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Adam Dravian:


Writing a comic is a lot harder than I thought it’d be. With every word you use, you’re covering up more of the art, so words come at a premium. If this were a novel, I could write a natural conversation between Eddie and Alex, weaving in important bits of exposition here and there while adding some depth to the characters and the relationship they have.

But that’s tricky in a comic. I need to accomplish a lot in as few words as possible, leaving Jessica’s art to fill in the blanks. It’s definitely taken me a bit to get used to.

Rijst:
You know I never actually thought about these things. Does Jessica ever turn around and say "hey Adam, enough with the prose already! I want some room to draw Eddie doing a van Damme split.."? Or the other way around perhaps where you decide there's room left for more text?

Adam Dravian:

--- Quote from: Rijst on March 27, 2016, 05:31:22 AM ---You know I never actually thought about these things. Does Jessica ever turn around and say "hey Adam, enough with the prose already! I want some room to draw Eddie doing a van Damme split.."? Or the other way around perhaps where you decide there's room left for more text?

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A lot of the conversations I've written end up getting whittled down once Jessica starts sketching the page. Usually, the first thing she does is import the dialogue and arranges it all, trying to figure out how many panels the page will require. Sometimes she asks me to trim the dialogue down, and others times she does it herself and has me approve it.

I'm not nearly as verbose as I was when we first started doing this comic. For instance, the scene early on in Issue 1 where Eddie talks with his friends in the arcade was originally wordy enough to fill up about five or six pages, but we ended up scaling it down to fit into two.

On the flip side, there have been times where I'll see some empty space on the page and think up some extra dialogue that could fit there, but usually by that point Jessica's so sick of working on that particular page that she blows off my suggestion.

Jake (Not the Snake):
Adam how do you decide what to keep and what to cut? I suffer from occasional verbosity myself and I'm always looking for perspective.

Also what is Eddie swinging? Materialized nunchaku?

Red:
Will Eddie's real parents ever turn up?

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