Someone mentioned recently that they dig my references to ‘both-and’. Thanks; yeah I think we [society] miss that stuff so much – a quick look at Twitter will reveal that nuance and paradox are not exactly commonly understood.
I wrote 6-7 comics within about a month, back in late 2018, before I even started the first Lithium comic. As I go through a comic, I add more banter, or I fine-tune some of the jokes, and I let the character lead the way. With Lithium this was pretty linear – as there’s really only 2 characters I felt I understood them pretty well early on, so there hasn’t been much deviation from the 2018 script / framework.
However – the other series has been more surprising. I had in mind where it was going, how it was going to knit up with Lithium, but I was caught off guard by S’s character. Her darker stuff, which is going to be massive in the upcoming comic, only came into being on the 2nd comic – it was when she describes space as ‘dark’, when the others are more upbeat, that I kinda caught her character a bit and ran with it. I then completely changed comics 4-5 to follow that character, explore the darkness a bit more because I liked the way it counterpointed B’s attempts to be perfect. This will make more sense in the next comic – you’ll see what I mean. Anyway I called him B ‘Bridger’ as the bridge between what I assumed was the green one (representing repressed / enslaved), and civilisation, but it’s turning into S’s story really, and he really shines as the bridge at his weakest moment in the upcoming comic. Which comes back to the article above on the tax collector – B’s trying to get it right, but it’s really when he confesses his weakness that things get ‘made one’.
What if our weaknesses are our strengths? Interesting 🙂
