Here’s to opening with a bang! Let me share something with you: “Grab your reader with an opening! Right? Have a man walk in with a gun, set the bomb ticking, the lovers begin to undress? Oh, how many stories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And this was the last time that anyone took a straightforward surface reading of just one comic and used it to form an un-nuanced view of the work as a whole.
See, I named it “Concurrence” because they’re in agreement but they’re also talking at the same time! We have fun. Oh, 17-year-old David and your five dollar words. So — bombshell — Jack lets slip that he’s in love with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know what you’re thinking. “One perfect man? God already made one perfect man and his name is Nicolas Cage.” But don’t worry. ‘Perfect man’ here just means ‘perfect for Amy’, which Jack is to the same extent that he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Was it worth embarking on a story arc in which one character believes something weird and implausible and off-putting about another character just to facilitate this one joke? Yes, yes it was. I regret nothing.
So a scar-faced whiskey-drinker walks into a bar and the bartender says “Why the long scar?” Wait. That’s not right. There’s nothing more daunting than starting a new project and this webcomic was no exception. So when I was writing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
