Other People's Business

Okay. I’m ready. You’re ready. Let’s do this. I love you.

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Long time coming, sorry about that. Confession: I’m in a poor mood, so it is easy to get me to apologize for anything. The quality, the length, the fact that it exists, etc. Nonetheless, here it is.

Hope you’re all doing well. :) I am okay, life is good aside from OPB-related funk.

Goal: finish next issue before January.

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snakewife:

My comic is now available for you to read. I’ll have more to say on the Kaxxik tumblr later on, but for now, you can go take a look, if you like.

[I’m already working on the next installment; should be ready in the next couple of weeks!]

To read the summary of Issue 10, please head over to the OPB LJ.

If you’d like to read the summary for Issue 9 of OPB (The wrong place at the wrong time), head over to the OPB Livejournal.

Hello, everyone! It’s been awhile since I updated, so let me tell you some things in a helpful numbered format.

1. I am working on the summary for Issue 9, and that’s about half done.

2. You all have left the best, sweetest things in my ask box and I will reply to you guys as soon as I can. I’m sorry I’ve been so lax. Work, you understand. :(

3. Speaking of work, in my off-time, I am still working on Cat Sick, the new series. I will tell you some more about it tomorrow.

I hope you all are doing well!

If you’d like to read the rest of Issue 8 before it’s up on the site for download, you can head over to the OPB LJ, where it is currently waiting for you.

Hello, busybodies,

So, a quick ETA of where we are:

- I just finished summarizing the rest of issue 8. It’ll not be as info-dump-y as future issue summaries, mostly because I’d already started the process of converting it into a proper script before I realized “that will <i>also</i> take me ages.” So hopefully that’ll be posted next week. As mentioned before, it’ll be posted both on the OPB website in downloadable form and on here.

- I definitely won’t finish summarizing the comic by the end of the year. Ah ha ha, how naïve I was.

- The LJ will always have the most up to date status / information about the comic, so drop by if you’re wondering how things are going.

- So what comes after OPB? Two things, actually. I’m working on a new comic, Cat Sick, that should debut at the start of December. I’ll tell you more about it soon, possibly later this week or early next week, so you’ll know why I chose such a ridiculous title. Additionally, I’m working on something that’ll start up some time next year that is ridiculously brightly colored and fluffy; I’ll be working with a friend to ensure that it is, in fact, brightly colored. It’s meant to be the mirror of Cat Sick in more ways than one, and having them running alongside each other feels right.  A “dark day to my bright night,” sort of thing.

I hope you’re doing well! Take care, folks.

Hello, busybodies!

God, how awesome are you guys? Seriously, seriously awesome. That is the answer to a question you thought was rhetorical, but no. There is an answer, and if I could give you a non-awkward hug right this second, I would. Thank you guys for the responses, for the ideas, and for the general support. I’m still trying to catch up on replies, and I’m sorry if I haven’t gotten to you yet.

In the spirit of being a little more open than I have been, I’ll go ahead and admit that I’m going through a pretty big depression and it’s… well, it’s getting harder and harder to cope with things. Feeling isolated doesn’t help. And for a while, having OPB hanging over me didn’t help, either.

What did/does help is having you guys be so wonderfully supportive of me during this time; it’s really lifted a big worry off my back. For the record, I am so sorry that I can’t continue OPB in comic form. I know that it really sucks when you invest your time in something and find out it won’t be going on – like a show you like getting canceled midseason. I am going to do everything I can to give you guys some closure.

In the comments of the last post, a few of you had a really great idea. “Hey,” you said, “isn’t it just going to stress you out more to have to convert the scripts into something readable? Why don’t you just summarize it all, post that, and be done?”

Which, you know, dang. That is a great idea. So that’s what I’ll be doing, I think. I’ll probably post them both here in post form and on the main site in .doc downloadable form, and if you want me to elaborate on a scene, ask away and I can post explanations or bits of dialogue.

I’ll get working on those. Let’s see how long it takes me to finish up the first issue, and fingers crossed, maybe we’ll get these exposition dumps finished up before the year ends. :)

Thank you guys again.

Hallo, busybodies,

First off, thanks to everyone for your kind words. I still have some comments to catch up with, but I’m trying to reply to everyone, and I will get to those sooner rather than later.

So I’ve been thinking about OPB and what to do, and the short story is that I think I can’t go on and am going to have to end it.

Let’s talk about that.

Honestly, I like it, and I hope you like it, too. I think it’s a good story. I just can’t draw 200 more pages of it.

So the story’s complete, which is what I’ve been telling you guys for a while, I think, and I want to give that story to you in some way, shape or form. That way, you can have closure, and I can have the satisfaction of having completed this story.

What I’m wondering about is how to do it. What do I have? I have the equivalent of rough scripts, mostly dialogue as they’re written for me to draw off, which means – well, here, I’ll show you a page from this issue:

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D: We’re just friends.
M: Really?
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D: He’s like my mentor in the world of crazy crap. I’m Harry Potter, and he’s, um, Gandalf.
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M: *unimpressed face* Frodo. You would be Frodo.
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D: …Did Frodo ever want to touch Gandalf’s wiener?
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M *unimpressed*
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D: I’m sorry, that’s an unfair question. Who wouldn’t want to touch Gandalf’s wiener.
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M: Why do you try to ruin the things I love?
D: I note you say tried.
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M: *looks away with a small smile* Yes, yes I did. Elen síla lumenn’ omentielvo. <3

That is kind of hard to read. I’m not going to turn it into a novel, because that’d be a lot of work and not the same thing at all, but I’m thinking of either two things:

1. Keep the scripts as is and post one page at a time along with a really roughly sketched thumbnail page so you can tell what each panel was supposed to look like.
2. Polish them up into actual scripts and post them (either as one page or as a complete document) so you can read through them and have a better idea of what was supposed to be going on where.

So what do you think? Talk to me. Would you prefer one over the other?