The Hardest Thing

"A Runabout! I'll steal it! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW "
-Dan Backslide, The Dover Boys

Dan Backslide. My favorite one time cartoon villian? Yes. Yes he is.

So outside of a hiccup with storyboarding essentially forcing me to move back to full scripts after this episode, I wonder if I'm giving too much information at the onset. My creative bible is Futurama and in the first episode the main characters are introduced and the foundation for the characters are set. My first episode doesn't do that and in fact the bulk of the main characters aren't introduced until a little bit later. While that works fine for a cartoon series where you only have to wait a week for another episode, a webcomic even updating four times a week this means waiting weeks or months.

Essentially the conflict boils down to this: Should I guarantee that the story has a solid foundation before getting into the meat and potatoes or should I jump into the meat and potatoes and build a foundation as time goes on. Right now I'm doing the former because even though it means that while the action will start a little slower, once it picks up it can stay up. ...Yes I know that's what she said. STAY FOCUSED.

Don't misunderstand this. Episode One is just as actiony and important as say Episode Four. It's just a little bit of exposition. Laying the groundwork, so you know the characters and understand them and why they do what they do. The only episode in question is One. Everything after one is part of the original Jay Cardinal story and is exactly what it was supposed to be. So yeah. At any rate. JC starts Monday, May 24th. I'm drawing the pages for next week as I type this post so get ready. Merritt out.