Blythe plushie campaign comic commentary and sketches

The Blythe plushie campaign is finally live! We've 75% of the way to the goal, after roughly a day. Actually really good, although I'm admittedly spoiled with Skye's campaign, which reached 100% in less than 24 hours. Not that I ever expected Blythe to do as well as Skye. Anyway, if you're one of the really cool people who already ordered, thank you!!

That being said, I think this will probably be my last Makeship plushie campaign, because 1.) I ran out of characters to make plushies out of, and 2.) Plushies never really felt super appropriate as merch for my work anyway (I'd much rather do figures or small desktop toys), and 3.) I don't want to do these partnered crowdfunding things anymore, because they stress me out.

I think the only way I'll do merch with another partner is if I'm licensing the work to them, like a GoodSmile/Fangamer figurine or Nendoroid or something. So... probably never. The plan in my daydreams is to make a game that people really like all over the world (like Helltaker or something), but I won't be able to make a game if I'm distracted making plushie campaign comics all the time!

Okay, on to the actual comic. I reused the same premise as the Skye plushie comic, but added the twist that Skye actually quits her job. I felt like I could do this because I'm also quitting my job, and I want Skye's career trajectory to roughly mirror my own. So she's gonna be doing her side gig off and on during her career break before (presumably) crawling back to Monday Corp sometime early next year. You know, unless Air Frye with Skye finally takes off.

I had very little time to work on this because the campaign start date was sooner than I expected. Despite the limited time, I think it came out pretty good. I'm happy I was able to advance the canon a bit and I'm also very happy that everyone was very happy that Skye finally quit lol

The next part was supposed to be a reveal of Blythe's boss and a tragic backstory for Blythe but I'm probably not actually going to do that because I think Blythe is a funner character when she's just evil for no reason, and I'm tired from wrapping up things at work and don't want to think about plushies anymore. So I had her foisting her responsibilities on Hana instead. She seems accustomed to that. I'll probably do some more art of Blythe in general over the campaign, but I don't know how much of that will be in comic form.

Anyway, thanks for your support!!