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| How
often do you update?
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Well,
in a perfect world, I would update three times a week.
I used to update three times a week. But now I have trouble
with keeping
up with twice a week. And that goes out the window whenever
I find myself writing ridiculous
novels. So, in theory, I
post Monday,
Wednesday and Friday- in practice I post Monday and Wednesday
(night) and sometimes that's Thursday (night). Or just
on Mondays. And during the novel writing
months of April and November,
I post twice a week (or less). Count Zaar updates in theory once a month... or, in
practice, never.
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| I
am a new reader and - how the hell do you read this thing? |
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Okay.
First, take a deep breath. Then go find yourself a comic that
makes some damn sense! Actually, I have been talking to someone
recently about just this. His
advice was to take a storyline or two
(I would recommend reunion, other
people's sins or anna bloom
wakes up, all of which are fairly self-contained - and reunion is
even
finished!) and follow those using the "next episode" buttons
(although you'll end up only reading the first page of the
episodes if you don't use the "next" button, too.).
Then go back to the very beginning and see how the whole
thing fits together. Or doesn't, quite, fit together yet. |
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| I'm
not really sure what to say. I mean, I didn't figure out what I was
doing with the comic until seventy-five comics into the thing. The
main storyline (*cough* most complicated *cough*) is armageddon
girl. The other storylines fill in backstory, or just wander
around aimlessly, or are completely unrelated. I switch storylines
when I'm not sure where to go next, or when I'm just tired of drawing
a particular person over and over, or when I have a brilliant idea... |
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| Seriously,
though - what the hell is going on? |
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| It's...
complicated. And I'm not interested in spelling it out explicitly.
I don't want to waste panels on recaps when I have a ton of material
that I haven't even touched yet. There are hints throughout the comic
- and more hints if you look around in the extras. |
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| I'm
not even sure I always know what's going on. Sometimes I think I
know what it's about and sometimes it gets beyond me. |
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| Who
is the main character? |
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| You
have to ask the tough questions, don't you? I'm... not sure.
Medea's my favorite, but she's not particularly central to
the action. I would instinctively say that right now it could
be C.C. Ellsworth or Emma
Starkadder... maybe Julian Delmar, too- but my answer
could
be completely different next year. |
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| So,
is adding another character your answer to everything? |
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| Um,
yes? I know! It's terrible. But this thing is going to be so
big. |
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| Why
does everyone in your comic smoke? |
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| Not
everyone... but, yeah- the answer to your question is here. |
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| Why
is your comic full of amoral creeps? |
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| Okay,
yeah, the thing is... I'm not really sure what the thing is.
Maybe I'm cynical. Maybe I'm a depressive with a broken heart. Maybe
I
just think villains are more interesting than heroes. Maybe
I just have a lot of bad dreams. Maybe I just have too much time
on my hands.
Maybe I'm just an awful misanthrope myself. Maybe I'm just
setting them up for a fall. Or maybe I just like writing about far-sighted
villains and morally compromised heroes. Maybe all of these
things
are true. Maybe not. |
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| Are
all the characters somehow related, if somehow I understood the intersecting
plot threads? |
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| Everything
(and this includes those damn novels I'm
always working on) takes place in or around the same City,
but the events happen to different people. And yet... (for
example) Bobby
Tsarkov's dead brother and Ellen's
missing boyfriend... it's the
same guy. Trace Flood, who is so useful in Anna
Bloom and who dies
during armageddon girl,
has backstory that will be a large part of
tin heart. Eventually. The
parents John
Rask doesn't know he has
have both made appearances in different storylines. |
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| So
yes. And no. Some of these things I mean to someday spell out and
tie together, some of them
I don't. |
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| I
don't understand the numbers that sometimes appear on panels. Explain. |
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| Okay.
The numbers are my vague attempt at a chronology. For example,
Anna Bloom is wandering around in
'42 but during a murder of men (which
takes place in '44), there are hints that she's gone. |
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| Basically,
it's just another way to try and organize the material. |
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| What's
with the guy with the claw for a hand? |
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| I
am not going to answer any questions about Count
Zaar. Part
of the point, if there is one, is that it is inexplicable.
The illustrations for the craziest novel ever not written. |
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| Why
isn't so-and-so on the cast page? |
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| Yes,
about that... I know- it always needs to be updated. I know there's
a lot of stuff in the extras that could be updated. But unless someone
kicks me occasionally, I'm not going to do it-- I can't look at this
rationally - I'm too busy working on next week's post to think about
what could be updated. So, email me, please; (the email address is
at the bottom of every page) and let me know what links don't work,
who you want to see on the cast page, what monsters I've forgotten,
explanations you want, whatever. I may not get to it promptly, or
at all, but I will try to give the matter some consideration. |
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| *
if by "frequently" you mean something I was asked once
in passing |
