Bump.
So I tried the whole "I like people and I'm ready to do requests" bit. After maybe 12 requests in three weeks, I retired again. So hi, I'm in the club now. I might be dumb enough to come ot of retirement again, but not for a while.
...and I have similar problems to Lance. They like it when I show up in the "rate the comic-related signature above you" thread in my forum, because I'm more experienced than most of them. I'll criticize to try and help them to improve, but they usually take it the wrong way, and I end up getting people asking for requests from it too. Kind of a Catch-22...."Here's where yours isn't good, but no, I won't make you a better one" lol