Thinking about why I'm doing this

Sorry for the slowness on the updates lately. I'm having an I'm-an-idiot crisis. Happens to the best of us.

I started writing this comic because I was bored to tears, and had to have something to think about at work to keep myself sane. The two things I tend to read up about the most online are bugs, and religions. Since those are the two most interesting things to me, I decided to write a story about them.

But I don't know that much about either one. I'm not an entomologist, or a theologian. I decorate cakes. Those things just interest me.

Realizing how incredibly little I know about bugs, I've started reading everything I can about them. I've started going out to parks, trying to find as many weird little bugs as I can, and posting pictures of them on invertebrates forums. The more I find, the more I realize I don't know. And I want to know.

When I started this comic, I thought it would be a good way for me to force myself to learn about arthropods. It's worked – I feel like I know a lot more than I did when I first started.

But what I know isn't enough. Most days, I just make myself keep going – the only way to fix this is to learn everything I can! But sometimes I just feel like I have no business writing a story about something I know nothing about. What if people read this thinking that I know what I'm talking about, and I feed them misinformation? Unforgivable!

Regardless, this is my favorite way to learn anything – take the things I know, and put them in a story.

I guess I can't take this too seriously. They're man-sized, talking bugs, on fire. I'm just gonna say it's artistic license and leave it at that.