Rich has just released a new q&a. I get it in email, but i assume it’s posted somewhere public, too
Here’s a link
Thanks for the link, @Peter_Morris ! A good read!
I may adopt “Anyone can plan years in advance if it takes you years to finish it!” as my new motto.
Not a lot of plot advancement, but a fun strip.
And has anyone else noticed the disturbing proliferation of stray threads of reality?
That was oddly inspiring.
As a childless former teacher, I agree.
Mushrooms Unite!
Great strip.
Separately, over a Patreon Rich makes an observation that resonates with me:
I just don’t enjoy the modern corporate franchise model of storytelling, where existing settings need to be exploited endlessly for stories that don’t mean a whole lot.
There are 5 or 6 components of storytelling; they are conflict, setting, theme, character, plot, and maybe tone. Works emphasize a subset of the preceding; inevitable tradeoffs mean that some are de-emphasized. Hollywood leans a lot on conflict. That they reuse settings so much reflects the fact that they don’t care too much about it. Character receives a moderate weight, which in no way implies that the characters are reliably interesting. Indeed, many aren’t especially credible. At any rate, there’s no getting around the most important over-arching component, the talent of the creators.
My tastes run towards theme. That’s problematic, as are all tastes.
cite: Pey Talks Anime over on Youtube.
That’s been going on for quiet a while now, hasn’t it?
Yes, i have bio-kids, but i care a lot more about my legacy in the sense that O’Chul does than i do about whether my gene line continues.
Yes, but it seems to be accelerating.
1336 - This is About Writing This
That’s gone a little too meta, even for Elan. But I get it - it’s a message from Rich that beyond here be few gags.
In the last panel there’s some red bugs coming out from under the door.
They’re not Xykon’s roaches though. Look more like ticks.
It’s also a promise that we’ll be getting some plot development. And a reminder of those stray reality threads, in case you hadn’t noticed.
The red things coming from under the door are Nale’s demonic presence.
Which is a callback to the time when Roy set off a bunch of traps at a door and then Elan opened the next door when Nale was immediately on the other side, in the first 100 strips.
Dun, dun, DUN.
On an entirely different note, I just received my long-forgotten Kickstarter reward of the Dim Sun story.
So that’s nice.
Oh my God! Me too! I’d kinda given up on that.