VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

Weee!
set up yet ANOTHER wordpress blog earlier today, purely so I could start organizing all the various ideas and napkin doodles i’ve accumulated over the years. much frustration with GoDaddy in this process (they kept cutting off my connection while I uploading the unzipped wordpress files. So i setup my program to automatically reconnect, and check for file time and size differences. but for some reason it still seemed to randomly write certain key files as having 0 bytes. so javascript stuff wouldn’t run. epic fail. ended up going through EVERY directory to copy over any 0 byte file individually. hundreds of files. ugh. took 3 hours to finally get it working. this legendary 5 minutes process. SIGH.)

anywho. it’s setup. so as soon as I figure out how to make it a bit more private, i’ll have another project to work on! weee!

meh. anywho.
rambling.

today’s strip… is still kind of in no-man’s land. I’m 100% convinced that any day now – i’m going plant my ass and nail down detailed scripts for all the remaining strips. but tonight, like the last 4 or so nights, I’ve just riffed off the existing sub-par script material.
For instance, this one said simply “It’s so good to see you again dad. We didn’t think hanging you on the door would work. but it looks (sic) dreams are still worth following.”
I guess the idea was that it would be a continuation of the previous strip. whole family sitting around. but. tomorrow’s strip has dad and mom hovering over a sleeping Veronica and her very pregnant belly. sooo. seems like strange/abrupt pacing. So i tweaked it to be more of a mom and dad alone-time moment.

And i fretted over the line in that middle frame for some time. I want to say hours, but really this whole strip took about half an hour. That line wasted the most time, that’s for sure. thinking about calling them “Stranger Invaders.” And should he imply that he talked them into returning him. or that they valued his brain. or that they valued the family unit. Or that she followed her dream, which told her to hang his body on the door. that was the original idea, but seems way morbid now. Plus I tweaked his hanging scene to have subtle bits of knockout gas, so it would be squeezing time to imply the gang stopped grieving and ran him over to hang him on the door before they were all knocked unconscious.

Meh. I figured the point was that he had been taken somehow. Some time had passed. His head had been preserved in this jar. and then he’d been returned.

In my mind, the gap that we’re covering between strip 1000 and strip 0099 is about 3 to 6 months.

… I also had this idea that the mom should be pregnant. she kind of suggested she was pregnant a while back. ehhh. I should double check and see how much I suggested that. Maybe Veronica should already have given birth by now? ehhhh. hmm. continuity is hard.

btw, I’ve been meaning to mention
http://kafkaskoffee.com/TombComic/

this is something people “do” right? they mention other artists whom they respect? yessss.
I looked through the whole thing a couple weeks ago. Wasn’t EXACCCTTTTLY what I’d do. feels more like dream logic, and maybe too strict with the lack of words. Reminds me of Jim Woodring, but without the edge. (which is to say, without the pervasive sense that the creator has done some serious drugs).
but it does show how much can be done without using words to explain anything.

I think it makes me a more patient reader as well, to try to figure it out. Anyway….
300 thumbs up!