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July 10, '08

I keep saying, "Well now I'm really getting into the real story." Well now I really am. Of course it's all one big story arc that I have planned, so I'm just going to keep getting farther and farther in, with the exception of comic relief segments such as approximately the first two sections of chapter three.

I'm encouraged by my newfound ability to find the funny way to present serious events. It really is getting better with practice, as I hoped it would. I never really imagined that humor was something I could get better at, since before about a year and a half ago I was rarely funny on purpose and wouldn't have known how to start trying.

It helps that I'm more relaxed about my schedule now, and I can spend as much time as I want thinking about how the given events could happen in a funny way. But mostly it's the way I've learned to think. I find events that were stated briefly and matter-of-factly in the book have now-obvious hilarious consequences if executed in the right way.

This is not to say that there won't be plenty of pages that take themselves seriously. Some of them have to. I'm not the kind of comic artist who will disrespect any and all subjects just to get a laugh.

I'm not entirely against universal disrespect, if it's done well. I read and enjoy Penny Arcade. But most webcomic artists, myself included, just aren't good enough to pull it off. The offense is greater than the humor, and perhaps some webcomic readers will disagree, but the offense is not humorous in itself.

(I hope my readers will agree.)

Page eigty-two is in progress, and some of the images I'm drawing are kind of creeping me out. That's all I'll say now. It's so tempting to give hints!

I haven't received my test copy of the books, and as you may know Wowio is still down, so there's no real news on the book front. I'm probably going to the anime con in King of Prussia this fall; I forget what it's called. I was quite tempted to register for a table and try to sell some books, but James talked me out of it, since I have never even been to such a con, and my collection (of both material and merchandise) is pretty skimpy. I'm planning on fall 2009.

My sister Mel recently pointed out a drawing I did of Syblai that didn't look like him. I responded something like, "Which pictures do you think do look like him?" Syblai is my number one troublesome character to draw. I've been drawing him as long as I've been drawing Gemini, which is...a lot of years now, like maybe eight. She's stayed relatively the same since the book version, with only a couple of hairstyle changes going into the comic. Syblai...has never looked the same in two pictures. I think I am getting better at drawing him, but it's a slow process. I've never been good at drawing males.

Aiken suffers from some of the same issues as Syb, being male, but the main problem with my drawings of Aiken is that I didn't really put together a design for him before drawing him into the comic, and what I did draw into those first few pages, I drifted away from, because it didn't really work that well. The good news on the Aiken front is that I think I have figured out how to draw him, and am able to draw him consistently.

This is more than I can say for Syb, and Syb, being one of the two main characters, is going to get a lot more screen time overall. I hope I can eventually create a design for him that works.

I'm working on the comic primarily right now, but when I go into another page-updating phase I'll put a couple new things up in the gallery, and I'm going to make a new header that has my name and the update days built in. I'll probably let a couple more things build up too. I like working in phases.

My friend William might be starting a comic sometime soon, and I'm going to help him with his CG account and web design. It'll be fun. I like being able to help people on the CG forums but it's so much easier to explain some things when you're face to face. I'm sure it will help him get started to have someone right down the street who knows most of CG's twists and turns.

I love my hilariously long rant, but now it must come to a close. I'm going to be missing a couple of the rants coming up, since I'll be in St. Thomas, and maybe this will make up for them.