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I finished an issue tonight (this morning):
Lance Lockjaw: The Way Home: The Terran Wars #3: Chapter Ten "Homecoming" (Un-Iverse #81)
What can I tell the Dreamwidth Faithful?
I am disappointed by the ending, but The Un-Iverse is a novel, and you can't end every novel chapter with a killer cliffhanger or a baller quip. But I really wish I had been able to do that for every issue in The Terran Wars, at least. I was not here.
What else?
I suspect the issue will totally surprise people. For me, this is the logical place for the story to end up, but I think nobody is going to see what happens in it coming.
I estimate about 1/5th of people who read it will be a little disappointed by that aspect. And 4/5ths will REALLY dig the "twist". It's the 4/5ths I'm playing for. I'm actually with them, if only because it's not an actual surprise to me, and the way the story demanded to be told instead.
For people frustrated by my current extended script-phase, lemme give you a timeline or what and when to expect things.
I will be writing three more scripts before I do anything else. Coincidentally, these next three scripts are the three best issues of the entire Un-Iverse. When you read those issues you might understand why I simply refused to let them gather any more dust.
If things go well, these issues will be finished within two weeks.
Then, I spend I imagine about another week going online and studying models and people for reference to the next new issue, UnComix Tales: The Humans: The Epic Series Finale "All Loose Ends...". This is going to be my most research-intensive amount of artwork EVER, and probably my hardest artwork ever too.
Then I start putting it to paper. I have no clue how long it will take. When I get frustrated by the art I often take an extended break so I don't fuck it up. I'm not saying that will definitely happen, but it could, and considering how "hard" the art will be, it's actually likelier than it isn't.
After that is finished, scanned, and put up on BlogSpot, I write 6 more issues. The FINAL issues not just of The Terran Wars, but The Un-Iverse Proper. After 40 years I will be completing the story of my grade-school characters on my own terms.
Then, I do a Special Edition for Gilda And Meek "Enter Tork". It's the one issue I feel needs to be punched up before The Terran Wars. Everything else, good and bad, I'll live with. But the Piranha deserves a better return to the group than I first gave him. Even if it's not MILES better, it has to be SOMETHING, you know?
After that is Hell. I will spend a few weeks reading and rereading BlogSpot and fixing typos and mistakes. Most notably I will be changing Unkie Matty's name to Unkie Natty (for obvious reasons). I've wanted to do that for ages, but doing this whole editing deep dive is the perfect excuse to do it. But that's a LOT of dialogue to redo, rescan, and replace. If I miss an instance let me know.
Then? The Dark Child Saga: The Fall Of F.I.S.H.. The first part should come out in a timely fashion. The last two parts will both have long hiatuses between them. Not just because I predict artwork difficulties, but if both issues aren't well over a hundred pages each I'll be surprised.
Then? The Terran Wars. I will no longer have to pause putting them to paper to write scripts (which you would resent the HELL out of during this specific group of issues) so on some level they WILL be coming out a LITTLE faster. But they will also paradoxically come out a lot SLOWER too because I will be inking and coloring them all. Let's assume I save a month between issue for not having to script anything. Add two months for inking and coloring (a month for each). So again, it makes sense while these issues are going to be so time-consuming, and the wait between cliffhangers so crazy-making, to make sure there is very little else I need to do for The Un-Iverse in between them.
Lance Lockjaw: The Way Home: The Terran Wars #3: Chapter Ten "Homecoming" (Un-Iverse #81)
What can I tell the Dreamwidth Faithful?
I am disappointed by the ending, but The Un-Iverse is a novel, and you can't end every novel chapter with a killer cliffhanger or a baller quip. But I really wish I had been able to do that for every issue in The Terran Wars, at least. I was not here.
What else?
I suspect the issue will totally surprise people. For me, this is the logical place for the story to end up, but I think nobody is going to see what happens in it coming.
I estimate about 1/5th of people who read it will be a little disappointed by that aspect. And 4/5ths will REALLY dig the "twist". It's the 4/5ths I'm playing for. I'm actually with them, if only because it's not an actual surprise to me, and the way the story demanded to be told instead.
For people frustrated by my current extended script-phase, lemme give you a timeline or what and when to expect things.
I will be writing three more scripts before I do anything else. Coincidentally, these next three scripts are the three best issues of the entire Un-Iverse. When you read those issues you might understand why I simply refused to let them gather any more dust.
If things go well, these issues will be finished within two weeks.
Then, I spend I imagine about another week going online and studying models and people for reference to the next new issue, UnComix Tales: The Humans: The Epic Series Finale "All Loose Ends...". This is going to be my most research-intensive amount of artwork EVER, and probably my hardest artwork ever too.
Then I start putting it to paper. I have no clue how long it will take. When I get frustrated by the art I often take an extended break so I don't fuck it up. I'm not saying that will definitely happen, but it could, and considering how "hard" the art will be, it's actually likelier than it isn't.
After that is finished, scanned, and put up on BlogSpot, I write 6 more issues. The FINAL issues not just of The Terran Wars, but The Un-Iverse Proper. After 40 years I will be completing the story of my grade-school characters on my own terms.
Then, I do a Special Edition for Gilda And Meek "Enter Tork". It's the one issue I feel needs to be punched up before The Terran Wars. Everything else, good and bad, I'll live with. But the Piranha deserves a better return to the group than I first gave him. Even if it's not MILES better, it has to be SOMETHING, you know?
After that is Hell. I will spend a few weeks reading and rereading BlogSpot and fixing typos and mistakes. Most notably I will be changing Unkie Matty's name to Unkie Natty (for obvious reasons). I've wanted to do that for ages, but doing this whole editing deep dive is the perfect excuse to do it. But that's a LOT of dialogue to redo, rescan, and replace. If I miss an instance let me know.
Then? The Dark Child Saga: The Fall Of F.I.S.H.. The first part should come out in a timely fashion. The last two parts will both have long hiatuses between them. Not just because I predict artwork difficulties, but if both issues aren't well over a hundred pages each I'll be surprised.
Then? The Terran Wars. I will no longer have to pause putting them to paper to write scripts (which you would resent the HELL out of during this specific group of issues) so on some level they WILL be coming out a LITTLE faster. But they will also paradoxically come out a lot SLOWER too because I will be inking and coloring them all. Let's assume I save a month between issue for not having to script anything. Add two months for inking and coloring (a month for each). So again, it makes sense while these issues are going to be so time-consuming, and the wait between cliffhangers so crazy-making, to make sure there is very little else I need to do for The Un-Iverse in between them.
