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I was in two very different moods when I wrote the last two songs. Melancholy is not a bad term for Friends These Days but with the music, while it starts that way, it ends up angry and bitter. However, Should I Would I is far more tongue-in-cheek because I was actually making light of a situation a friend of mine relayed to me. Her comment upon reading these lyrics was that it was 'oignant'. The music itself is really quite upbeat, because, well, this is something that actually amuses me a lot.

What I aimed for in both was to capture a specific experience or moment that people can relate to. That "three day before calling after a date" rule is the stupidest form of social masochism I can think of.

I'll just leave this here...



I'm getting a collection of these! Now do I have the guts to put something like NaNoWriMo on my CV... hahahaha xD

Update on the poster:



I don't know what colour to make Khale's (the jackal's) pimp-suit. Note that several characters have not been properly shaded, and there is still background to do.

I don't know what colour to make Khale's (the jackal's) pimp-suit.

noooooo... make it purple because against the lion's yellow skin it would look really nice purple and maybe neon green pin stripes.

I've been considering both the purple and the green before I even asked here, so we're on the same wavelength. Following these suggestions I think I'll go with purple AND green! But it'd have to be very narrow and very light green stripes like LS says...

...you know that's the colour scheme of the Joker, right? How awesome is that!

Lol you going to make him have an evil laugh....and some sort of trade mark?

Khale is probably the least sympathetic (i.e. most evil) character in Strugglers. Through and through a despicable character that you wouldn't want to be in the same town in, yet hopefully the way I portray him, you can't help but feel a little sorry for him.

I'll just leave this here...

Nope, I actually finished the screnzy challenge in 5 days. Because I was writing a comic book script, it was tons easy. Dialogue is my writing strength, so it's easy to fill up the pages regardless of what kind of script I'm doing.

I'm at work at the moment. Give it a few hours!

Here's the progress on the matchups page from the WoM thus far:

good choice stroppy.

Khale is probably the least sympathetic (i.e. most evil) character in Strugglers

lol, Khale never meets Strip. They belong in separate fictional universes.

And Strip's probably not 'malleable' enough for Khale, so if they ever did meet, he would probably both hate her and be drawn to her for the challenge of trying to bend her to his will.

I was wondering how long have you been working on your comic? that is the story behind it.

The idea first sparked back in 2007, in a very different form. I was creating the main character Nes and trying to put him in different clothes. Somehow I got this:



As you can see, most of that costuming has stayed with him over the past few years. I used the character in a different story but gave him a similar background, and decided to adapt it to a more modern context. Many of the other characters, who actually belong to a friend of mine, came from that same story.

However I dropped it sometime in 2007 and didn't touch it for a while because I was working on the novel instead (yes, that's been going for three years too). After a while I actually wanted to turn the cast of Strugglers into a fighting game... as you can now see though this role is being taken up with the WoM. Strugglers then gradually evolved without much direction until I realised that I really wanted to finish off a real, concrete story with most of the characters that had been lumped into it. The storyline has only gained a concrete form in the past couple of months, so now I'm just writing it all down and getting all the artistic concepts finalised.