At the moment you have a pretty classic good vs evil and your hero is already super charged. This doesn’t give him a lot of room for growth and makes him predictable.

Perhaps he was in cold storage because he is more neutral in his motives? Maybe his powers are blocked because the good guys fear what he might do and he is trying to break free of their control. They need his help, he needs the return of his powers, they seek a particular order he finds stifling, they both face a common enemy and then there are the humans in the middle with unexpected secular technologies alien to the spiritual ones.

I feel your pain on the economic side – your art is top notch, you might see if you can sell more of it here – maybe some fan boy cheesecake

@saddust: Thanks! I wanted to aim for mature. I will be returning to doing ETD at some point after I take care of a couple of personal matters. And she’s too young to get married, dude!

@djsdjs: It’s mostly economic, but also professional issues as well. I’m actually considering rebooting ETD into some other form. Same characters, somewhat altered, storyline somewhat altered, and with a far more mature, seasoned approach. My mind’s changed a lot over the past year and quite unexpectedly.