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kingandy1) Why have you not done a coherent set of comics?
I'm going to assume you mean consecutive, meaning comics that follow on from one another rather than comics that make any sense.
It's largely because I'm not a writer. I can't sit down and write a script for a complete comic book. Part of this is the lack of confidence in my own ideas that I may have mentioned before, part of it is laziness. So I get an idea for a scene, and it makes perfect sense in my head, but it doesn't go anywhere. After a few pages I get bored and it peters out. If you don't at least plot the thing out before you start, it's easy to get discouraged the first time you run out of ideas, or suddenly realise that you have no idea where it's going and just aren't interested in the story any more.
Man who does not know where he is going will never reach his destination.
The other reason is because I don't have to. I am lazy and it seems too much like hard work. I'm reasonably sure I could do it; I wrote a reasonably cohesive plot arc or two for SoS while I was on the Campaigns team, mostly by virtue of being obliged to write a dungeon each month. But I won't, not while there's TV and computers to play with. And not while nobody's paying/forcing me to.
I don't know, perhaps I will one day. But the enticing thing about non-sequitur scenes is that you are not impeded by continuity, you can just insert people when a line of dialogue is required and not worry about who they are, what they're like, or what their powers and origins are. Unfortunately people have this awkward tendency to say "Who's that? Where did they come from? What happens next?"
2) When the day comes that you and Bacon can no longer live together, will you be able to cope with living on your own?
I would rather not live completely alone, if only because rent and bills are cheaper shared. But I think I will be able to fend for myself. I don't mind living in squalour, if Katy is not there to clean for me...
3) Blue or Green? Why?
Hmmm. Blue=sky, green=grass. Blue=jeans, green=T-shirts. I honestly don't know. I don't have a favourite colour, I like them all equally ... Having seen X-Men, Underworld and The Specials, though, I think I would rather be blue. Because blue people are cool.
4) What am I?
Benign.
5) Is there an afterlife?
I don't know, I've never been there ... I tend to think so though. If only because the human mind does not deal well with ultimates. The Universe cannot possibly go on forever, so it must end somewhere. On the other hand, there cannot be nothing outside the universe, so there must be something there. But what is outside the universe cannot go on forever ... It's the same with death. We cannot conceive of our own intelligence ending, so we decide that we must go somewhere. Things don't just stop, after all.
I rather like the Egyptian thing about souls, that you have an eternal soul-bit and a transient this-life-bit. The this-life-bit goes off to heaven while your soul-bit carries on into the next life. I don't know that I believe in it, but it's a nice idea.
I'm going to assume you mean consecutive, meaning comics that follow on from one another rather than comics that make any sense.
It's largely because I'm not a writer. I can't sit down and write a script for a complete comic book. Part of this is the lack of confidence in my own ideas that I may have mentioned before, part of it is laziness. So I get an idea for a scene, and it makes perfect sense in my head, but it doesn't go anywhere. After a few pages I get bored and it peters out. If you don't at least plot the thing out before you start, it's easy to get discouraged the first time you run out of ideas, or suddenly realise that you have no idea where it's going and just aren't interested in the story any more.
Man who does not know where he is going will never reach his destination.
The other reason is because I don't have to. I am lazy and it seems too much like hard work. I'm reasonably sure I could do it; I wrote a reasonably cohesive plot arc or two for SoS while I was on the Campaigns team, mostly by virtue of being obliged to write a dungeon each month. But I won't, not while there's TV and computers to play with. And not while nobody's paying/forcing me to.
I don't know, perhaps I will one day. But the enticing thing about non-sequitur scenes is that you are not impeded by continuity, you can just insert people when a line of dialogue is required and not worry about who they are, what they're like, or what their powers and origins are. Unfortunately people have this awkward tendency to say "Who's that? Where did they come from? What happens next?"
2) When the day comes that you and Bacon can no longer live together, will you be able to cope with living on your own?
I would rather not live completely alone, if only because rent and bills are cheaper shared. But I think I will be able to fend for myself. I don't mind living in squalour, if Katy is not there to clean for me...
3) Blue or Green? Why?
Hmmm. Blue=sky, green=grass. Blue=jeans, green=T-shirts. I honestly don't know. I don't have a favourite colour, I like them all equally ... Having seen X-Men, Underworld and The Specials, though, I think I would rather be blue. Because blue people are cool.
4) What am I?
Benign.
5) Is there an afterlife?
I don't know, I've never been there ... I tend to think so though. If only because the human mind does not deal well with ultimates. The Universe cannot possibly go on forever, so it must end somewhere. On the other hand, there cannot be nothing outside the universe, so there must be something there. But what is outside the universe cannot go on forever ... It's the same with death. We cannot conceive of our own intelligence ending, so we decide that we must go somewhere. Things don't just stop, after all.
I rather like the Egyptian thing about souls, that you have an eternal soul-bit and a transient this-life-bit. The this-life-bit goes off to heaven while your soul-bit carries on into the next life. I don't know that I believe in it, but it's a nice idea.
