Quote: However, instead, you took an enormous amount of room in the main story itself to progress a personal plotline between a secondary supporting character, and a new character you decided to not even bring into the main fold. It broke up the pacing of the main story, and served to enhance nothing in the group dynamics.
Oh, I'm fully aware of this and criticized myself in the talk thread with the same reasons you just said. In retrospect, I should have put the whole Axel/Agent X thing in another thread, but by the time I'd realized that Axel couldn't join the team until he was ready (which will take a while), the thing was pretty much set up and had to follow through, for good or ill. As I said, issue #14 broke all the rules. Circumstances also happened so that I was offline for about a week and a half and all I could do in the meantime was conclude the Agent X thing that I'd set up in the Mandelovia part of the story. It may have not been the right thing to do -- and I wouldn't do it that way in the future -- but it's done. No going back now. And hey, I had Axel interact with pretty much everyone left behind on La Perdita, so I threw in as much group dynamic as was possible without actually tossing Axel right into Antarctica with the team. Oh well. At least Mxy liked it.
