Anyone have any idea what this is referencing?
NEWS: The production of a book is a lot more involved than I would have ever imagined. I’ve come to realize the past few days that this is both a super exciting yet TIRING process.
Anyway, some things have come up with the production of the book that are both really neat but frankly more time consuming which is making the process take that much longer. For starters, the book will now contain both parts of the story so far (and a bit of whats to come). Because of this I had to rename the Volume from “This Desert Strife” to something else. This, what you see above, was the original cover to Vol.1 when it still had the name This Desert Strife. My goal was to release this cover when I announced the pre-order, but now that it will no longer be a cover I decided to share it online with you guys. The book will now have two parts in it, as i mentioned above, Act I and Act II. The acts are the sections the story is already broken up into (the original Volumes); The Desert Strife and Sin City Gritty. In addition it will have even MORE guest strips, art, and conceptual stuff.
One of the things that is gonna take a really long time is the fact that I will now be including commentary under the strips about what I was feeling when I wrote it, hints to the store, or simple some sort of secondary joke to the originals. This happened because my initial plan was to only have two strip per page and that’s it… but I stupidly didn’t realize that the format of the book was off. The book will be 8x8inches…but I was working in 8×7.something…. when I realized this last night I basically had to start the book over and change the design which freed me to now include commentary. At first I was annoyed by the design change, but now I’m rather pleased with it. Now the book with have even more exclusive content in it for you guys!
ANYWAY, here is the Act I page divider from the book. I hope you like it. :]
See you Wednesday with an actual comic!
Awesome, a new chapter! I can’t wait to see what unfolds next, btw I love the cover art
This isn’t a new chapter, this actually the first one. I just thought I’d share it since I wasn’t able to get a normal post done today. Sorry for the confusion on that.
ah no worries, I’m just now realizing that, thanks for the clear up though.
S’all good.
It looks great! Let me know if you’d like me to write a review of the book for you. I’ve done them for a few comic book collections now. I’d like to help, but I don’t have any money to give so I give reviews instead
haha, thanks for the offer. I’ll let you know if anything. :]
I’m kinda guessing that it’s a reference to dune? But not sure
It’s a music reference actually.
its referencing the 1999 third album release by Counting Crows, in which a suit with a fishbowl for a head appears.
ahh i was wondering why he had a suit on and everyone else looked normal
Yup.
… I JUST REALIZED IT’S “LARGE AIR WHALES LIKE SILENCE”!!!
I always thought it was “science”… Now i’m embarrassed XD
Heh, your not the only one, even some of my friends still call it that. I ALMOST even called it that myself when I started it. :]
I thought I was the only one!
…… I want this on a t-shirt.
IT WOULD BE AWESOME! O_o
Oh man, with the amount of colors this is, it would be crazzzzyyy expensive to produce! Shame, could it could be a cool design on a shirt. :/
Maybe produce it in grey-scale??
I like the design. It looks good. Reminds me of the earlier days of the comic, (which I really prefer).
also, the forum is in need of your help! we’re dying!
Thanks man!
Sorry I’ve been absent from the forums, this whole book production thing on top of me moving/packing has really killed my time… and before that it was Comic Con prep! GOD WILL LIFE EVER SLOW DOWN!?!
I was really hoping by now that they creators of that forum software would have release 5.0 already. Once that is out, the forum should be a lot better and I was gonna re-announce it to pull some new people in and such. By the time they release it, I should be back in there full swing… I hope.
I don’t know what to say… it’s a weird situation.
Maybe I’m just speechless in front of this masterpiece – or my sense of bad humor has gone and I’m not able to annoy you anymore.
Shucks, thanks! I appreciate your kind words. :]
Also, you never annoyed me. It’s nice to have someone to comment to and crack jokes with.