Pokemon Park
I’m going to use this comic to tell you a bit about our scriptwriting. Nearly a year ago I had an idea for a Red Dead Redemption script about how hilariously aggressive the bears are in the game. If you’ve played it you know that once you enter the the “Tall Trees” you are in bearland. Bearland isn’t cuddly like you’d think. You seldom see a bear standing still here unless you are very far away. Bears only run, kill, and roar as they attack. Like a bear ninja army. “Approach unseen. Run swiftly. Attack in numbers. Roar only as you strike. Make man fear the bears.”
There’s a lot of material here. I laughed as I wrote out my original draft for the comic, but I was laughing at the ideas, not they way they were presented. When I showed it to automaton he didn’t get it. We reworked it a few times and then filed it away as a failure. The idea might be funny, but making it work isn’t guaranteed. Some of our comic drafts have had more than 20 revisions. I wonder how other comic authors handle this process. Or how some creators write and draw the comic too. There’s probably a unity of vision there, but where’s that second voice and sense of humour? Looking back on that draft now it is clear it didn’t work, but at the time if it had just been me we would have done that original draft from a year ago. It is nowhere near as good as this comic.
Also, you might notice this isn’t comic isn’t about Red Dead Redemption or bears anymore. “It was too much,” I guess. That is why automoton and I are not painters.
I watched a movie with Sam Neill just last week! By “with”, I mean he sat behind me, lol
Clever. :)
Great cross-reference! Pokemon meets Jurassic Park. LOL.
My friend and I were making a webcomic for a while. We actually only made revisions to the script, but rarely ever changed the art work. Since ours was based on real life and the oddities we ran into on a seemingly daily basis, we didn’t have to try and cross reference our jokes with too much in a visual sense. So it was pretty easy and we were pretty good at nailing what we thought was funny pretty much on the first or second try.
I like this one though. Butterfree is a beast.
Oh. And if you wanted to see it, here’s a single frame. We need to get back on it and get our website up. I miss working on this thing.
http://drakkle.deviantart.com/art/Murmaider-136074110
Wow, that’s based on real life? Your comic must be full of very interesting stuff.
Haha, in a sense. A lot of dream sequences and things we talk about that we wish we could do end up in the comic. But that particular strip was about a conversation we had once where I said I’m not one of those people who will wait for the boat that sailed – I’d chase it down and fight all kinds of types of sharks and squids to get where I need to go. And that’s what we ended up drawing for it.
Anyone else looking forward to the Jurassic Park collection on Blu-Ray this year??
First they have to make another one. But it’s ten years later, and Sam Neil’s there with Jeff Goldblum, but they’re older and there’s these crystalline skulls everywhere…
Yes, crystalline skulls from alien dinosaurs!