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Peril and Hard Decisions

  • Sep. 12th, 2007 at 8:08 PM
Totally Screwed

Alright, so here's the deal. From the start, this comic has been a collaboration between myself and the previously mentioned friend (and housemate, I might add) of mine, Jia.

 

Unfortunately, about a week or so ago, My housemates and I were informed that she was pulling out of our lease, thus depriving us of one friend, $350 worth of rent a month (Which none of us could afford to replace with funds for our own pockets),  and her fifth of the utilities (including the previous month's). Without going into too many details, suffice to say that the situation was handled extremely poorly by all parties involved ( Except perhaps our landlord, who is a fantastic, wonderful man, who has saved all of our asses on this occasion)

 

This has put me in a somewhat sticky situation, in balancing my desire to continue with this project, and my extreme annoyance of her irresponsibility in this matter of living conditions. As of yet, she has not expressed any desire to me to either attempt to continue the comic as before (which may prove difficult, as many of my housemates no longer wish to see her within the walls of our house), or to discontinue her involvement in the project. If necessary, I WILL continue it on my own, in a somewhat altered form, as I will no longer have her unique input on aspects of plot and character. Most of the entire first act of the comic has been plotted out In fairly succinct detail, however the second two acts have not been.

 

Until this has been resolved, unfortunately all comic drawing activities will be on Hiatus. I will continue to post ideas to the blog however, depending on what direction things go from here.

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The Story

  • Jun. 6th, 2007 at 11:06 AM
Braid, yellow
 

Alright, so I didn't always want to be a web comic artist - I certainly read enough of the suckers to know that these guys do a lot of work, some of them even make money off it ( though I don't think that I could get to the fame of Ghalager of Megatokyo ) But, heck that would be nice.

Nope, I never wanted to be one, but everyone kept insisting that web comics and I were destined to be together. Then This happened: 



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" This" was connected to an entire gritty, assassination plot storyline which we had toyed around with. This now had to happen as a comic. The main character had been drawn, and I'd put my name by her feet. She didn't have a face, she didn't have appropriately proportioned clothing , but she had a hat, two guns, a killer personality (Literally) and she had a storyline. Production immediately began with character sketches, of which the number keeps growing.

My struggle with this blog will be how much do I keep secret and how much goes public before we publish the comic on line. Because of the nature of the plot, revealing too much will be dangerous - but to not tease at all is no fun. As it is I'd like to post up bits of the comic process as I get through them.




Comic Status: 10 pages complete.