God, this was the most difficult section of comic I’ve ever had to do. Hell, and I thought the section where Shoreham was killed was a bitch 🙁
The main problem is that I kept on trying to force the story to go in a certain way. Me, and other people seemed to expect some kind of big gun battle with explosions and all of that kind of thing, and I kept on thinking that I had to deliver it. The big problem was, that things didn’t go that way.
When I do these strips, I’m seeing them in my head as things come together. I’m basically matching each frame of comic to a still of what’s going on in my head in that world. And what I kept trying to do, wasn’t what I was seeing in my head. So I ended up with a good number of comics that were discarded; and others that were right, but needed to be reshuffled (and were actually done out of order while I sorted everything out).
The big moral is of course to never force a story. Every time I do, I get my ass in trouble. Especially when you know what’s coming at the end of a section, and the only way to do it right is to do something you really don’t want to do.
As a little gift to you all, there is an image gallery here that consists of three of the comics that were thrown out…kind of a taste of what almost was, before I came to my senses 😉 Hopefully it’ll let you forgive me for what’s coming.
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Oh, and the graphs in the thrown out comics are quite nice, btw. I rather like the lighting around the ‘fireworks’. 🙂
Glad you like it. I’m also glad you liked the thrown out comics. The lighting was an absolute chore to get right .
All of your main characters are super rational, why I like the story. There are no angsty teens or anxiety-driven neurotics in charge. Therefore, you are held to a level of rationality that a lot of action-adventure stories are not, by your own characters 😉
Rational characters avoid random violence and unneccessary closing of options.
That was the problem. I had seven comics of fight put together, and realized that it did not fit AT ALL.