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Prologue - Page 7: Suzannah and Johnny - by kenisu3000

Prologue - Page 7: Suzannah and Johnny




kenisu - #07
Here, we get to meet three of my original characters: George and Maria's son, Johnny (I guess if I had to give him an age, I'd say about five), Maria's sister Suzannah, and James, who was mentioned on Page 3.
I knew that since George and Maria had a legacy that HAD to have been laid down BEFORE the abduction, then they must have had a child that had been perhaps overlooked in the kidnapping. To emphasize this, I gave them a son, designed him the way I draw Ninten (just with brown hair and newsie-style clothes), and I made it so that during the abduction, he had been out visiting his aunt Suzannah. Also, note the continued use of British dialect: Johnny refers to his mother as "mum".
At first I wanted the next page after the George-and-Maria scream and the shattering-of-the-eyeglasses to be where Suzannah brings Johnny home, to find the house completely abandoned. Instead, I realized there would need to be some more introduction to these characters, and maybe some interaction with others before they discovered the awful truth. That's how James became more than just a fleeting mention made by George. So, I threw in some more character establishment, and the "Big Discovery" was shifted to Page 8.
I made James to resemble the typical old farmer, jaded by the "young whipper-snappers these days", and I gave him a corn field. Corn fields are great if you want to write something scary. Also, there's a little nuance which I don't think was made clear enough: James' home is the 1906 equivalent of the house in 1988 of the fat guy who says his house was torn apart by a poltergeist.



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kenisu3000 Chapter 1 - Page 34: The Main Course
kenisu - #34
I think I might have been hungry when I wrote that "appetizer" line of Ninten's. Speaking of food, the orange-and-tan coloring on the dollhouse on the very bottom of the page makes me hungry for a Peanut Cheese Bar. BOING!
4/19/07 0.00
kenisu3000 Chapter 1 - Page 35: Shut Up
kenisu - #35
I know plenty of households where the children are put in time out if they use naughty language like "shut up".
I looked at this after I finished it and I realized that Minnie's keeping her composure quite well through all this craziness. Whatever.
All I know is, I had been chomping at the bit to get out of Ninten's room, and now I'm already chomping at the bit to get out of Mimmie's Room! I hereby dub this room Purple Hell.
5/5/07 0.00
kenisu3000 Chapter 1 - Page 36: Kreepy Kewpie and the Son of Lampy
kenisu - #36
...I honestly don't have anything to say here. I suppose this is one of those "in-betweener" pages.
5/12/07 0.00
kenisu3000 Chapter 1 - Page 37: Ninten Takes Responsibility
kenisu - #37
It wasn't until I started this page when I realized that the Tattered Bat Ninten's been carrying around is in his hand in some panels... and not there in others. The first time I screwed up was on the last page, when the door slams behind him and Minnie. And here in the first panel, I guessed he just must have... switched it to his left hand so that he could use his inhaler. Yeah.
5/27/07 0.00
kenisu3000 Chapter 1 - Page 38: Raising the Roof
kenisu - #38
Finally, Mick starts acting like a dog.
6/26/07 0.00

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