Right, back to comics

Family bathtime. Good clean fun.

...and after that brief intermission to rant about the crumbling unethical politics of the UK, let's resume normal service.

I've done 165 pages. All the renders are done. In fact if I get a few hours peace this week, comic 19 [AKA The Greatest Bellerophon Comic Ever] might even be out on FRIDAY! COMIC DAY, BABY!!! Woop woop! No promises, but it's pretty likely.


The title of comic 19 will be 'The Quiet Ones', as a bit of a reference to The Dreamers (see pics). I know, another slightly straight film reference a la Shadows and Dust, or Fap Club. Thing is, the title Space Tits Ding-Dong Rub-A-Dub kinda set the bar pretty high for madness, so these straight titles balance the series out a little. And it includes a great big non-talking scene - which was pretty difficult to do but is I think more realistic (people don't talk ALL the time, after all). Difficult to do because having no speech bubbles in a comic encourages the reader to race through it, and is a lot of rendering effort because you have to move the plot on with expressions and poise rather than spelling out what characters are thinking all the time. Much harder. But I'd always wanted to do a silent scene because some of the best human interactions are silent, and you don't get that a lot in comics. Hence The Quiet Ones.

Anyway; The Dreamers - if you haven't seen it, it's a film about a guy discovering this isolated brother and sister who've inhabited a cool deserted apartment, surviving as their parents leave them for various reasons. Very good film. And seems appropriate considering my usual brother-sister intrigue stuff, eh? Yes. That's right.

In fact it's very fitting; they all just hang out semi-naked, talking nonsense and human politics the whole time. Chuck in some stars and an occasional alien and you'd basically have my entire comic series.

The Quiet Ones may also be the title of a non-great 2014 horror film, but heck they apparently didn't do a very good job so it's time to redeem the title, n'est ce-pas? Oui.

... pardon?

So, the comic - like I say, I've done all the rendering now; it'll definitely be 165 pages. An absolute mammoth then, with at least enough content for five separate comics. But heck I'm not selling them so I can decide how to divide up the plot, right? And I like the massive comic thing, because it gives you time to really get into it, really escape into the curious world that's being described. That's why not much happens in The Dreamers - you sort of get absorbed into the believable world of the siblings, makes it 100,000 times hotter when the slightest thing happens.

Only jobs left to do on the comic are (1) bit of speech tightening-up - like tweaking the conversation so it's either (a) sexier, or (b) funnier, or (c) flows better. Job (2) is the final task - adding all the 'wetness'; yep that gross job that always comes last. Photoshopping fluids is a bit of a mission normally, but for this marathon comic it's going to be a total nightmare because heck there's ... there's just SO MUCH OF IT!! Needs to be done though. That's why I can't guarantee this Friday - am too much of a perfectionist, even with sperm.

A Sperm Perfectionist? Is that a thing? Should be.