Well, where to begin… It breaks my heart to tell you that I will no longer be updating Pompfiction.

-DOON-

I can’t begin to apologize enough to the hundreds of people I will be letting down. So many of my loyal followers have come forward to tell me what a difference my comic has made in their lives, and I will forever remain grateful. It has given me such a deep fulfillment to know that my work could have an impact on anyone’s lives. It hurts to know that I will be letting down the people who have just begun to read my comic, for those who have followed it from its early developmental stages years ago, for the loyal readers who have stuck by me for every update, for even the casual visitors, and for the people that inspired me to put my heart into my work… I can’t shake the feeling that this’ll be a grave disappointment for some people, that I’ve let people down, and so I am sorry.

After taking a week off of Pompfiction, I feel even more moved to end it all together. I can not fully explain what has caused this feeling, but it is a mix of two things. Yesterday morning, while trying to work on today’s page, I felt so strongly that God was leading me to drop everything, and follow a new path. Though it hurts to leave behind what has become so much a part of my life for the past few years and venture into the unknown, I can not deny my faith. But there have been things leading up to this point. Upon attempting to pour out my best work for the return of Pompfiction after a one week break, I realized that my heart wasn’t wholly invested in the work. For as many great things as this comic has brought for me, it is always a reminder of so many heartbreaks in my life. It wasn’t always a one-man show, as I draw my inspiration from my friends and loved ones in my life, but it has been abandonment after abandonment, and due to recent events, I feel that I can no longer invest my heart into this project. For my characters are alive through the relationships with certain people I have to draw upon, and now that they are broken, I have lost heart for my work. I feel I would be doing a disservice to you and I, if I continued to pour out heartless, uninspired work… I’m just afraid that three times is a charm, and I can’t go on, on a broken heart.

That being said, I don’t know where I’m going now, but the winds of change are on my back. Though I feel defeated now, I sense something bigger yet to come. I hope to finish the Steel Chef chapter on my own timing, and publish it one day in Pompfiction Vol2, as a final homage to the work that I’ve invested over a year and a half of my time in developing. I can not promise when that day will come, or if it will, but those are my hopes as of now.

Please forgive me for my infidelity to any and all of my loyal readers. I wish I had more to offer than my sincerest apologies. It has been a good run.