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Well, I actually want to mention a couple of things here. Originally the above comic was drawn after the “Part 3″ page, intended to introduce Aerith before part three actually started. Supposedly a stand-alone, I’m now going to go on a tangent to try and develope the two mech characters a little bit before moving on. Like I’ve developed D-san and J-san enough, if any. Did I mention it’s not funny? It’s really quite bad. I’m really not terribly happy with the drawings either. Did I mention that?
But see, like the thing is, I feel like someone can kinda get a feel for how J and D’s minds work from the previous NWars episodes (Or I think I can, and therefore, I think others can, though this may be TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY faulty logic), while I do not think anyone can get a feel for Chikara’s and certainly not Aerith’s “personality”. I use these words tentatively, as, relative to like a novel, my characters are really not terribly developed, and it may just be me who thinks that they are.
That JUST reminded me that I haven’t ranted about Aerith and Chikara’s character histories. And I also realized I have ANOTHER rant topic to write about that I just thought of now. Man, I should seriously keep a journal instead of writing these. Just wait until I write my memoirs. It’ll be crazy.
Anyways, Justin now touches on 100 updates and number of comics drawn. This was going to be my main rant, but I’ve apparently already used some of the space. So if you look at the of almost all of my comics, there’s a little bar: there’s a number (For NWars, I think they’re all between 200 and 400 as of now), the title of the comic, and the date that it was compiled on the computer. On my originals, I have the date that it was actually drawn, but whatever.
So this numbering system. I have not actually drawn 400 comics between now and July of 1998, but it’s close. (That’s an average of less than one comic per week, BTW; it’s like half a comic every week). When I did the first episode of “The Adventures of BKS” (Don’t have a scan right now, but may have one later), it was labelled “Episode 1, Edition 1″. Wtf does “Edition” mean in this sense? I don’t know. Either way, I labelled these comics, starting from 1, in chronological order all the way up to 200 odd. 200 itself was done in July of 2003 (That, BTW, is an average of about 200/(52×5) comics per week).
When I drew “Starcrossed”, I labelled it starting from 300. Instead of a chronological numbering system, the numbering system became more of a mental serial number for me. Of course I can’t read off the top of my head what #124 was, or even what #380 was, but I can tell you that #124 was drawn sometime between 99 and 01, and that #380 is an early page in the Directorate storyline.
But that’s besides the point. Or is it? I really don’t know. I counted that I’ve done about 70 NWars strips, but I’ve actually DRAWN about 120-140 strips between now and the start of the NWars project. I don’t know what the correlation between this and J’s statement is anymore, and my thoughts aren’t quite coherent anymore, apparently. So I’ll stop.
