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Jun. 8th, 2024
Un-Iverse Update #7 June 8, 2024
Jun. 8th, 2024 11:58 pmYou may have noticed I've been going on a script tear lately. And maybe it's frustrating you. I get it. Jasper Hansen is a mensch because he never says "Stop telling me what great things are coming and put out some fucking new material!"
Which he would be well within his rights to do. Neil Gaiman famously told fans that George R.R. Martin is not their bitch and he doesn't work on their timetable. Well, it's been 14 years since the last Song Of Ice And Fire book so Gaiman looks like a dumbass.
I don't believe fans have the right to dictate content or what they'd like to see in their stories. But bemoaning LAZINESS? Oh, my yes. That's fair game.
I did the cover and the first two pages of the latest issue (Lace Doilies #10 "Death Time" Un-Iverse #67). I haven't been putting off drawing scripts at all, but I want you to understand I am in a delicate place in the saga right now. I feel I need to write out ALL the scripts to The Terran Wars before I put a single one to paper. That is 19 issues. I have currently scripted six. Including "Death Time", I have SIX issues In The Can before The Terran Wars (including a Special Edition of Gilda And Meek "Enter Tork"). I have to be VERY careful not to draw all six issues out at once because until the Terran Wars scripts are finished, we'd be looking at an indefinite hiatus. The first six scripts have worked out all right but I'm terrified of getting stuck, so I'm heavily going back and forth between drawing and scripting, so if the worst case scenario happens and it take me a year to finish the scripts for all 19 issues, the reader won't have to wait a full year for new material. During the strikes Hollywood treated new content as a rare and valuable commodity, and got through it by releasing it sparingly and not all at once. I have to do the same until the19 scripts are done. I'll be taking the next few days to put things to paper, but every roadblock I burst through in scripting will make the timing easier for the reader.
Please don't be too mad about this. I just don't want to find myself with a year of no new comics coming out. I'm doing what I'm doing so that won't happen.
Which he would be well within his rights to do. Neil Gaiman famously told fans that George R.R. Martin is not their bitch and he doesn't work on their timetable. Well, it's been 14 years since the last Song Of Ice And Fire book so Gaiman looks like a dumbass.
I don't believe fans have the right to dictate content or what they'd like to see in their stories. But bemoaning LAZINESS? Oh, my yes. That's fair game.
I did the cover and the first two pages of the latest issue (Lace Doilies #10 "Death Time" Un-Iverse #67). I haven't been putting off drawing scripts at all, but I want you to understand I am in a delicate place in the saga right now. I feel I need to write out ALL the scripts to The Terran Wars before I put a single one to paper. That is 19 issues. I have currently scripted six. Including "Death Time", I have SIX issues In The Can before The Terran Wars (including a Special Edition of Gilda And Meek "Enter Tork"). I have to be VERY careful not to draw all six issues out at once because until the Terran Wars scripts are finished, we'd be looking at an indefinite hiatus. The first six scripts have worked out all right but I'm terrified of getting stuck, so I'm heavily going back and forth between drawing and scripting, so if the worst case scenario happens and it take me a year to finish the scripts for all 19 issues, the reader won't have to wait a full year for new material. During the strikes Hollywood treated new content as a rare and valuable commodity, and got through it by releasing it sparingly and not all at once. I have to do the same until the19 scripts are done. I'll be taking the next few days to put things to paper, but every roadblock I burst through in scripting will make the timing easier for the reader.
Please don't be too mad about this. I just don't want to find myself with a year of no new comics coming out. I'm doing what I'm doing so that won't happen.