2/ I've been working on that comic around work and other projects for 4 years. I care about the characters and their arcs in the story.
But every project I work on is ultimately me being a hedge witch of the art world - I'm trying to teach myself as I work on something fun. And in doing so, I stumbled over some learning curves and blocks. Comics involve -s o m u c h- and I hit a lot of notes that I wanted to.
That said, there are warts in my comic. The story, the art, everything could be done better, and it's hard to develop the skills to pull it off while working on other stuff. So, shelve that for now while I go into a bit of imposter syndrome.