– It looks like these big pages are just going to take some extra time. For the duration f this arc expect updates to happen late in the day instead of in the morning. Sorry guys!
– Ben and Elaine could use your help on the Dubious Company Volume 2 Kickstarter. DC is a great company, and Ben and Elaine are my friends, so please help them out!
– If you’re in a giving mood Mark Oakley’s Indiegogo campaign for the new Star Drop book could also use your help!
– I just watched Children who chase lost voices, last years Makoto Shinkai film. I really liked it, and i bet you will too.
– More about the Modest Medusa toys, since a few of you had questions. We haven’t done any design work yet, but we’ll certainly have finished designs to show you before any pre-orders happen. In fact, I expect we’d have a finished prototype. Daven also said that it’s possible that they might just start by doing a small run first and offer them directly for sale without the pre-order. Either way, we wouldn’t expect you to pay for something without having a good idea of what it will look like first! A lot of you also asked about price and international shipping. At this point I don’t have any info about price, except that we want to produce something affordable. I’d expect shipping to be reasonable, but maybe there’s something about sending toys to other countries that I don’t know about? Anyway, I’m still eager for your input. The more of you who comment here, the easier it will be for Daven and I to decide how to move forward with this project!
wooo, even if the big pages are taking a bit longer, gotta say they are worth the wait Jake!
Thanks!
This one feels off, composition-wise. You broke the 180 degree rule between the first and second panel. I get that you put the puffballs there to give it intentionality, but it’s not enough to keep it from feeling unintended.
The simplest way to fix this would be to flip the first panel horizontally. But if you wanted to keep the 180 break to give more of a sense of wandering, you could do something non-linear with the first two panels like put them off alignment or tilt the dividing line, and even tilt the perpendicular dividing line between them and the third panel, but that’d be a bit more work.
All in all, nice job.
Good feedback. I generally dismiss the 180 degree rule for transitions that take place more than a few minutes apart. Maybe that was a mistake here though.
I disagree. Since the first panel is forest and the second is rocks, there was nothing that felt off about it.
I think this is another medusa, in another land!
I replied to the wrong thing. whooooops
I just took it as two very different scenes, separated by time and distance, and not related at all.
That is how it comes off, to me…like a disconnect between the panels; is that what you are doing here? Separating the panels from each other, in the viewers’ minds…to give the sense that he had been aimlessly exploring for some time? Maybe if the early panels had been “closer” thematically and had elements making them feel connected (like how you used the door, on the last page)…and then you added more and more separating panels from their predecessors…like, I’d be willing to bet this page and the preceding one are received very differently if the audience takes them in as a single sequence, than as separate “episodes” (as separate updates of a webcomic often are).
Its been a few years, so my intent is a little foggy in my mind. But i think you’re right, that how the reader experiences the panel really makes a difference in how its perceived. I bet it feels like a longer amount of exploration if you read it as part of an update that came after several days or waiting instead of as the next page in a story thats available right away.
It’s Modest Medusa’s evil twin sister, Immodest Gorgon.
dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn
Nooooooo. If you recall, “Gorgon” is the name of Modest Medusa’s mother. 😛
Whoa! The snakes have red eyes! There’s only one character who has snake hair with red eyes…
Oops… not snake hair; head snakes.
Wait..what am I missing? Is this another story within the story?
Hmm, her name is “Gorgon”. As I recall (as I was rereading the comic a while back), the first folks met in Yeld said the Gorgon was the mother of all medusa. So……
… we are in a flashback?
Medusa’s Mom’s origin story
I mean Momdusa’s Origin Story
I’m all for the plush medusa.
If we are getting an origin arc, this will be great. Thanks Jake
Ooooh goodie! An adventure! Or is it a quest? Anyway, Pa-dusa is looking quite elfin.
I really like the idea of small plastic toys, that could sit on a shelf or a desk. I like plushies too, but I’m kind of overwhelmed with plushies. If it had a loop on it so I could hang it up somewhere, that would be better.
Hay Jake, I have a request, how about a character portrait of all the characters in one splash page, it think it would be really cool (I know it would be a lot of work). I really like your designs.
I’m actually working on something kind of like that right now.
Also an image like that would make for an awesome desktop background! 😀
what is going on here?!?!?!?!