Meta-pacing
Greetings, folks!
Well, I’m pleased to report that Roddy Hart and the Lonesome Fire’s appearance on the Late Late Show was a resounding success, and the lads’ve been booked on for a week’s residency as a result! We’re all incredibly proud of them!
Anyway, returning to the world of Elf Blood, I hope that you’re enjoying the story so far! I must say, it’s a nice change to do a story that’s almost wall-to-wall action, interspersed with the (relatively) quiet scenes of TKO and the birth of her child. I’ve been going over the plot outline of the next Elf Blood story – Originally, I had planned a dungeon-crawler style romp, but it struck me that having another action-oriented story immediately after this one (well, not immediately after, as you get an issue of Mei Wu in between them!) would be be a little fatiguing. While action is all well and good, I don’t think you get the same value as a reader than with a more involved storyline, and doesn’t let you care about the characters as much. There’s also the texture of the meta-plotting to consider – It’s nice to change up the flow, by following intense action with quieter drama, so as to let the audience ‘rest and recover’, as it were.
To that end, I’m tweaking the style of the next plot – It will still be a ‘historical’ story, focused on the elves at the time of the fall of Alfheim. However, instead of a trek through a dangerous dungeon on a quest for an artifact to aid the Alfen cause, what I propose now is an equally deadly journey through the Holy Roman Imperial Court, as we follow some familiar faces (yup, you read that right, and no, it doesn’t involve time travel!) on a diplomatic mission to stop the bloody inter-empire war. It’ll help build a little more of the world of Elf Blood, expand on some characters who haven’t had a massive amount of screen time, and should hopefully have you on the edge of your seat in a tale of desperate political intrigue!
Anyway, that’s something to look forward to later on this year! In the meantime, there’s plenty of high-kicking badassery to be had in The Child arc! Stay buckled in, folks!
M.
Ok, you’ve really ramped up your posting schedule! I normally check in every Friday and have a comic or 2 to read, but this time there are a ton! Which is a good thing, so should a switch to m/w/f or are you on a short term tear? btw, I replied to your sailing comment from about 5 comics ago… (I check in once a week, remember)
Ah, no, I think it must just be serendipity! I always upload the comics the evening before (well, technically, the morning of, but I’m talking 1-2 AM here!) and they’re set to publish at 0600 on the day! I’d love to ramp up my production of Elf Blood, but I’m keen to continue working on other art projects in the meantime, and twice a week suits me well thus far! I think it’s enough to keep the story going at a reasonable rate without endangering the rest of my schedule! I’m also mega-busy right now with job-related stuff, more on that in a while hopefully!