It’s been a while since my last blog post, I didn’t realise how much time had passed. I have been working on the comic but funnily enough it was not the next scene but a potential future scene, or at least that’s how it started. I began exploring new ideas, new story lines and a way to simplify the story down to the basic parts I want to work with. At the moment, I feel the current ‘Teague Fagan’ storyline is growing too big. I’m sure I spoke about this before and I honestly didn’t mind where it was going – however I think that’s part of what has put me off creating new pages, I felt I was creating more connecting and transitioning scenes to set the plot up more than actually drawing something that sparked the creative juices.
So just for fun I opened up an AI chatbot and played around with ideas without the burden of keeping certain things in mind and it introduced a different way of telling Teague’s story that I’m leaning towards. Does this mean I’m giving up on the current comic? Possibly but I cannot say for sure yet. There are a lot of problems with the current comic that I’m struggling with purely because of certain characters and design choices that came from an earlier time when I didn’t think those kind of things through properly. For continuity purposes I was working with what I had to make it make sense. Starting afresh helped me solidify what was and was not working and made me think that maybe, just maybe, it needs to start again.
I haven’t really made that choice yet because there are a lot of things about the current comic that I do love – it’s the story I’ve committed the longest too (89 pages, wow!) and as such is a bit nostalgic. But for me, that’s not a good enough reason to stick with something when it has evolved so much since I started. For now please see what I have so far below 🙂
