the Vast and Stupid Land Beyond Time and Space. Page 20

…and we are back in business!

This is the point of the story when I realized that there was something wrong with my vision. The comic no longer looked good to me. It hadn’t looked good for a while. When I started “the Vast and Stupid Land Beyond Time and Space.” I switched the size of paper I was drawing on from 11 x 17 inch to 19 x 24 inch. The color didn’t look good at all. The entire comic was slowly going out of control in a way I didn’t understand. I didn’t want to admit to myself that my vision was getting a lot worse, but it was. I decided that new glasses was what I needed, and went to the local optometrist. That’s when I found out that my eyes were fucked up AND had cateracts. Soon after I shut the comic down.

This page through page 27 were all made before I knew how bad my eyes where. They were all published already at my Patreon, so I left them as they are, un-reworked and raw. The pages will remain that way. Things start to look better at page 28, once I had the catteract in my right eye removed.

Thanks to everyone who helped pitch in to get my eye surgery. And thanks for everyone who drove me to and from eye appointments. I can now see out of my right eye, but my left eye, the eye I called “my good eye.” is still a mess.

If you have eye problems that require getting an injection in your eye, don’t worry, the shot doesn’t hurt, and at worse your eye is a little sore, and itchy, for a short time. Cateract removal sounds terrifying, but is just a tad psychedelic, and very brief. No pain at all.

Thanks for re-joining the story.