Hi, guys.
Been while, hasn’t it? Like a lot of people, we went through some changes and weird things during the global shitshow. Richard and I are slowly getting back into making comics again. Actually, Richard managed to get the first issue/half of his swamp-noir punch, THE OLD CHURCH back in 2022. We got a few physical copies of it into people’s hand at that year’s Heroes Con, and had the intent of going to this year’s show but too many things conspired against us. It’s going to be uploaded to the Print and Digital pages of this site soon for anyone to buy soon.
Regardless, we’re pushing forward. I’ve recently begun renting a small space to break the gravity of the bad and lazy habits I developed during the plague. I’ve been here for about a month and I’m getting about spending more time here after work. It’s been tough getting back into the rhythm of working on stuff. I’m in the middle of putting together the first - or zero? - draft for the new first issue of OEW. We’ll keep the name of it short and sweet for the time being. Not that anyone’s going to see and/or read this, but paranoid is as paranoid does.
In fact, I plan to blab here a little bit - mostly to myself - to hopefully dislodge some of this ennui and frustration with the script.
I used to really enjoy the writing process and subsequent rewrites as pages came together, but OEW started off a little differently from other things I’ve put together. Richard dared me to come up with it on the fly as we were looking to serialize our individual stories in IN MEDIA REX, but that wasn’t working out well for me.
I’ve got to have a lot of the story worked out. The safety net at the bottom of the tightrope needs to be taut. I have confidence in what I’m putting down. And, while, the entirety of the story has been plotted out, that anchor is still missing. Man, those are some mixed metaphors, huh?
Anyway, I’m stretching through this draft. Really trying to find the groove in it. There are still elements of it that don’t feel as crucial to the plot as I’d like them to be. Maybe I’m not at the point of killing my darlings, but that seems like that might be getting close. Currently, I’m just dropping the panel descriptions in with very brief notes on the dialogue. That’s going to be a struggle too, but a lot of that can get refined as I get into drawing pages.
These entries are going to be more of an excuse to get the juices flowing and talk about things that ordinarily bore the shit out of most people.