Slow Motion

February 19th, 2007

A heartfelt thank you to all our readers and friends who keep coming back to check on the comic. We apologize for leaving it unattended. The prolonged absence has its good reasons, but in the end, we just sincerely regret being away.

When Jon and I started the comic, we agreed on a few ground rules to decide its future. The main thing, in my mind, is that we tell the story the way we want. Sprawling crazy backgrounds, strange perspectives, gritty textures, and messed-up page layouts are all part of the fun. But it shows you why so many artists focus on upper bodies in three square panels - the work is simpler, faster, and more repeatable. You can cut out some illustration and instead focus on the dialogue, and speech bubbles are pretty fast to draw.

But the storytelling in WAIN has a necessarily visual tilt - the setting wouldn't be nearly the same if it were revealed through dialogue. (You can browse the archive and see where we changed page dimensions, in an effort to trade space for speed.)

Jon and I will continue to tell this story in the large, visual format we know it requires - but suffice to say we can't do it as regularly as we first planned. We have a whole stretch of stories planned and a climactic end-plot that we're both very excited about. There's so much more still to tell about this world, these characters - and how they change.

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