ReBoot

For all of you who have been following the ReBoot Revival project (http://www.ReBoot.com), there have been a few weeks of questioning the quality of the content being produced.

As a fellow fan who has been following the comic since book 1, I have as well noticed a change in the way the comic has been directed. It has taken a direction that we are not familiar with in the ReBoot universe. And recently, there have been so many changes from scene to scene, it feels a bit crammed together.

Maybe it's in my opinion, but I feel we are rushing the team too much. With high fan demands, and little word on the progress on Rainmaker's side, we turn to the Revival team and have expectations to "wow" us until Rainmaker makes an announcement.

With the past few weeks, I truly believe we should give the Revival team, at the very least, a holiday break to come up with some material, and spend a little longer on the pages. Please feel free to argue against my point, but I'd rather take quality over speedy releases (Need I start the ReBoot Season IV debate?).

All work takes a decent amount of time to produce a good project. Reading the reviews and comments of other users at http://www.rbcorner.com/cgi-bin/eblah/Blah.pl (To my knowledge, the most active ReBoot forum on the Net), many users agree that the comic is feeling a bit random, almost as if they're producing anything to output the promised 2 pages per week. If this rushing continues, people will lose faith in the web comic, and possibly give Rainmaker an idea that the fans won't appreciate a release as much as they originally thought.

Knowing that Gavin, Ian, and the rest of the crew are currently out of the picture, we need to let Rainmaker know what we'd expect in a release, and what we would not appreciate. We need to realize that the Web Comic is a promotional product, not a definitive plot line that Rainmaker will produce on DVD. It is an experiment, a project to see how many people will catch eye and show an interest in it.

So if you intend on helping the ReBoot Revival, read the comic. Post constructive criticism. Do not tell any of the team you've lost confidence. And finally, if you have the time, please fill out the surveys on the site. Rainmaker will definitely be interested in user input on these. Rainmaker treats these surveys as true user input. You have a say in how to improve both the comic and the future of ReBoot.

But most important, thank the Revival team for doing all this work free of charge. Talented artists are giving up time to draw and write the biggest fanfic currently active. They are showing the world that ReBoot has an amazingly large fanbase globally. Without this comic, the revival would be nothing more than an online petition.

But now, we have contact with Rainmaker. We have them listening. They have decided to produce the new films purely on support for the whole concept.

So I will open up the wall to commentary. Let us commend the team, and Rainmaker, for bringing our hopes true. I will gather your responses and send a mass e-mail to Rainmaker and Z2H and the Revival.

Stay Frosty!

-XBrav