We’ll miss you, Gin!
I probably should’ve sucked it up and drawn a couple more buildings and a few more villagers, but I figure the bright colors carry it through.
Last time, I talked about wanting to establish what kind of guy Gin is. What I didn’t say is that I’m establishing him for me just as much as anyone else. I started this comic the way I start any story: villains first. I really ought to just write a series about villains, but in the case of this comic, the desire to do a proper satire of the whole “prophesied boy hero” thing overrode my evil sensibilities. Thus, I created Gin, and proceeded to neglect the poor boy throughout every step of the planning process.
And when it comes down to it, I’ve put more planning into this comic than any creative project I’ve ever done. Though I guess that only means that a) I actually decided what the plot would be in advance and b) I threw together a half-assed outline of the first chapter before I started drawing (said outline has since been completely rewritten into a passable script, and I couldn’t be prouder). Doing little-to-no prep work must be stimulatory to my creative process or I probably would have quit doing it by now, right?
If I’d actually given Gin a personality besides “his life sucks a lot” before I started the comic, it wouldn’t be nearly as much fun as randomly deciding that he likes to climb up onto rooftops and thinks his headband makes him look really cool. Which I guess I never mentioned in the actual comic but he does think that. A lot.
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