The setting of Other//half is not wont to fit easily into four pages. Four written pages, maybe, would be enough to convey much information about the world and possibly tell a story within it, but that's not what we're talking about. Four comic book pages. Or fewer. That's what we had to work with, for the workshop showcase compilation.
My original concept of what to do for this project, at the beginning of the month or whatever, was a remake of a comic I completed sometime late-mission; it was a sociological exploration of the interaction between mind and body and soul, and even headier than that makes it sound. And still pretty awesome I think. In other words, it dealt more with themes than setting, and so would make sense divorced even from any knowledge of this world; I thought it to be the only decent four-page comic that a neophyte could walk into the setting with and still comprehend.
But then there's this.
The whole thing, or at least the last page which was enough to extrapolate the rest from, came to me wholecloth in a dream on Wednesday morning, as I explained probably somewhere in that day's ramblish post. Well, not wholecloth wholecloth- I didn't invent the phrase Chester the Molester. But the rest of that concept is mine. Or my subconsciousness's.
A vole is a kind of mouse, I'd been toying with, and maybe in the dream it was also this way, somebody going "maybe Chester the Vole??" but that just didn't go with any flow and it wouldn't make sense anyway and I just now remembered that it was a thing.
But I'm extremely satisfied with this. More pairs of eyes on it would help me know if it needs revision, if it's not as funny as it could be, all that, but the concept of it, as a three-page comic related to Other//half but completely understandable adjacent to its world or characters, is just a homerun. Two Chesters there at the end, even- someone who reads this and then reads the comic wouldn't be confused why there's doppelgangers of people running around; they'd get the wrong idea why but at least they wouldn't be confused.
So I went to go see Twelfth Night last night, its final performance was the first time I had schedule open to see it, and even then the schedule wasn't totally open and I had to miss International Cinema.
If anybody's seen the British silent film The Lodger, better let me know.
That comic was pretty darn funny. I laughed out loud.
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