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Hello again, anons. I'm glad you enjoyed my story time, in spite of how it was inevitably going to end. I admit this was partially a wee bit of trolling on my part, but there is another reason I made this thread.
Back when I was still keeping up with this comic, Hiveworks (as far as I'm aware) never put out any kind of statement as to why it was removed. It was just there one day and completely scrubbed from everything the next. This naturally left me very confused for a long time, and I only recently learned the truth of what had happened.
The cynical part of me believes that Hiveworks was hoping people would just forget about this comic and thus not associate their name with a convicted sex offender, which reeks a lot more of covering one's own ass than taking moral action. And given Hiveworks' past history of sleazy controversy, I wouldn't put them past this.
Regardless of their intentions however, there is an argument to be made that this story deserved to be forgotten, since the author's views and actions unavoidably become integrated into his work. Panels like Fauna taking a bath or being held by the big hairy ruffian take on a new visual meaning once you're aware of the author's intent.
Still, there is undeniably a part of myself that was just bothered by the idea of this comic being unarchived. Not everyone knows about the wayback machine, after all.
It's an extension of the Henry Darger debate I suppose; how much should what we know about the creator of a work's mind and soul be weighed against the quality of the work itself. And as the reactions in this thread have shown, there is quality to be found here in spite of who the author was.
At the end of the day, the situation is now this: These pages are here. They exist in an easy to find space for the short window of time that this thread exists. What happens next is up to you anons. Even if it's nothing at all.
