Our TVtropes page is growing ever-so-long, thanks to the contributions of another TVtropes fairy, Civanfan! Professor Lysander and Civanfan are now my two favoritest people.
Chapter 7 is in good health. 11 pages are cleaned-up, 8 inked, 3 colored and scheduled. If I manage to ink the whole thing in the next 2 weeks (by far the most time-consuming part of the comic), then we won’t have late pages for at least half a year, even in our two-per-week schedule. Wouldn’t that be awesometastic?
Now here is another picture of our 3D ambient exhibition gallery: the common room.
As I’m by no means an architecht, I keep staring at this and wondering if it’s not wildly out of proportion. Are the stairs too wide, the tables too short? I used a biped skeleton as a standard of sort, but I ‘unno, man. Maybe it’s the angle. Let’s see how it’ll look in-pannel.
I thought it might be weird, a creator seeing others pick apart their creations into bits, analyse and then sort them into little boxes. Visiting TVtropes knocked one of my projects into a temporary standstill when I discovered I had accidentally written a sci-fi remix of Wizard of Oz.
Really? As a creator, I actually kind of want to see people picking my story apart. First, it means it’s being read – I don’t get that many comments, and at least half my comment count comes from my answering people. Second, it means people are interested enough in the plot to analyse it and try and draw their own conclusions based on what they’ve read so far. They’re paying attention ♥
Since I do have an overarching plot for this comic, it means a lot to me to see people picking up on minor clues. And if they see things that aren’t there, well, I just sit back and laugh an evil laugh, because leading people up the garden path is fun too. And you shouldn’t let TV Tropes freeze your tale – Sci-Fi Wizard of Oz sounds like something totally awesome, and if you didn’t do it on purpose, then your plot would eventually go its own way, twisting the reader’s expectations in the proccess.
I’m already re-working the story so it’s using the deeper archetypes that Oz shares while still having its own identity. Besides, Chris Roberson recently did a scifi version in his “Paraworld.” It was pretty good, though I haven’t felt any urge to re-read it.