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Okay, I think we're getting the hang of this sequence at this point. Jeff's got the cinematic action happening, and I'm feeling pretty good about the various things I'm doing with the colour. And I've seen the next bunch of pages, plus Jeff's roughs for the ones following. Fun stuff.
I saw all these over this past weekend when he visited. As much as it was a much overdue social call, it was also so we could begin actual scripting for the next story that takes place immediately following this one. We've got a plot outline, but now it's writing the actual scenes and dialogue. What's interesting is that while the current story is all about doing an Indy pastiche, the next, while it does take inspiration from another sort of story, is far more the kind of story we did back in the small press black and white DFS stories, and goes back into people and events from those early stories. I don't want to give anything away, but it feels like we've taken a vacation and now it's back to work, back to more familiar territory. And then that story leads into the next which will be both familiar and completely different.
Okay, enough cryptic stuff, let's knock around some Yup-Yups!
4 thoughts on “Dressed For Success – page 102”
Patrick
Great stuff so far, guys!
A question, though: how much time passed between the events at the end of the original DFS small press B&W run and the start of the Mississauga Jay story. Am I wrong in thinking it’s only a about a couple weeks or a few months?
Chris
We have not said.
Partially because it’s not been relevant, and partly because we want to keep our options open on that front. It’s more than weeks though.
Very early on, I wrote a couple of things about the stories that never saw the light of day. The one was the original story that was to follow the mini run.
Patrick
It’s interesting reading about what you went through at the end of the nineties, as even though I was sort of there at the time, I was oblivious to larger goings-on. I knew the dream for many small-pressers was to go large scale, and books like “Xeno’s Arrow” even got a few issues out in that format. I was tempted to follow suit with “Horizon Line,” but I was finishing up my degree and real life (job, rent, bills) was staring me down. I stopped cold in early 2000, deciding that if a) I wasn’t prepared to go all in (large scale), and b) the small press beat was turning into a bit of a grind for me, it was time to take a break. I also had other creative ambitions, so it was best choice for me right then. Based on your experience, it seems my decision allowed me to avoid that comic industry collapse. I had no idea.
Chris
Whenever I talk about that time period, I find myself slipping into Alec Guiness. “Beffore the dahk tymes, beffore thee Hempyre.”
It was also a time of transition in our own lives as well. But yeah, the chances we could have really made a long term go of it were really slim. And then where would we have been? At the time it was disheartening, seeing the dream you had crushed and being powerless to change the situation. But from today’s perspective, it’s maybe a good thing. Now we are able to reach so many new readers, from so vast an area. And hey kids, colour!
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