I don't know why he doesn't simply wrap this comic up by the end of the year and launch Star Power in January.
Exactly. Despite Mookie's desire to make this ending epic, it will be forgotten shortly after completion. And it's not like Mookie is attracting new readers at this point. Mookie has to realize that he is not going to improve character development or have any interesting plot twists, so he should just end it and move on. Seriously, I think he spends most of his time on SP anyway...