(Historical Notes: See, this is what I was complaining about. Ichabod makes these big dramatic “end of the episode” moments out of declaring he’s gonna do something, then IMMEDIATELY starts talking himself out of it, and back again, all due[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: It really caught me off guard how much fun it is to write a character as simultaneously good-hearted and utterly unscrupulous as Eric. In a way, it kind of perfectly sums up the worldview of the Far Out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Gee, I’m sure this stuff about Eric’s wife and kid will IN NO WAY turn out to be plot relevant later on…)
(Historical Notes: I can’t remember if this was the exact page where I finally got specific about this the first time around, but diehard Doctor Who fans will hopefully recognize the basic shape of Vance & Eric’s plot here as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Some context is necessary before I get to the main bit. I don’t normally write out the whole plots for comic arcs in advance, unless I know it’s going to be REALLY complicated. Even then, I don’t script[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Again, I cannot stress enough just how badly this bunch of pages here needed to cut back and forth between Erich & Ichabod’s exposition fest and Vance going off and getting crazier and crazier. It’s not even that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, here’s where the plot starts to get away from be a bit. I know I like to big up The Killer Station of Deadly Doom as some of my best writing, and I generally stand by that,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: That hanger floor got conspicuously clean all of a sudden.)
(Historical Notes: Something’s bugging me about this page, and I’m not sure what it is. Either the wobbly panel layout leaves the top panels too cramped while also making the bottom one too big, or that bottom one needs some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: The challenge of this kind of mystery-solving storyline is that we have to believe the main character is smart enough to solve the mystery… even though the guy WRITING the story absolutely is not.)