Might be the KJ obsession talking but lowkey thinking what if... I started on their comic story before Black Orbit.
KJ has NO plot relevance to Black Orbit. And the thing I'm thinking about making is after the events in Black Orbit, which would leave a lot of ????questions???? because nobody would have context for why things are as is if I haven't made Black Orbit first.
It is a possible approach, first establishing questions and curiosity and then you get context later and read thru the comic again and get enlightened with the new knowledge and it might hit different with the context of the depth and complexity of the characters from Black Orbit.
Mainly thinking about it bc it's way more straight forward and smaller in scale than Black Orbit bc I only have to relate to like. 4 characters (KJ, Roger, Keith and Cass not mentioning minor characters) compared to Black Orbit with... [checks notes]
probably 20+ characters I need to consider and keep track of their relations to each other, not to mention the workings of their environment LMAO
AND I STILL DONT HAVE EVERYTHING FIGURED OUT YET. I have the skeleton for the plot I know the major events that'll happen and (mostly) how to wrap it up but god. I'm missing a lot of meat still to cake up the skeleton. It's coming together well tho but it's So Much to keep track of you feel?
Just thinking out loud mostly... KJ is just very important to Roger's character and background before the events of Black Orbit and KJ is only really alluded to if Roger is talking with them on the phone or Roger gets caught up on some detail that makes him think about them.
And then also when Cass finds out Roger has been lying to her/not telling the truth about his previous roommate but you didn't hear that from me aha ;p