Hello old friends.. I've been thinking about continuing this recently. I'm not sure if anyone is still around, but if you are, please give me a little longer to rewrite the story. It's been so long since I've worked on it. You don't have to read this, but I wanted to explain where I've been.

I don't usually get personal online, so bear with me. I feel kind of weird about it. Mo and I (Mocha) had planned to make a few comics years ago. I made masked shadow independently both because I wanted practice on drawing comic formats, and because Mo was frequenting on the internet less often.

When I created this comic, I was at a really good place in my life. I had lost a lot of weight and felt confident for the first time in my life. I had a lot of new friends and was always working on creative projects. I wanted to spread body positivity and wanted everyone to love themselves as much as I did! I decided I was going to express that through this comic. Unfortunately shortly after making it, things changed.

I had a falling out with all my new friends, mainly because of a toxic relationship, and in the end I lost most of them. All of my old friends had moved away by this point and Mo was no longer available as she had moved too and created a life of her own. I am happy for her! But I became really lonely and depressed. I gained weight, I worked a lot, I gave up on art. I couldn't relate to these characters anymore because I no longer liked myself. My cat children who were always there for me passed away as well.

I now have found someone who has helped pull me out of it. I don't think he realizes how much he's helped me. But regardless, I'm feeling much happier these days! Maybe not everything bad has gone away, but I'm working on improving it all!

I would like to restart masked shadow as I return to my own journey of loving myself again, and being able to create art I enjoy. Thank you for reading. It it feels good, but weird to get it out.