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[wakes up] aw fuck time to blast vocaloid ridiculously loud so i can feel something again

gentle psa to new comic artists about a problem i also suffered from: slow quiet pacing is totally fine BUT if that's not what you're deliberately going for, you CAN fit more Story Progression on the page. no, more than that. more than that even. i promise if you don't want it to a single action doesn't need to take a whole page to illustrate each of its steps, a lot of connecting magic happens in the gutters i /promise/ if you draw someone pulling up in a car then skip to them walking in the door with groceries we will Understand that they unloaded the car and unlocked the house you feel me

shinesurge

#I am not a comic artist#but I had a similar problem when I was in film school#I call it “the door problem”#in my thesis film I had written that two characters walk out the back of the club into the alley behind the club#and my club location did not have a back alley but did have a side room that we used as the door#but that door opened in#and the location I used for the alley had a back door but that door opened outwards#and I knew it looked weird#I struggled framing the shots#and blocking the actors#and I got really really caught in my own head about how to make this door work#because to me it was really important that you saw every step from club to outside#because even though we had learned in school that you could transition it didn't feel right because it didn't feel like a new scene to me#(this being one of the struggles with a short film. It can all feel like one scene if your script is short!)#AND THEN#when we got into the editing room we just...cut the door transition entirely#initially not on purpose#what happened was that we decided to tighten up the timing by cutting non-linearly to the custom music I had commissioned#which made it much more experimental especially in comparison to my fellow classmates#however it showed me that the story still absolutely worked without needing to show how they got into the alley#the audience can infer the door#so now anytime I can feel myself getting stuck on something when I'm filming I think#“Is this a Door Problem?”#as a storyteller it's always a question of what is the absolute bare minimum you need to convey what you're trying to say#and sometimes that means you just need to already be outside the club

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Exactly! Film and comics are VERY similar mediums in this way, I love this. We should always be considering Door Problems

infizero

john being 39 in beyond canon and only just now starting to realize he might be transgender makes me genuinely emotional. like not that 39 is even that old. but with a lot of trans stories focusing on adolescence and young adulthood, it makes me feel soooooooo. augughhhh :((( its never too late there is still time yadda yadda fuck my life

infizero

he's almost 40 and has a whole ex-wife and teenage son and there is still time for her to be a woman. there is always still time

infizero

ESPECIALLY since the "main" part of his story took place DURING that aforementioned period of adolescence. as much as i like the idea of her figuring it out not that long after the end of the game, it feels so impactful to me (regardless of any other candy bullshit) that she didn't. that years and years passed without her figuring it out, as she holed up inside and ghosted through a life that didnt feel like her own. it aligns with her feeling that everything that's happened since then has just been meaningless and far away. and yet there is still hope. there is still time. despite everything despite how long it took she does not have to live like this anymore. she just has to take that first step.