Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
At a certain point, when you're pushing 40 and have spent one-quarter of your life drawing a stick figure comic about D&D, you start to ask yourself whether what you are doing is really important and what impact, if any, your work will have on the world beyond momentary distractions.

Or maybe it's just that at a certain level of success, you stop worrying about whether a public stance you take on something that actually matters to you might alienate readers because there are things that are more important than sales numbers.

Probably a mixture of the two.
As someone who has recently pushed 40 and had it start to push back, I understand this sentiment. Even though we're in very different careers with very different public visibility and, by some measures, very different levels of success. :) These are pretty universal questions, and common conclusions to come to, after a certain point.

I think some of it also stems naturally from just individual growth and change as a person. The writer who wrote Durkon's impassioned pleas to his murderer is not the same person who wrote the Forced Tentacles of Intrusion jokes. The artist who was drawing flame effects for V's spells a few comics ago is not the same artist who was drawing goblins in the first few comics. And so on.