Comic for Friday 12/16 (Early High Res)
Added 2022-12-16 01:56:43 +0000 UTC
Comments
I think the bigger part of it was the Pain part.
Stephen Shook
2022-12-16 13:55:41 +0000 UTCEthan, who do you think are the most important people Scott wants & needs to protect? His family. You and Lucas. Your "assessment" could be wrong and then his family are dead - again. That's a trauma that would destroy Scott.
Todd Beaubien
2022-12-16 03:46:46 +0000 UTCI can definitely feel that pressure sometimes, especially in today's TikTok world full of 5-second attention spans. But there are some moments that just need what they need, and to rush them means they feel incomplete or inauthentic. I try to kill my darlings as much as possible- in this storyline alone there have been a dozen lines or trains of thought I desperately wanted to use, but I couldn't find a way to make them work without derailing things. These two characters need to get from point A to point B, and there's an optimal path for that to take that I try to find that still feels natural to me. That feels like two people having this discussion. So I've folded under that pressure to "hurry up" in the past, and I always regretted it. And the most important thing I try to remember doing this, the perspective I have that perhaps the casual reader might not think about as much, is that even the longest arc I've ever done, now only takes someone five minutes to read. These things are new and in-progress for one, short moment in time, and then they are forever in the archives. So while I like to keep people interested in the day-to-day, my bigger focus has to be on telling the whole thing in a way I'm happy with.
Tim Buckley
2022-12-16 02:50:13 +0000 UTCI've never been any type of content creator, let alone comics specifically, but I'm curious (considering how long I followed your work) if early on it was a lot harder to let things develop slowly and really hone in on these types of quiet moments/struggles and let them develop as they needed to verse feeling like you need to hurry things along in order to move along the plot in a space of one comic? Does that seem to ring true in your experience or would you characterize it differently?
Stacy Litwin
2022-12-16 02:23:52 +0000 UTC
