4-19-13 Massive Damage Part 2: Down

Massive Damage

Part 2: Down

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It bothers me that Erica is walking outside in the middle of January without a jacket... Weather is weird. I could say that and not acknowledge the fact that that's just another screw up from me. Recently, this is how I've been feeling about my mistakes in the past couple of pages

4-17-13 Massive Damage Part 2: Down

Massive Damage

Part 2: Down

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9-21-12 High School Party Part 3: Jenga!

High School Party

Part 3: Jenga!

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Eric is only showing protection for his sister. He's not bitter against Kevin or anything. He's just telling him what's up.

9-20-12 High School Party Part 3: Jenga!

High School Party

Part 3: Jenga!

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I common problem with going from a party, straight to the beginning of the next day is the question of "What else happened at the party?" The answer is a simple one. Nothing. After Kevin and Erica got romantic, Erica explains in panel 1 that Eric asked her if she wanted a ride home, to which she denied because she wanted to spend more time with Kevin. Now, the question you should be asking yourself is "Why did Eric leave without asking Erica how she was getting home?" and that is a question I have yet to find an answer for. Let's take that as a plot hole. 

As for chronology, a lot of people may be confused about how things went during the party. It's most told in chronological order, all within a couple of hours. 

- Kevin and Claire arrive at the party (Let's say 8:00)

- Eric and the group arrive (Let's say 8:30)

- They split up

- Claire kisses Kevin (as Eric and the group arrive)

- Eric and Mary are in the basement and Eric's spell goes off (about 8:50)

- Joel runs off on Liz (Same time as Eric's spell going off)

- Joel talks to Gwen

- Mary looks for Erica and runs into Sophie for the 1st time (During Joel's talk with Gwen)

- Kevin and Robin talk (About the same time that Eric's spell goes off)

- Mary finds Erica and brings her downstairs (About 9:10)

- Eric's makeover (About 9:30)

- Eric and Mary go upstairs/ Erica and Kevin leave downstairs

- Eric goes his own way and Liz cries to Mary (9:35)

- Joel asks Liz out and they kiss (same time as above)

- Sophie and mary make up (right after above, so about 9:45 at this point)

- Eric is hit on by Steve Steele (10:05)

- Mary and Eric talk/ Eric transforms back/ they kiss (10:15)

- Kevin and Erica look for Claire (9:35 - 10:00) 

- FInd Claire and they all make up/ Kevin and Erica kiss (10:20)

(NOT IN THE STORY)

- Eric and company leave (10:30)

- Erica and company leave (12:00, hence why she got home to find Eric sleeping)

9-19-12 High School Party Part 3: Jenga!

High School Party 

Part 3: Jenga!

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See the parallel? SEE IT!?

The spell check keeps telling me I spelled Jenga wrong. Stupid computer doesn't know how to spell Jenga. I'm spelling it right. I don't need a machine to tell me what to do. Anyways, there are multiple parallels in this comic page along with the first couple pages of HSP. If you figure it out, you get a gold star and if you don't notice that Eric's eyes are weird looking in panel 4, then you can earn my respect.

8-8-12 High School Party Part 2: Admire The Tower

High School Party

Part 2: Admire The Tower

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NEVER! We will never get a romantic moment between Eric and Mary. I forbid it.

8-7-12 High School Party Part 2: Admire The Tower

High School Party 

Part 2: Admire The Tower

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Hey! First commentary in a while. So it's pretty coincidental that I happen to end Part 1 on August 6th, my 5 month anniversary of the comic. Since part 1 took about a month to get through, and it wasn't even really that long compared to what I have planned for part 2, part 2 may take up to 2 months, so brace yourselves. 

8-1-12 High School Party Part 1: Stack The Blocks

High School Party 

Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Either of her lives

Technically, Erica has 3 lives, not 2. By circumstance, she has her life now, with Eric in normal comic continuity, she had her life in her own universe, and she shares memories with Eric. So I was wrong, she technically DOES have 3 lives. If you don't count sharing memories with Eric as a life then she has has two. 

7-31-12 High School Party Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Kevin's uh...

