>>149560486The problem is Dan is autistic and now in his 40s and online culture has changed so much from when EGS first started. One of the things I notice in reading these old comics is that they're way, WAY different in tone than modern EGS. There's jokes, there's more of a snarkier edge, it just kind of embraces what it is which is a weird, kind of shitty but earnestly created slice of life fetish comic with digressions for anime action scenes. Dan doesn't need to justify any of this stuff in the comic, he just puts it out there and hopes the readers will go with it.
But now the environment is different and Dan is older. There's no more sexualization of anything aside from, I assume, his Patreon art. Everything needs to be explained in detail. And I think part of that is both a result of getting older and also because he's worried he'd be castigated for just going "yeah, I like guys turning into girls and anthros and shit" because there has to be more meaning to it and just embracing it as light and pointless fetish shit is harmful to real trans people or some shit. But I also wonder if at some point he just got bored and wanted to make it more dramatic and thus all the humor and energy from the early days is gone to be replaced by much more serious stuff. It's like an autistic, fluffy Funky Winkberbean.