Well this issue took a lot longer than I wanted it to because I didn't realize that virtually every page had something major I'd have to design for it. And all the action sequences and big giant establishing shots that make Paintshop freeze. I gotta either switch imaging software or get a better compy. Maybe both.
Also, and if you read the issue you probably noticed it, this issue had a much more complicated plot than the last one. I think I must have a tumor pressing up against the part of my brain that likes to make ridiculous shit up. I conceived the silliest premise I could and then the sci-fi nerd in me insisted I write a shit ton of background information explaining it. And if I'd wanted to actually include all the crap I wrote for this story it could've been 120 pages, but trying to keep it short I cut it down as much as possible and only managed to get it down to FIFTY-SEVEN PAGES.
Years ago when I started trying to write a long form comic for the first time, I asked some comic-making friends how long comics typically are these days. The answer I got sounded insurmountable: about 44 pages! (I should point out that this was back when my main comic was Torando, a page of which was famously observed to have taken less than three minutes to make, which I famously observed was the whole point.)
Several years later, after spending about two years preparing Joe Bivins: Man Genius and spending months writing the first story (which is now the third story, which you'll start to see next month probably) I threw this story together in the few spare moments I had while making "Feliz Navideath" and this one ended up being by far the most complex thing I've ever written, and that includes my book. Actually if you just look at page count it's only four pages shorter than my book!
So last time right near the end of making the last issue I thought it might be neat to save some higher resolution images of certain panels, some of the backdrops and props and background jokes which might not have been as visible as I'd have liked, and then posted them on the Bloog. (I'm sticking with that spelling until it stops making me laugh.) Well this time I knew I was doing that from the very beginning, so I've been saving images throughout the issue! Here's some things for you to be clicking: (this is where the spoilers live)
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