To be completely honest, Kevin in panel 2 is the exact way I should be drawing Kevin all the time. That is the 100% perfect character design for him. I have no clue why it turned out so good or why sometimes it turns out so horrible, but whatever right?

7-30-12 High School Party Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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I find that I'm going slower than normal with the comic. Usually I'd be in the middle/ close to the end of part 2 right now. I guess that's a good thing though. That means I'm trying to be effective with my storytelling and comedy. Like yesterday's page with the gag of Eric ditching Mary again. If I really needed to fast with this thing, then I could've easily excluded that from the story. On my estimate, I'd say we're done with part 1 in a week or so. That's when the story really gets good.

7-29-12 High School Party Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Will we ever see Eric and Mary have a romantic moment without Eric doing something stupid? Probably not. Eric is too much of a loose canon. I can't say if I love or hate when that happens. I do find it funny when Eric does something awkward and weird around Mary, but I also like it when they have a serious romantic moment. So who know what will happen next between them. I don't even know.

7-28-12 High School Party Part 1: Stack The Blocks

High School Party

Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Magic Stipulation

OoOoOoOoOoOo Do I spy some foreshadowing? Magic is a tricky subject to write about. I mean, you can pretty much do whatever you want when writing about magic, there's no rules. It's not like time travel where you have to write all about the mechanics and stipulations of it. Like the butterfly effect, you know how hard that is to write? One thing you do in your past heavily influences your future. Good rule, pain to write about... I may have to do a filler about that.

7-12-12 High School Party Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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School Discussion

A little disclaimer: the beeps in panel 4 are much different than the beeps from the alarm clock in page 1. These are beeps from a car. Joel can be very impatient.

7-11-12 High School Party Part 1: Stack The Blocks

High School Party

Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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I love the Wright Parents. My main inspiration for them are the parents from Fairly Odd Parents. Like, the Wright Parents aren't THAT bonkers, but they can still be looked at as exaggerated a bit. 

You can probably tell that this arc is moving rather slow. at least slower than Clone Arc was moving. This is because I've noticed in parts 1-4 of Clone Arc, we moved sort of fast and I thought a lot of it felt rushed when I could've expanded on some things. For example, there were a lot of things I left out from my original mapping of Clone Arc that I considered to be "deleted scenes." A example of that would be  in part 2 how I wanted to show a little bit of Gwen actually building the cloning device, or in part 4, before the big fight, I was going to have Evil Eric and Erica exchange a few words. I left those scenes out for reasons I can't remember. The bottom line is that there will be no more deleted scenes and everything that can be included will be included, even if that means having the arc slow down for a bit, even though that's unlikely. 

7-10-12 High School Party Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Oh Mr and Mrs. Wright, you guys are crazy. My sketch for today's page turned out so much better than the page itself. Specifically panel 4. Mr. Wright is odd looking, but in my sketch he was fine. It's all really weird.

7-9-12 High School Party Part 1: Stack The Blocks

High School Party

Part 1: Stack The Blocks

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Start of Clone Arc

If you haven't read Clone Arc, I'd suggest doing that before going any further with the story. 

Hey! We're on High School Party! Sure, page 1 seems kind of dull, but things doing really get awesome until part 2 anyway. Part 1 is just build up to what happens in part 2. I've noticed that my milk carton looks like a bottle of water. Hopefully people can use context clues to figure out that it's not water.

7-5-12 Clone Arc Part 5: Brand New Day

Clone Arc

Part 5: Brand New Day

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I don't know why I put Eric's transformation back to himself off camera. I think it was because of room constraints. Hey! We're almost done with the arc!

7-2-12 Clone Arc Part 5: Brand New Day

Clone Arc

Part 5: Brand New Day

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I like to call this page "Erica Explains it All." She literally does explain it all.

7-1-12 Clone Arc Part 5: Brand New Day

Clone Arc

Part 5: Brand New Day

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6-30-12 Clone Arc Part 5: Brand New Day

Clone Arc

Part 5: Brand New Day

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Hey! Brother sister relationship developing in which they laugh at each others mistakes.