The 4/22/15 update and looking forward
Greeting supplicants.
I wanted to make a post here that the next proper story update will be next Wednesday, the 29th of April (however, it’s a two page spread so expect the quality to be a little higher). However, there will be an update to KSBD this Wednesday. Unlike other updates, however, it’s going to be a retroactive update to the comic already on the site.
Let me start by saying my goal with this comic has always been to get it published in some fashion, and my aim is get a finished book available for you at the end of this year (think like October-November-ish). The material in the book will be everything from the beginning of the comic to the update next week, and possibly some text content. I hope I will be able to get a book out every year and a half or so in this fashion but I have no definite promises for you other than to say I’ve been talking to a publishing company about it.
However there are two things I’ll need to do first.
The first thing is to update the art on the earlier pages (which should go slowly), and I imagine this might not make it to the site for a while.
The second thing, and what I’ll deal with this week, is to clean up the writing of the comic. I agree with a lot of criticisms of my comic that the main character Allison feels very passive and the fine points of the plot are a little obtuse. Allison may remain kind of a weeny, at least for this book (though as you can see, this is changing a little in the next one!). I’m sorry guys, you’re going to have to stick with her. She hasn’t had any character development or agency in the story because the story proper hasn’t really started yet. I’m sorry for such a long prologue full of weird exposition, but I hope it was at least weird enough to satisfy your interest.
However, I am going to re-work (in some cases heavily) the dialogue on a lot of the pages so it’s a lot more clear just what the hell is actually going on, because letting people infer when there isn’t a lot to infer by yet is a little terrible given the update schedule of the comic. So, on Wednesday you should see the first dialogue pass. It’ll probably make things a lot clearer for you guys and clear up a lot of obtuseness for its own sake.
Until I’ve got a physical bound copy of this thing for you guys, I would consider it a rough draft at best, so thanks for reading so far and sticking with me. As you can tell through my writing, I think one of my core beliefs is against accepting complacency and stagnation. I’m constantly trying to refine my craft and I’m not always 100% satisfied with the work I do, but it’s work that needs to get done anyway, so I do it. It takes me anywhere from around seven to forty hours to do one of these pages (especially the spreads) but I’ve cut that time down a ton through just practicing every week. Though I’ve made comics for almost ten years now I think, KSBD is the first major comic project I’ve taken on (and my brain is constantly cooking up more now that I’m working on a regular project, believe me).
I want to give a huge thanks to Tobin (aka Vylus) who has been instrumental in getting the fantastic looking wiki into shape and who has also helped me with a dialogue pass in the comic.
See you on Wednesday, and next week we’ll definitively be wrapping up the first story arc of this comic, and on to the next, which involves
– unbound devils
– 82 drinking fire
– an angel that rides a motorcycle made of skeletons
– preteen Allison
– Maya’s first story
and most importantly, a Terrible Tree.
-Abbadon
A Terrible-… Tree?
Interesting, could this be the Flensing Tree of the Archons, that we have heard oh so much about?
Will we be able to access the old dialogue at all? Personally I have loved the feeling of being completely in over my head and lost along with Allison. While I’m interested in how you update it, I would love to be able to keep looking back at the current format.
I’ll save it. I think you’ll find it’ll still retain the same feeling, though, I’m just going to make it a lot more explicit why 82 takes Allison to a horrible criminal den to meet a devil for no apparent reason
Yeah, one thing I really enjoyed with this comic was that whirling feeling of being thrown into the middle of a completely chaotic and unruly universe.
For one it felt like the reader was level with Allison, and for another it made the world seem very big, very much like it had a life on its own, very much independent of our own excursion into it.
I’m sure you know what you’re doing, though. Looking forward to read on!
Agreed. The confused sort of “plunged into the thick of it” feeling is really quite nice.
Her wheel does not always turn forward, but the eyes on her rim, lidless, clouded with cataracts, look out in all directions.
It is inevitable that sight of Fortune may be lost as the wheel makes a full rotation, but Fortune will be seen again, and soon, all the better for her brief absence.
I am eagerly awaiting the printed version of this, which I will buy as soon as it becomes available! K6BD is a truly excellent comic, and if this will mean you will make more of it, then I would gladly support you in your task.
Hells, if the book is not too expensive I’ll probably even buy two, just in case.
This comic has been consistently awesome and even though I enjoyed every part of it as it was I’m excited to see what changes may be coming and especially for the updates of the future. The hints at the content of the next book sound awesome and I cannot be more hyped for a print version of this one.
I quite like the actual dialogues and the “lost” effect. I really enjoy to get clues later so I can read the story again with a new point of view, it’s always a mark of great comics to me. And if you’re feeling “Alan Moore-ish” you could also add several levels of reading 🙂
Thanks for you art
Hops that K6BD will be available in France.
Wow, thanks so much for the shout out! I really hope to get back on the wiki soon
Today is my birthday, and it hasn’t been great…was so looking forward to another “offering”, but, alas, no. That’s cool, it is worth the wait. You, Abbadon, said, “I agree with a lot of criticisms of my comic that the main character Allison feels very passive and the fine points of the plot are a little obtuse.” I disagree with that statement (obtuse), perhaps i’m too dumb to see it, or perhaps i GET IT, and perhaps i know that eventually, all will be made clear. As for Allison’s development thus far-even I know she isn’t going to be passive for long. I am a big fan of this work, it’s your baby, do with it what you want. Thank you so much for this work, for what you have done, and for what you will do.
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