Archive for April, 2008

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Right and Left

by Major Tom on April 27th, 2008
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Right and Left

Posting a bit early this week since I am still awake. Just a 4-panel today, I’m still really conflicted about the format. A longer more involved format demands more from what few readers I have. Shorter is better for new people and people passing through, and probably lighter feeling too. For now expect things to evolve and change. Today we see Olaf (Ugo left with John), and you’ll note he has a slightly different color green and only one horn. I felt they were too similar. I’m still not sure having two of them makes sense. Thanks for reading.

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Summoned

by Major Tom on April 21st, 2008
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Summoned

Looks like John is going for a little trip without ASIMOV. I’ve continued with the double strip format, it’s definitely a lot more work. If I am going to continue this way, it will be hard to post any bonus strips, but I hope the product might be a little better, the extra space definitely gives me more freedom to tell the story and develop the characters. This one actually started out as a single 3 panel, but just didn’t quite work well enough. I’m not saying every strip will be full sized at this point, but certainly many of them probably will. I hope to continue to keep the humor in the strip (like today) that is character driven, not really gag driven, but also tell an interesting story. Be glad to hear your thoughts.

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Geborga

by Major Tom on April 17th, 2008
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Geborga

Bonus strip again this week. As you can see Ugo has changed his appearance a bit yet again. He’s pretty much how I want him now. This is my first double strip which builds on the “Observation” strip of Monday, and which moves the strip a bit away from the silly gag-a-day theme to more character/story driven themes. (Don’t worry, humor will still be part of the strip.)

Seems as though Ugo takes the Geborga pretty seriously. The next strip will start the new story arc involving these new creatures, and we’ll see exactly what they plan on doing to John and ASIMOV. Something tells me our good Captain’s people skills may make the whole thing very interesting…

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Observation

by Major Tom on April 14th, 2008
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Observation

Who are these guys?

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Some Changes Coming

by Major Tom on April 13th, 2008
Posted In: Blog

Well, I’m 10 strips into the comic now and I’ve gotten to get a slight feel for the characters and the storyline. I’ve gotten some interesting feedback as well. I do think the characters need a bit more development and need to be broken of some cliche characteristics. I’ll be working on that as things go along.

Also, the 3 panel gag is tough to do well, and to keep fresh. I think some of my gags have been “cute” but not necessarily very well written (or really all that funny either.) I’ll probably be re-sizing the strip to give me 4 panels to work with, and be doing some double-sized entries to give more room to tell stories.

I’d rather have the humor come naturally through the characters, not force it by telling tired “pickle” jokes. I had already been moving toward the first real story arc anyway, and tomorrow the first strip in that story will be posted.

As always I welcome any feedback.

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