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[chief]

I asked the question on the Sea3on page its self, but I figured why not ask the board as well.


So my question to all of you loyal readers, what would you do with Sea3on if you were incharge of writing the comic?

Also while I am at it. What would you do with Sea3on if you were the artist. Character changes? Leave it like the classic? Make Sally wear diapers (this is a test to make sure Kuta hasn't snuck back into FUS)?

[Gojira007]

Curse you, Paul!

CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURSE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!

[Shadow]

I would work on expanding new areas to explore on Mobius. Outposts Robotnik has run independently and back up plans kicking in if anything happened to him. I certainly would play up Naugus as a real mind game villain, using his cunning to use the FF against one another. I think bringing back Lazar would be a must since this season would be dealing with a magical foe, they would need a teacher or guide to turn to. Naugus would set Robotropolis to self destruct that Sonic and Snively would need to work together to override. Perhaps some solo stories of Tails having his own adventures..

[John Roberts]

I think bringing back Lazar would be a must since this season would be dealing with a magical foe

And also the Magic Scrolls could come into it somewhere for the same reasons. I would definitely find a way to bring in some season one elements and make those lost plot points relevant again.

[chalcara]

Not much differently, it's a real high quality comic and I'm enjoying the ride.

One thing is to try cut down the words per panel/page, to give the art more room to breath, but that's more a question of personal preference.

[MistressAli]

Huh, well I would say Nagus and Snively slash, but that would be expected of me. So yeah...um..
Nagus and Snively slash!

Maybe Nagus could brainwash Dulcy and bring her over to the dark side. Turn her into an evil mofo. lol.

I think I like the comic as it is.

[salamander]

1. More Antoine
2. Antoine should be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine
3. Whenever Antoine is not on the page, the other characters should be asking "where's Antoine?"
4. ... (list goes on to 582 in a similar fashion)

Not much differently, it's a real high quality comic and I'm enjoying the ride.

One thing is to try cut down the words per panel/page, to give the art more room to breath, but that's more a question of personal preference.

Yeah, the text/pic ratio is something I'm still trying to find a balance with.. On one hand I don't want to create big walls of text, on the other hand since there's only one page a week, I want to keep the comic moving at a good pace. Early on I got complaints that there wasn't much going on in each page/things were going really slowly, so I tried to include more content on each page. If there were more pages a week I'd probably stretch things out more, but as it stands I break up the pages so the plot moves forward every week. I go too far the other way sometimes and try to condense too much to a single page, but at least I'm getting closer to finding the right mix of art and story to make it work.

[chalcara]

1. More Antoine
2. Antoine should be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine
3. Whenever Antoine is not on the page, the other characters should be asking "where's Antoine?"
4. ... (list goes on to 582 in a similar fashion)

Not much differently, it's a real high quality comic and I'm enjoying the ride.

One thing is to try cut down the words per panel/page, to give the art more room to breath, but that's more a question of personal preference.

Yeah, the text/pic ratio is something I'm still trying to find a balance with.. On one hand I don't want to create big walls of text, on the other hand since there's only one page a week, I want to keep the comic moving at a good pace. Early on I got complaints that there wasn't much going on in each page/things were going really slowly, so I tried to include more content on each page. If there were more pages a week I'd probably stretch things out more, but as it stands I break up the pages so the plot moves forward every week. I go too far the other way sometimes and try to condense too much to a single page, but at least I'm getting closer to finding the right mix of art and story to make it work.

I don't think that's an area where you have alot influence on on your own. I'm not sure how the script looks, but all you can do as an artist is compressing/decompressing and it's the action/exposition ratio, and Gojira's deciding THAT by writing the dialogue itself.

Now the dialogue's great - it's just that it's currently far more fitting to a novel than to comic. You've got far more space for dialogue per scene in a novel than you have in a comic, unfortionally. I've been struggling with that in my own comics as well. Blargh. Simply but, in order to tweak the dialogue/action ratio, Gojira would have to shorten dialogue and/or rely more on your art to convoy plot. Not much you can do, Salamander.

[John Roberts]

I knew this could be boiled down as being all Gojira's fault!. It's okay, Sala, we'll find you a better writer soon.

