Sorry it’s a few hours late folks. Oppressive heat has kicked in here and it’s made me a little bit zombified. Hey if you’re not doing anything head over to Monstar and show Jacen some love. He’s not only a great bloke who said some lovely things about me on the weekend his strip is bloody hilarious!
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This dismays me. apparently Seth Grahame-Smith has written a follow up to his Pride & Prejudice & Zombies that paints honest Abe as a axe wielding vampire killer. For some reason this makes me cringe.
I think what excited me about P&P&Z was the idea a new narrative was weaved into the existing one creating a whole new storyline. It’s why I think Wicked is such a great story. While Dorothy is going about dropping houses on people and scalding a lion for roaring there was a whole other drama. It’s also why people were excited about the Star Wars prequels (although the execution of that was just woeful).
This latest volume though feels like the work of a 7 year old, or the guy who wrote “From Dusk to Dawn”. Random ideas thrown together. Zombie Hawks, Unicorn Transformers, Dawrf Spacemen. All amusing momentarily but damned if I’d want to sit through 90 minutes of it. What the film does promise is stunning visuals if Burton is involved but I’ll pass thanks.
-Trev
Hey folks, I recently did an article for Webcomics.com about how I do cell style shading. It’s just gone online. Now webcomics.com IS a subscriber based site bit it’s also a fantastic tool for people interested in webcomics and comics in general and at only $30 a year (what some sites charge per month) it’s well worth the expense. I don’t get anything for promoting it, it’s just something that I think is worth it. At some point I might put it on this site but for the moment it’s only available over there.
-Trev
Hey folks. Just wanted to let you know that it’s been confirmed we’ll be at Melbourne Supanova. We’ll be sharing a booth with Guardian Comics Paul Spencer who does the great Ticket To Ride webcomic about a group of guys who run a superhero themed adventure park. We should have books 1 & 2 as well as issue one of the current arc which due to it’s mammoth size we’ll be breaking into shorter comic book style publications.
I also plan on heading up to both Brisbane and Sydney’s Supanova this year (for the very least to meet Joe Kubert!) but i’ll give you more details as we get closer.
Huzzah
-Trev
November 16th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Great art visual and imagination, but the storyplots and jokes need work.
The art and imagination wins, the storyplots and jokes lose.
Your characters step on the stage, but have no idea what to do next.
This cannot hold an audience, if they have nothing to read.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Thanks for the feedback Luisa, I hope the next few pages change your mind on our little story, it’s really starting to come all together. Think of this chapter as act one of a film. you can’t get into the action until all the players have been introduced. I popped over to check out some of your stuff. It’s nice, there’s definitely a feel of old comics about it, the visual thematics as well as the storytelling seems torn straight from a 1930s funny page.
-Trev, aritst
Hi Luisa, thanks for having a look around! How interesting that you’d prefer us to ramp up the jokes – we spent the first hundred and something strips doing gag-a-day. It’s not the style I prefer to write, so the current Sawbones story is adventure focused and not so much with the jokes. I’m cultivating a light feel to proceedings but not, as you so rightly note, relying so much on punchlines. Glad you appreciate Trev’s art, too, I know I do!
– Jen