The original 12-inch Roommate strips lacked a coherent storyline. It started as just random dom-sub scribbles: big cock fucks little guy. Done. A lot of the time I would just draw the images and then figure out the dialogue later. I did this less and less as the strip went on and I started trying to make it make sense, but those those first hundred strips are a real slog. IMO. So with these new ones, I'm really trying to get real stories so after finishing part one of chapter one last week, I've been going over my script for part two to make sure I'm thinking ahead enough, but also leaving some space for some improvisation. I also pulled out some old comics I have in my reference file to get into the right head space: some Butch Cannon, some Jacob Mott, some vintage Penthouse Comix... any thing I have that's comedy but also NSFW.
Chapter one is essentially a sitcom pilot so it's really more about establishing the tone of the chapters to follow so I'm trying to get this right enough that it'll help me understand how to do chapter two.