I don't have the greatest experience in drawing comics, but I can put my hand up and say how difficult it is to write comic pages, especially in a weekly format. You do not have the luxury of a few pages to build up to something without your pace suffering from it. I'm a huge fan of the 4-5 act breaks formula used for TV writing. It's how I think and write my scripts. But in a page-a-week formula you just can't do it, not without losing any kind of suspense you may have tried to build up. Be kind of like eight commercial breaks in a single scene.

So, my hats off to those writers, and artists, that can make it work.

[chalcara]

I knew this could be boiled down as being all Gojira's fault!. It's okay, Sala, we'll find you a better writer soon.

I don't have the greatest experience in drawing comics, but I can put my hand up and say how difficult it is to write comic pages, especially in a weekly format. You do not have the luxury of a few pages to build up to something without your pace suffering from it. I'm a huge fan of the 4-5 act breaks formula used for TV writing. It's how I think and write my scripts. But in a page-a-week formula you just can't do it, not without losing any kind of suspense you may have tried to build up. Be kind of like eight commercial breaks in a single scene.

So, my hats off to those writers, and artists, that can make it work.

Yep, it's really, really hard. It all comes down to balance - and it's hard to balance stuff like this. Each comic page is like a mini-story itself, and hitting the right notes... bleh.

*shakes fists at her own comic scripts*#

But like I said, I love Season3 and it was just a minor quibble.

[Gojira007]

My ears are burning.

Anyway, I actually do try to keep that weekly-basis thing in mind when writing my scripts (the current one in particular has undergrone numerous and drastic revisions for that very reason), and I also try to be as descriptive as I can for sala so she best understand how to translate that work to the page. If I have failed in either area to whatever extent, I apologize profusely, and promise to try harder in the future to improve on both.

[chalcara]

*hands you ear-lotion*

See, that's why I usually keep my mouth shut.

[Gojira007]

No no, it's good to hear this sort of thing. It'll really help me in the future, and I thank you for pointing it out in the first place, chal.

[chief]

It won't help you in the future. You are fired. Shitty for you. Should have learned how to write before!

[Gojira007]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. T_T

[Inhibitor]

Moar Bunnie and/or Sonic action! You know I can't live without it! I'm tired of seeing tails or antione in every panel but not the COOL PEOPLE. Do you guys want to lose a loyal fan? Get to work slackers!

[chief]

Eh, we have more loyal fans where you come from. Like that one loyal fan that thought I was serious about killing off tails. That fan can take your spot easy enough. They can even cover your crazyness and anger too. So... See ya!

NEXT!

[Glitcher]

When you consider what the most popular episodes of SatAM are, the answer seems obvious. I think Sea3on should revisit the time-travel concept of Blast to the Past, giving the Freedom Fighters another chance to rewrite history. I'm a sucker for time-travel stories (I masturbate to paradoxes) and it will be a great way to include the kids into the comic. Tell me Sonic and Sally pick up the Time Stones in the future. (No pun intended.)

[chief]

Hahaha to be honest creating a huge ass parodox would be a fun way to confuse people

[SBaby]

I'd probably make it like my FanFic, but that's just because it would be the easiest way to write the story, since I'd already have the plot figured.

The only three characters that I ever used for my SatAM-related fanfic were Knuckles (in a character that was very different from any incarnation of Knuckles to-date), Sonic's mother (Aurora, since I couldn't think of a better name), and Void (originally a Sega Sonic character, she was a robot in the Fic, named after 'that place', as Naugus put it, and she was the only enemy at the time that could truly challenge Sonic's speed). But I did throw in that Nicole was named after Sally's mother (although that was in the prequel mini-Fic).

Now if you want specifics, I'd have to look at my notes, because it's been awhile since I worked on it (I could summarize the whole thing for you if you wanted, but it would take awhile). But I do remember having the Chaos Emeralds in it, as well as a new magical item called the Staff of Seven Parts (which started as a D&D reference and became somewhat of an anomaly later in the Fic). Also, the Emeralds were significantly more dangerous in my Fic than in any other incarnation of Sonic.