37 – Experiment 1 || Directorate

[J][041230]

Don’t email me to tell me that there’s a plot discrepancy, because I’m going to deal with it. Soon. I hope.

[D][041230]

The comic is delayed. It is unfortunate. I did a reformat on the comp and forgot to save the text, so even though I have truckloads of drawings done ahead of time, I can’t do anything about the comic itself. Wow, what competent planning.

So to kick off the New Year, and to give you some reading material whilst I wait for J to check his Email, get pissed, and then Email (Or not email) me the Wild Words font, I’ll briefly go over the not so complicated history of NWars.

You know, the concept is only about 6 months old. And I’m already messing with the original idea. Way back while I was still doing Starcrossed in March or April, J-san was doing his original manga series, CRN (Crummy Radio News) he tried to do a storyline about one radio station duking it out with another radio station. Random enough. Then he got to the point where we couldn’t take that storyline anywhere (Sheesh, it was only like 7 pages), and dumped it. Go J.

I’m not quite sure if this is what prompted him to come up with the NWars concept, but a couple days (Or weeks, I don’t remember how long between events) later he came up with a doodling of the original NWars logo, and some random doodles. The point, he said, of NWars, was to not have to do a storyline, and to make more random, funnier comics (Now you can see how I am deviating from this concept). Thus NWars was born. I don’t have the original logo or any of the doodles, but here’s an early NWars which hasn’t been posted yet [100522: Dead link]. And of course, I was busy with Starcrossed and all, but what the heck, I did a single NWars during those months. As you can see, D-san doesn’t look like D-san, and J-san doesn’t look like J-san.

That was the beginning.

Then there was that webcomic issue. Not sure who came up with this one, but the idea stuck. So of course, I drafted a site (That was the original version, with it’s billions and billions of little pictures). The first draft of NWars, if anyone bothered to see it. (Beware of my cussing whilst I was talking to myself. It was late, and I was tired).

Then came the concept drawings. OH BOY! Wow has there been a style change. The style at the time was that of Reflection, an awkward 5 head high figure with EXTREMELY pointy chins, cheeks, and narrow eyes. Man, was it terrible. So of course, going into NWars, I figure I better change that.

The absolute first drafts of D-san.

The absolute first drafts of J-san.

The absolute first draft of Mad Scientist J-san.

And, a bit later, the first drafts of CHOBIT 1, who still doesn’t have a name… I’m still thinking ‘Chikara’.

[100522: Four dead links]

And the viewers know what happened from then. We got the site running on Sept 1st, though there was that filler for so many weeks before. It went from 0 viewers a day to about 30 viewers per day now, and some big 166 record somewhere in there. This stupid site has been changed three times now, and I’m fed up with the four panel format, but whatever. It’s getting along.