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MaxGorilla

Date:

August 10th, 2007 6:50 AM

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Page 73 and an idea!

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Hello everyone,

Page 73 of Max And The Gorilla Goon Squad is now online.

I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the way I produce, and present, Max And The Gorilla Goon Squad. Because this is a comic that gets updated every few days I have been trying to write each page to be interesting in and of themselves, and to obviously be a part of the bigger storyline as a whole. The problem this presents to me is that I have to get a lot in on each page and it really affects the flow of the story if read as a whole. I was aware of this at the beginning but it’s becoming something that I am not entirely comfortable with at the moment. I want to have bigger panels and action flowing nicely across a few pages etc etc, but I feel that I can’t do this because, to me, presenting a minimal amount of action panels on a page doesn’t give the reader much to read. Because people are only getting a new page every couple of days I want to give them more to read.

The idea I have had for quite some time now is to produce around six to ten pages a month which contain a ’chapter’ in the story, and present it all in one go, not one page at a time. I feel this would give me the opportunity to present my story in a more traditional comic book way and I can give the reader more to look at and enjoy, I can focus on pacing the action, or even quiuet moments, over the course of a few pages and not worry about these moments being broken up by the current method of one page every few days. Of course this would present other problems, such as traffic to the site being reduced, and people possibly forgetting about the comic because of having to wait an entire month for the next instalment.

At this point, all of these ideas are still floating around in my head and I haven’t made any final decisions. I need to think about this some more. Let me know what you think.

Take care everybody,
-Kev

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