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Posts authored by Karel Kerezman

Fountain Of Snooze

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A moment of culture? In my webcomic? I don’t know, is that allowed?

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Here’s the thing: Aronofsky’s film, The Fountain, is visually stunning. And pretentious. And complicated. And comes with a great soundtrack. My little plastic partners in crime each see (or, in Roger’s case, hear) different things in the same movie. Does that make the movie a success? Arguably.

That doesn’t mean I want to watch it again any time soon, though. I gave up the art-flick habit many years ago…

State Of The Comic, July 2009

State Of The Comic, July 2009 published on 2 Comments on State Of The Comic, July 2009

Hey, look, it’s still here!

Now, let’s be serious. Where are now?

  • Inkblot and Webcomic, the theme and plugin combo which drives this thing (on top of WordPress), have been updated (often, in Webcomic’s case). Things have settled down on that front, so now I can think about…
  • Site design! What you see here is, for the most part, the stock Inkblot design code. I want to play with button design and color schemes, and I really want a better-looking banner graphic. (Yes, I did just slap some text on top of part of one of my camera-test shots from… April? May?) And, by popular demand (combined with just plain common sense)…
  • Cast page! The Yamiyurikai aren’t the only faces folks may have a tough time keeping track of, admittedly. So, I’m putting this at the top of the To-Do list. All things considered I’ll probably end up doing the new banner at the same time, but there you go.
  • Last and most assuredly not least: You people rock. You keep coming back for more! You comment! You encourage! You laugh (and groan at the puns)! The site metrics tell me that while we may not be setting traffic records, the traffic is consistent and steady. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

And that’s the news that’s fit… for now.

And Nosy Makes Three

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It’s as if they don’t trust me not to meddle in their affairs, or something…

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Once again, what we’re doing here is establishing the scenario a bit more. As implied in a couple of earlier strips, Poe and Shimako are “an item,” for lack of a better term. I wanted an established pairing to provide opportunities for the kind of banter that you only get out of a long-term relationship. The flipside of that, then, is the (storytelling) need for a romantic situation that, if not actually doomed, is not bound to be a “smooth sailing” deal.

And so… we get Roger and Rei, the jester and rocker versus the babysitter with an occasionally short fuse.

What could possibly go wrong?

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