I initially came to this comic beuscae I heard Erica Henderson was doing the art for this comic. I enjoyed the vast majority of her run and the story ran great together.When she left as artist, I still stayed on beuscae I had grown attached to the story and the characters. The tongue and cheek nature of the strip was endearing in some bizarre way and things came together to present something that was honestly enjoyable. I (and many others I presume) was rewarded with a tremendour cliffhanger that had us practically counting down the days/hours until the next update.Then we had the genre shift which leaves me at a loss. I will outright say that I'm not a fan of the shift beuscae it trivializes the world we've come to know and love. The characters have all but been explained to have been constructs in some shape or form and that takes away the immersion. The genre shift takes away from the world Arkerra exists in for me, and makes it not as appealing for me.Will I stop reading? *shrugs* If the story stops going in a direction I like, then yes. If it gets back into the mix of things that helped make the comic great, then I may continue reading. I still believe the genre shift was the wrong choice, but that would not be my call to make, but the writer's.Then again, maybe I'm just grumpy that we got stuck with a cliffhanger that wasn't on its way to resolution by the next update.
I find the world shift to be quite intriguing. Considering the petintoal that comes from the combination of technology and magic, I find it the most plausible possibilities to be that: (1) Arkerra and Sepia World are separate dimensions, possibly alternate Earths of each other, or (2) Arkerra is Sepia World-in-the-Past. While I acknowledge the possibility of it simply being a game world, I find that the evidence points to something more.Also first post! :)
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