop trying to act as an apologist for adult children. They have more than enough people to enable their shit.

>If you don't know what you're doing for the rest of your entire life by the time you're 18 and ever change your mind about it later, you're a MANCHILD
You sound like a fucking sociopath, dude. You're not going to be the same person forever, and the thing you were so sure about when you're a teenager isn't always going to be viable or satisfying.

>muh job isn't satisfying!!!
Talk to a garbageman, they will call you a manchild for this shit. Or anyone working a real job really.

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I feel like this could have been avoided simply by society admitting you don't get a job to be happy with your job. You get a job to enable you to spend money on your hobbies or raising a family if that's your thing.

BUT NO YOUR JOB MUST BE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. YOU HAVE NOTHING BUT YOUR JOB SO IT HAS TO MAKE YOU HAPPY. FREE TIME IS A LIE.

And as I write that I realize how true it is. With low minimum wages, people either work grueling hours or have multiple jobs till there is nothing but the job.

Ain't life grand?

kinda unsure how long he'll be able to keep hyped though, hard to stay in character as defender of the downtrodden if no one comes harm them

I think the idea is that just having someone else watching after Harley is a deterrent, especially since Boris is a major local celebrity and it would cause a buzz if anything fishy happened to him.