For some projects I finish them and sit on them for a few weeks or months. Then I revisit them, make a few minor tweaks and then release them. Sometimes you hate something and after a few weeks you look it over and say “this is amazing.”
I started removing Heathcliff near the start of last year after realizing he rarely contributed to the “joke.” There are very different edits of Heathcliff out there. I didn’t know about them until after I started mine and found a whole community of crazy.
The eye seemed to directional towards Heathcliff so I edited it. I looked for other examples of his eyes and based the new one off that. I wasn’t even sure anyone would notice that.
I wasn’t going to fix the half shaved look. I needed to preserve that NAPGism.
Didn’t even notice the floating. But you are correct.
When I went to remove Heathcliff I instinctively checked to see if I needed to correct him floating out of the window like a cardboard cutout overlapping with the frame because that always happens in Heathcliff comics. All that even though I knew I was going to remove him and it didn’t matter.
So was polio, measles and American citizens supporting Russian politicians. Once you think something is history you are dealing with a whole population that is naive to it and the process starts all over again. The only thing we have successfully consigned to history is small pox.