I’m sorry to report that I missed an important personal deadline I had set a few weeks ago. That is, finishing all the foregrounds on all pages of Volume I prior to starting work. sadly, I’m still a few pages away.

Part of the problem was that I planned all along to have an 80 page comic. Well, it’s going to be closer to 100 pages.

As both the artist and writer, I’ve often been adding frames that provide a little more depth to the characters. Plus, as I’m yet to learn, fight scenes never go as smoothly as you plan them.

For instance, Sigmund Freud is smashing someone in the face with a chair on page 86. That wasn’t planned, but I thought it was important during a major point of growth for one of the characters.

But the lead up to this actually takes a page worth of frames… Otherwise you wouldn’t have the foggiest clue as to what’s going on.

It’s really a positive thing if you think about it though. Being both artist and writer, I can make sure the comic book is done right and expresses everything I want to convey on both the surface and below the surface.

I still plan on releasing The MSPaint Comic before Christmas. All missing this deadline means is that I’m going to be losing my weekends until it’s done.

Thankfully, it’s a pixellated labor of love.