Of course I never intended my comic to be like this for many. I never intended to make the comic so boring. I started off with this story the wrong way in the first place - I wanted to make it an RPG Comic, admittedly to provide an alternative to Ian J's RPG World, whose jokes I found repetetive and even robotic to a degree. I wanted to make RPG jokes too, dammit.

James and I worked on the Midgar Swamp, once a thriving RPG humor center, where we had entire lists of RPG Cliches and fanfics poking serious fun at RPGs. I tired of that, and went to making game MIDIs, of which I was most famous. The summer after I stopped working on the Midgar Swamp was when I came up for the idea of Midgard - the setting and the plot. My friends thought I had a great idea - a post-apocalyptic upside-down world, where the layers of the earth function similarly to the community in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. All that I wondered was what to do with this idea. Did I want to make yet another IAQ (Infrequently Asked Questions), an FAQ for a fictional game? Did I want to make Midgard into an RPG Maker 2000 game? Or did I just want to write a story? I decided on the idea of a webcomic. I thought I'd attract an audience open to a serious story, one which I would have called my magnum opus in which all of my thoughts on society and culture would arise, changing the many that read it. Instead, with my petty Mystery Science Theater 3000-ish jokes and misleading drawing style, I aimed for the audience that I, plainly put, dispised. They loved my jokes. They thought my jokes were freaking hilarious. What could be funnier than three men dying horrible deaths while cartoonish bystanders shout obscenities?

That wasn't what I wanted, and I brought it on myself. Also, as expected, I found maintaining a webcomic increasingly difficult, and increasingly boring. Drawing was getting on my nerves, and drawing this story in the first place was my method at attracting visitors, which later, I decided, was a bad tactic, because, as I described earlier, attracted people looking for pretty pictures. Also, other people needed me. My family frowned at my sitting in front of Photoshop paining everything brown for hours, instead of studying and getting good grades. More people online still respected me for my MIDI-making talent. I miss all that. I want to spend my free time doing whatever I want. Basically, I was wrong when I asked myself if I was ready for such a commitment.

What does this mean? Midgard as a comic will soon come to a stop. That doesn't mean the story will, though. I intend to rewrite the story as an IAQ and complete it in that fashion. The site will stay up for that purpose, but I'll also go back to composing music, even some music I had intended to make for Midgard. In fact, I'm going freelance and making MIDIs by request. I'll still draw comics periodically at Mario is Stoned, and I'll blog often and hang around #rpgcomics, but I won't be drawing Midgard.

I had expected this to happen, even around this time, and I'm pleased with the way I've handled the comic, working around its flaws. I've never been good at completing projects (none of my IAQs have ever been finished), and I thought I'd keep it up for as long as I could, and I did a good job while it lasted. What should you, the reader, do? Keep on reading the IAQ of Midgard. Read all the comics I've listed below, specifically Download: LIFE. And don't forget about me. Email me. Visit my personal site often. Flame me if you'd like. I think I deserve it after all the promises I made about this comic. I'll end this message with some shoutouts, since I never really thanked anybody for helping me with this comic.

• Bouncy Fish, my first fan, and the first one to understand the complicated setting.
• Bob Jones, who draws Download: LIFE. You unconsciously helped a lot with this comic.
• Francois. You're a big arrogant conservative pig, but you still helped me work out easier explanations for the complications in the comic.
• Everyone who's contributed fanart, especially Psycho Tiyal, the biggest contributor of fanart to the site. Seriously, I think your comics are great, and I haven't been able to thank you properly yet for all of your gifts to me.
• Joel Levin. Even though you can't visit the website, and even though you are definitely my youngest fan, you're my biggest fan, and I think I should apologize to you the most, since you'll probably be heartbroken about my comic finishing without a rational explanation of the Jormungand's energy source. I'll be sure to finally explain it to you.