So my comic was originally a novel, and then I turned it into a comic, and the comic was all I posted on here before I was like ehh, I'll just post the novel too. (so it appears like the comic came first--but that's not so, the novel did.)
I initially did that because I wasn't super satisfied with the book in general, so I never sent it into a slush pile and it was just...a novel sitting on my computer. So I thought that making it a comic would bring a different style, a different vibe, and readers who already knew me for my art (because I'm an artist most of the time. People don't...really know I write)
And while it did do that, I found myself sort of pining for the novel that it used to be. Comics (especially webcomics) have lightning fast pacing, and so I had to delete detail after detail and spend just a crazy amount of time to do...1/5th of my novel. 2.5 years: 1/5 of the book. It's crazy how long it takes.
And so after 2.5 years, I was looking into the future of what I knew was coming in the novel and realized that in the many years it had been since I wrote it that I have become a different author. I was feeling a commitment to works that no longer sound like me. And so I just...recently retired the comic portion because...I have to rewrite the novel, hahahaaa. (mind you this was the 2nd novel I wrote in my life so...it...isn't consistent)
So that's the biggest problem--it's a different medium so you get a different experience. And then the second biggest problem is time. It just takes too long and it's too easy to grow out of your work. you could raise a child in the time it takes to make a long webcomic the length of what happens in a novel. Webcomics are...kinda short in comparison to books.