#075
This comic is not as good as it could be. Not #075 specifically, but all of them. Sure, making 75 is something of a milestone. (They’re all milestones if you look at it a certain way.) It’s almost been a full year. But I’m not happy with it.
Don’t get me wrong. I love writing the strip, penciling it out, inking it up, grinding an eraser over the whole thing, and slopping colors all over it. But I’m not happy with it, and I hope I never am. The moment I am content with this stuff is the moment I run out of ways to improve it, and that’s not cool.
What does all this mean, realistically? I’m gonna need a few more weeks to finish up this current storyline, but after that, I want to swing things in a different direction. I’m tired of convoluted sequential storylines, at least in this format with these characters. I don’t wanna write any more comics without jokes, or comics that don’t make sense without reading the few prior. Once this is wrapped up, I’m gonna try to make Dinosaur Kid into more of a strip. For examples, see numbers 010 and 028 and 061. I want to surprise myself and surprise a reader every time they come to the site, not lock all of us into some uninspired and often unfunny plot-treadmill, plodding along until I get wherever I thought I was going 10 weeks ago when I thought all this stuff up.
That said, please enjoy this Octopus Kid sprite-sheet I made for fun.
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