Smart Muscle (Patreon)

This young scientist just finished creating a serum designed to rapidly build muscle. Having injected herself with it to test, she proceeded down to her apartment building's pool to get a full body workout to see how well the serum worked. Of course, she hadn't anticipated the serum working so well that she'd already be a world-class bodybuilder by the time she got to the pool. Realizing her mistake, she decided to see what some exercise would do. Would a swim increase her strength further, or had the serum already run its course?

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So, there was a bit of a gap between this piece and the last one. The reason for that is many-facetted, but ultimately boils down to lack of motivation/inspiration. I started making 3 other pieces in that gap, but I wasn't inspired to start those pieces and they suffered as a result, and so I essentially scrapped them.

This brings me to my semi-important update that I mentioned in the WIP for this piece: I am going to be making a few changes to the Patreon. First, I will enable the feature for billing to charge based on when you first pledged. I am unsure how this might effect current patrons, but I would imagine that it only applies for new pledges, and anybody currently pledged would continue to pay at the start of each month. (Message me if you think something has gone wrong with your billing as a result of this change.) Second, I will be removing all benefits for each tier other than general support. I intend to continue to treat the tiers the same as before making this change, though I won't make any guarantees in that vein. I have stressed a lot since I started this Patreon over getting art posted regularly, and I can't keep that up. I'm pretty busy with non-art things these days, and I feel many pieces have suffered in quality because I have pushed to release something when I am completely drained of energy and inspiration. I used to enjoy making this art, lately it's been a rare piece that doesn't feel like a chore. Anyways, this change will hopefully not be too noticeable by existing Patrons, other than the fact that I will also be changing the tax burden so you might see a smaller bill each month, particularly if you're in a high tax area. And third, which isn't really a change but more a look into my plans coming up, I intend to get back to the comic. I stopped working on the comic because trying to setup the scenes and render them was too annoying and time consuming, but now I have new hardware that should make it much easier to deal with. I have some plans for the next pages of the comic, though I'm also thinking I might want to start a different comic. Something less designed by committee and something that inspires me more. Not entirely sure yet, but I do intend to bring comic content back within the next week or two.

tl;dr: 1. Changing billing schedule to be based on pledge date, rather than start of month. 2. There will be no more guaranteed benefits for any tier, each tier will just be support at different amounts. I intend to basically keep doing things as I have been doing them, so hopefully nothing will noticeably change other than less monthly pledge tax bill. 3. Gonna bring the comic back.