I did my first real, multiple panels a page, multiple pages comic, TERAFORM 8 year ago now. I re-read it this morning for the first time in years, after seeing in my website logs a couple of visitors had read it recently.
I could only get to work on it a few hours on weekends and it took months to finish using the traditional drawing, inking and coloring each frame. My goal when just half way through was JUST to finish it.
It looks rushed, which is understandable, but I do like the take on Climate Change, AI, the Media and Corporations I have in it. My love of THUNDERBIRDS, a secret organization doing good must had something to do with the approach too. Maybe it is more like a film pitch/treatment as a comic that just hits the main points, where in a longer/better comic those points would be revealed much more slowly rather than the characters just explaining it all. I was trying to be subtle, with the intentional misdirection with the early images of Mars. Implies Terraforming Mars, but that isn't what it is actually about.
It is what it is.
If I had spent longer on it, the art would have been better, and with more panels of world building. Even characters drawn better. Doing it in all color added many hours and I would have been better off just doing it with line and gray tone and make it more manga like.
I have never received any comment on it in 8 years. None at all.
Rewatching the DEVO documentary again, I feel they too were rather too subtle for the public to understand their thesis that America was obviously de-evolving. Seems all to true now.
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