.... I mean it this time.
Alright, so Gin and the Starboard Pirates. That idea with the band of drink pilfering space pirates on a bubble powered wooden ship, who are named in reference to alcoholic drinks yet themselves don't actually drink? (at least not on the ship. Off on shore it's fair game so long as you come back sober...) Yeah that?

Before I adapt that into an animated cartoon as I originally intended...I'm going to make a webcomic
 
(BTW, I still have a lot to learn on before that cartoon adaption ever happens)
... *Cricket noises*
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If you've been to the deeper parts of my gallery, you may find things that look like comics! I have tried and failed 3 times (at least) to make one to post here on DeviantART. Let me show you actually... (If you don't care about the following, scroll to the bottom. There is a cookie.)


This first image is page 4 of The White Lightning Project.  it never got past page 7.
 The premise is that an alien (who is later named "Kid") crash lands on Obaglora, a planet similar to earth, only with other aliens that have control over elements. A little girl named Penny finds Kid and they become friends, but must soon deal with an invading force of the Argen. Kid is also and Argen. In fact, Kid was specifically bred to be a superpowered warrior, so he, Penny, and a few friends he meet along the way, must stop the Argen invasion to defend his new home.
 The second image is a screenshot form a game I was working on in Gamemaker in my spare time. The story would have been simmilar, and I likely would have at least gotten a better prototype made if Gamemaker didn't keep doing weird things like reducing framerate to 2 fps no matter what is on screen... BTW, the game came first. I tried to adapt what was supposed to be a nice simple action platformer into some epic story...
 I canceled the comic because I had no idea how I was going to tackle the action scenes (what little there were), and that it was going to be drawn out with a lot of dialogue and filler with the way it was going. I just didn't think the way it was written matched with what I really wanted to do with the concept, which was originally a concept for a video game..
Oh. That third one is just because it's cute.I like showing that one off now and again. XD

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What about Orthum Quest? How about 3 pages... 5 if you count page 0 and the cover
Here was supposed to be a sort of Origin story to the lore of Planet "i." It was about how the Sun and Moon fought over control of the planet, so they each made a person to take over the planet... the Moon made Mizuki and the Sun made Haru. Yadda yadda stuff happens... Mizuki falls in love with Haru and togehter they find a magic crystal that heals and gives life. They then have children who help balance the feuding sun and moon by spinning the planet, giving both sides watch and custody over the new life. Haru and Mizuki must then separate to give the planet and it's moon the orbit needed to sustain life as we know it there. Mizuki pulls the moon across the planet, and Haru pulls the planet across the Sun.
Yadda yadda stuff happens... That is the main reason this one failed. I jumped the gun a bit and worked on the comic before fully developing the story... I wrote the sequence script along side the comic itself. That and because this was before there were many trees (there was A forest... A forest) on the planet, it would have also been very barren and uninteresting to look at. Green hills, maybe a bush, and the same 2 characters walking around over and over for many pages and panels as they talk about emotion and feeling and stuff? This stiory is something best left to a quick legend...
I have since re-worked the Orthum Quest title into a Subtitle for another comic I'll be getting to eventually.


This one was Kawaii Cafe... This is the only comic of it
The premise is that Cassandra Reddic, a college student in need of a summer job, is hired to work in a coffee shop themed around cuteness.
Reason I canceled this one originally was because I just couldn't think of good ideas to work with the premise at the time...I've thought about reviving this one actually, but nah. It'd be very short lived. I've re-worked Cassie and her would-be co-worker Julia into Gin and the Starboard Pirates. They're bar maidens at a soda shop the crew hang out at now and again. Keep an eye out for them when they eventually appear, I guess!
Hoo boy it's age really shows. This was still my first year of digital art and my first year on DA.


I want to bring your attention real quick to this one too... look at only the top one though. Clan of the Forgotten.
 I've mentioned that I'm going to make it a manga-esque comic a few times previously. I haven't even gotten started on it though...
 It starts a bunch of elves in a community for those society now neglect. the low-life thugs, the homeless workers replaced by others, those who contribute nothing to their society, and other such people. While the focus is on an Archer who rebelled against her CO for supposedly killing her little brother and an uneducated mage with ADHD, the background and side characters still have a major role.
 At this point the story is done, and I could probably work on it with enough confidence to see this one through to the end. but I'm not going to. Not yet. I've been deliberately holding off on this one.

     Mib is proud you made it this far! You can haz cookiez!

So what am I going to be doing differently with Gin and the Starboard Pirates?
First of all. Learning form my mistakes...
     No need for complex and epic stories. Keep things simple. Focus more on moments and smaller events without worry of exact continuity
     I've had at least a year and a half developing the characters, scenarios, and concepts in my spare time. I already have plenty I can work with that should last a good while
     I've already figured out the panel format I want for the webcomic, made a template, and will make more templates for when I need them... because maybe one day a comic will have 8 panels instead of 4, or have 4 wide panels, or 6 panels, or maybe just a big picture...
     I've got the first strip near completion. You won't see that for quite some time... probably a few weeks, maybe a couple months,  once I have a few more strips done... and have worked out a good work schedule, and release schedule... found a good webcomic hosting site to post the comic to as well... make some character bios and references... Refine Brandy's design as he still needs a bit of work... in fact refine everyone's design to include more detail...May need to make multiple verisons of the first strip with different visual styles to see which one works well...

In short. patience is needed before I release this webcomic!
 I still have a lot of work to do.