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I rather doubt that. It would have to be something wildly egregious to cause a bunch of artists who have longstanding relationships with MCC to cut ties. Why it is that Expanded Universe and An Education have suspended, and why SJI only managed five new pages after more than half a year fallow, is very unclear, but it seems really unlikely to me that it involves Daphne having offended all her collaborators by advocating for AI. If nothing else, probably somebody involved would have complained about it on social media and we'd have heard about it. But also it's just implausible on the face of it.

I can not help but wonder whether it was use of AI that caused the pipeline issues.

A lot of creatives, visual artists in particular, have strongly negative reactions to generative AI.  I would not be at all surprised if the experimentations around this resulted in some kind of mass exodus.

You don't suddenly have this many artists suddenly stop delivering at almost the same without there being some kind of event triggering it.

I have no idea what it was...
I hope that its been resolved...

But I wouldn't be surprised if it was the AI experimentation.

I don't think I'm seeing an alignment difference, but the images in the page seem now to be being served up to Firefox as webp rather than png. This changed a week or so ago, I think. That could be because of a change in Firefox, but looking online it appears that this is something servers may choose to do if the browser says it can handle webp. The upshot is that if I download the image from a page, it's a significantly smaller file size and significantly worse quality than it used to be (and it's a .webp file). But all of that also applies to the image displayed in the page. I can get the .png file by telling Firefox to open the image in a new window (I think the browser turns off the webp compatibility flag for the request if you do that). But I don't know if doing that is going to trigger any anti-piracy stuff in the delivery system.

This is an extremely minor detail, but on the website, are SJI panels now slightly zoomed out in the browser page? They appear smaller than usual.

Try being consistent for awhile then running a sale. A promise things will get better along with no real content for months just makes me feel like you're scamming to get one more payday.

Alright, I've gotta jump in here. I've been around since 2016, and in that entire time until mid last year, they consistently came out with a comic every single week along with all of the monthly stuff. I too, just like everyone else have been frustrated with the lack of content this year, but it is very clearly an issue they have limited control over. They have given everyone a huge amount of free subscription time to make up for it, they are doing a sale, and Daphne has suggested multiple alternative methods to making these comics, in particular with AI, and they were roundly rejected by the community as a whole. All of that makes this comment feel very out of hand.

New issue dropped on the 14th.  No scam, just having trouble setting up a reliable pipeline and they are compensating members for it.  But yes, the issue with how long it's taking is why I suggested AI art.  I know they're playing around with making short videos using AI and they look good visually, and thought it could be used in a comic medium.  It was shot down, as people who are willing to pay enjoy the hand drawn look.

Man, the household scene at the beginning is one I've been waiting years for.  So glad to see this.

Try being consistent for awhile then running a sale. A promise things will get better along with no real content for months just makes me feel like you're scamming to get one more payday.

I believe that is Elettra, from Ring Cycle #9.

My only issue is that with the number of artists we've been through I feel like I need a SJI style character notation at the bottom of the pages. Who's the girl on the cover meant to be? The MC's girlfriend?