VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

and so we learn more depressing info?

i feel like there must be some deep insights into my personal life/ideas/problems being exposed here. maybe. like a dream with too many symbols (“unwanted inspiration, from who knows where? keeps happening? This family representing my sense of self/cohesion, which I feel isn’t safe?”). Or maybe I just have literal pregnancy on the mind. maybe there’s nothing much to read into it. eh. Anywho. I have a big “twist” for this family in mind. The idea is that it’d make all this lightweight soap opera drama carry more weight. but. Again, it feels lame to claim this, when the twist reveal is still a ways off. hmm.

For some reason, I feel like “if i can just keep anyone from guessing the twist, and not fuck it up with any contradictory facts before the reveal THEN I WILL BE HAILED AS A GENIUS!” … and yet i keep repeatedly seeing how i’ve failed to make it interesting, due to lack of setup. or lack of provocative suggestion? or something. hmm. so eager to dissect this. hmm. hope I learn something about storytelling in the end, and this isn’t just left a big loose end that no one will discuss with me.

well.
the idea in this strip is: that he’s working again. is interrupted with the news that she’s preggos just like their daughter. he is shocked, she hides her face.
to me, it is clear from her body language that she knows it wasn’t him. but I wonder if people can read it another way. blindspot.
SPOTS!?!?!? i dunno.

anywho.
the idea of this sequence is really to tell a story about the father figure here. which will reflect on others, later. hmmz.
weird to me that I wrote this with other family members having the lines.
originally the dad also spoke, mostly about fixing things. but i thought it would be better if he was just present, and his only line was the big one. the one that comes day after tomorrow. eh. wondering about last minute re-ordering… hmm.
well. guess we’ll see tomorrow.

… to me, the idea is that they all know they aren’t safe or inpenetrable by this point. should probably have some character say this, somehow, in case the audience is reading other stuff into it. I fear the audience is just closing the book by this point, frustrated at the boring obliqueness, and lack of clear insights. hmmf.

BUT SO BE IT! WOO HOO!!!?!?!???
…?
guess we’ll see it through. discuss later. YOU AND I.