Sometimes you need to pit your hero against a superior tactician, maybe with the additional advantage of surprise. Your hero might develop tactics of their own by the end of the story, but handling that initial encounter can be tricky: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anyway, before this sequence became about Flo and me yelling at each other, it was first about getting all the readers to yell at Shanna! This is a tangled topic I can talk about from many perspectives, but let’s focus […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You can tell Shanna is eating up everything Xan is putting down here because she actually defines Kingdoms of Arkerra accurately and without one iota of geek-tweaking snark. And another piece of the puzzle drops into place, followed by what looks to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What a pleasant man! (That close-up of his smile… really does the job there, great work on John’s part.) Otaking pointed out that the thirty-dollar charge paralleled “thirty pieces of silver,” and man, I wish I could say we had […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Presenting real-life people in your comic is obviously kind of fraught, at least if you don’t want your reality to collapse in a pile of meta or broad comedy. If they’re your friends or friendly acquaintances, you want to at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
