Alright, so that cut it close, but, despite my claims of
unreliability, I've managed to maintain the update schedule for yet
another week. Sadly there is no art this week, though I am
currently part of two teams over on /r/comicbookcollabs so you can
probably expect to see some stuff from them soon. They ran an event
they're calling the 'blind date,' where you throw you name in the hat
along with the job you want to do, and they put you on a team of random
people with varying skill levels. The goal? To create a short (six to
eight pages) comic where "two starcrossed lovers fight their enemies,
the odds, and something they don't expect." There's something like forty
teams, and from what I've seen, it looks like there'll be quite a bit
of variety in setting and plot. I signed up as a colorist, but got put
on two teams by mistake, so I'm going to be a bit busy. I do however,
have some concept art I sketched for one of them, so I might put up a
couple of those later this week.And after that, we've got the Fortune, which was a short story I wrote
for a prompt in a creative writing class a couple years back – our
requirement was to tell a story backwards, and I'd been wracking my
brain trying to figure out how to do a good reveal from end to beginning when
this sort of came together (I think I tried three or four other
sections before ending up with the four or five included here). I
remember being surprised when people complimented/commented on the moral of
the story, since I hadn't realized I'd written one. Though I can certainly see it now. It's a bit more... bleak than most of the other stuff I write (including, I suppose, the comic where most of humanity is extinct and the remainder besieged by a horrible alien bent on killing and consuming them) but if you're inclined towards literary stuff, it might work for you. It won an award, so that's something. |
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