'Not A Villain' Webcomic - Jane arrives first. Finds gravity.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 263

Thanks to the Wisp Express, Jane arrives first.

Also, this page makes Volume 2 officially longer than Volume 1. Still a large chunk to go through, too!

Oh, and I'll be at Intervention in Rockville, MD, next week with said Volume 1 plus art prints and buttons. If you're in the area, come and say hi!

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and Jane is Canadian!
*cheers*
…wait a minute …she’s the insane one

Jane has arrived first, but is she surprised about where she has landed? Or just that she got there so quickly?

Surprised by the sudden downward gravitational effect, I’d say

With Haz on this. She wasn’t really watching where she was going so when she got there and it forced her to not float she was surprised.

Aaaaand, once they reach land they can’t fly, that little detour made earlier makes more sense now.

Are they all in the same tutorial world, or is it separate for everyone? Because it appears as though Jane’s noticing something below, just before arriving to the island, as though she’d seen Kat disappear into the roots of the island.

Everyone is in their own tutorial world as it was never made to deal with more than one person at a time. This MIGHT get confusing when we really start leaping between the five of them and see each of them handle each problem in their own way so it’s something to keep in mind as we see more and more of this.

Sandra said each person would go through it on their own as an individual, not as a group…though that doesn’t preclude the idea that Jane has someone feeding her information from Kat’s trip (and the others’ attempts), or maybe she’s set up some sort of ghostly overlay/visual of what Kat and the others are doing…which is what I’d do, as a group leader. I’d want to know how my party members were faring.

Aneeka, here’s a possible suggestion: if you ended volume 2 with that double splash page of Kat floating in the aether after being uploaded, it would make a good cliffhanger ending. (And a “To Be Continued…page for book formatting.) Then you could do a quick summary page for the start of volume 3 and re-use that double-splash on the next two pages, re-acquainting the reader with what’s happening.

It’s entirely up to you, but if you wanted to keep the volumes moderate in size, that’s one way to go about it. The Game by definition is a new chapter in the story, and a new environment, one which (presumably) will be occupied for a while. It’s a good point for a section break. Mind you, I won’t object to a nice thick volume (in the same way I don’t object to curling up with a nice thick book), but I acknowledge that in order to get to that nice thick graphic novel volume 2…I’ll have to wait a while longer, compared to a shorter vol. 2.

Anyway, just an idea. I’ll settle back and await the next page, now. 🙂

That’s actually something I’ve been debating a lot in my head. The double splash would make a nice break and would make Vol 2 the same size as Vol 1. The problem is that I already have a section/chapter break planned and it’ll happen in about another 30-40 pages. I’m not quite sure how to bridge it if the next page needs to be continuous instead of being the end of a volume. And, of course, the extra 30-40 pages will affect the length of Volume 3. It’s like a domino effect.

I think I’m just going to wait until I actually finish my original idea for Volume 2 before I make the final decision 🙂

Good idea. Cause then you can get feedback from us, your loyal readers 😀

But remember! Web comics are not a democracy, they are a dictatorship ^^

Agreed, get it done, get a little bit into the next one, THEN figure out where a good break is.

And I–we–appreciate that you’re willing to listen to us. Personally, I didn’t know it was only planned to be 30-40 pages away; that’s actually not very much if you’re not dealing with a 32-page comic book format. (If you are, then it’s a huge–pun included–issue indeed. lol)

One of the big names in webcomics, Howard Tayler, creator of “Schlock Mercenary,” puts up online a good 5-6 books’ worth of stories in advance of what actually goes to print. I think he started putting his stories into print a bit late into his career, but he isn’t catching up super-fast, and it does give him time to figure out how long or short a story can be, not just how long or short it needs to be.

Pretty much the only thing you need to worry about is whether or not the splash pages and the double-splash scenes will fall on the correct odd, even, or even-and-odd pages. Sometimes a reader will suggest a really cool idea, and sometimes we (okay, I) will suggest a real pain in the pagination idea.

As Tre says, feel free to listen to us, but also feel free put your foot (or pen) down on What You, The Artist, Want To Have Happen. You’re a good enough storyteller, Aneeka, that the rest of us will probably continue to enjoy the ride, however it swerves or spins. We’re just enthusiastic about the rollercoaster, and popping off ideas on possible spirals, drops, and loops…

yea snowballing always effects me when i write, i feel like if one chapter is longer than the other, the others ones have to take the slack of the previous one…and then i realize i written a 500pg book lol

I know how that feels, Bobby; I ended up with an 8-book series based upon a single What If? question…and am in the middle of writing a second 8-book series that springboarded off the first. @.0 I don’t know how to write short stories very well.

what was the question and what are the books?

You should not write to fill a mold but to voice something inside yourself that wants to be heard! If it ends up being longer than you originally wanted that just means that thing you gave voice to had a lot to say!
But nobody is stopping you from finding a good spot to break it up into smaller chunks.

Darkening, it’s a fantasy romance series (I also do military science fiction) where the first series started with a “What if a woman from our world ended up in a world filled with magic, but she didn’t develop or have any, herself?” question.

There’s quite a bit more to the stories involved, but so as not to overrun Aneeka’s website any further with unrelated stuff, I’ll just post my website: http://www.JeanJohnson.net

Feel free to ask me more questions over there… 🙂

Think I found a missing link, clicking your name in blog posts that you see on simply navcomic.com without a page name says it cant find what I’m looking for.

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

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