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Welcome back Loonies! Let's just get this out of the way: The first panel has all the stiffness of a high school production of 'Waiting For Godot.' Furthermore, Dr. McBee looks terrible in the second panel and Jason's face is a bit scrunchy in the third panel. BUT, the fourth panel, I can't find much fault there, I like it (Though Dr. Bannister is slightly walleyed). I'm also partial to the final frame. There was a lot of space to play with there and I was able to put some big rips in to remind everyone that Chandra Base is falling apart. The problem remains though, I never took the time to get enough detail into the pages.
This brings me to the issue of QUALITY CONTROL. Sometimes, for me at least, when I've started a project I feel there's some kind of drive to finish it at a breakneck pace, as if it were a race. I speed through the project blindly, hoping on hope that the final package will be good enough so that everyone will ignore any inadequacies. This is obviously wrong. If there's one major lesson I've learned over the last year it's this: Take your time with all that you do. Don't let it out the door until it's trimmed, polished and sewn up tight. There's this quote, I don't know, maybe I'm misquoting it but I can't find the thing on the internet. It's from The Fountainhead By Ayn Rand, the protagonist, Roark says to another character: "My failures go into the trash, whereas yours end up on the wall." I could be way off base here with the wording or attribution, someone correct me if I am. Anyway, I always liked this quote because it summed up a beautiful work ethic, to never settle for second rate work from your own hands.
Of course that doesn't apply to Chandra. In some kind of masochistic way I want this in the public eye so that I'm accountable to showing you something better. And I can get feedback on what didn't work here when I was making this graphic novel. Sure, I'm plenty critical on myself, but I want to hear from others as well. So, chime in!
Yeah, The Fountainhead is divisive, but come on, it's a cultural and philosophical touchstone, read it if you haven't!
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