Audience Commentary - Does it change your story?

There are lots of fantastic things about making webcomics. Many nice things it has over traditional printing and publishing.

The speed of publishing and presenting your work to the world, the lack of a barrier to entry so anybody with an internet connection can make and publish comics…

…and if you're lucky enough to get some comments from readers - well, for many of us, that's our highest aspiration as a webcomicker; getting those comments!

Whether it's thoughts on character or plot, a constructive critique, or just an "LoL!", we loves us them comments!

But has reader feedback in your comments ever changed your story in mid-stream?

For me, it happened once. I have to look back and see what the actual comments were, but I was closing in on the end of Act 2, and then was going to resolve the main problem of the story after that. I had a rough idea of how it was going to play out - but the flavor of the comments just suggested to me what people were liking about the story, and I think I also had the sense that people were ready for the resolution to come faster.

…The readers commenting didn't know the end was coming, and they didn't suggest it directly, but the comments were vital in realizing the end of the problem could be really tight, and neat, and happen on the next page or two instead of over the next six. It was a really neat moment!

How about you? Have your commenters slightly…or radically…changed your storyline or the direction of your comic?