Wiigii!
on October 27, 2014 at 12:01 amThe penultimate new page!
When these new pages first started, I wondered aloud why the Sal/Tony relationship was a secret. Since then, I’d remembered that the reason was that it was kind of retconned in! When I wrote the original story, I hadn’t yet decided that Sal and Tony were an item, and so I guess I tried to smooth it all in later by saying it was a secret affair kind of thing. But whoof, does it complicate writing the climax of this, with that knowledge. It should be doing all sorts of things to Sal, and I tried to put those touches in without derailing the rest of the story, and who knows if I succeeded or not. But a casualty of this was the handful of strips where Sal “rescues” Joe from being recruited by SEMME. She still has to do it, obviously, since that has to happen, but depicting it as part of the action following the end of the Big Fight At The End would really throw a wrench in the whole “Sal should be friggin’ destroyed” thing. Plus, since the mission statement of this redraw exercise was “let’s tell as stand-alone a story as possible,” having Joe suddenly show up and be momentarily important would be some awful record scratch on the pacing. “Who the fuck is this guy?” everyone will ask. And so Sal still does it, but it’s offpanel and merely implied.
That’s the best way to do things that need to happen but get in the way of the story, by the way. Just say they happened.
Don’t quote me on this.
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The Sal/Tony relationship was a retcon? Huh. I never noticed.
Show, don’t tell (except when showing is even worse than telling)
There are no hard-and-fast rules of storytelling. I’d definitely say that it’s okay to leave actions implied.
This would happen to be one of the times when showing is worse than telling, yes.
Ok, I won’t quote you, but I might imply that you said it off panel.
This is my last serenaaade! x12
13.
Hey Jason how about instead of making fun catch frazes you can try and comfort Sal, I mean now is a good opportunity.
“That’s not a word. ‘Dead’ is a word. It’s an adjective. For instance, I could say ‘Tony is dead’.
Here’s another word: ‘love’. In the past tense, it becomes ‘loved’. For example, “Sal loved Tony, and now he is dead.
Oh, hey Sal”.
It’s a difficult thing to know how close to get to someone who’s just lost a loved one when you’re obviously attracted to her. No one wants to be a vulture. It’s double-hard when the someone is Sal, whose boundaries are not easy to navigate at the best of times.
Yes. It requires tact, candor… and brevity. And this is why Jason just shakes the griever’s hand and goes with “Well, good luck.”
Well Sal , good luck dealing with that shit then
The boss:Thirteen people died, including pople you know from the lab, and my son, wich was killed to save your life. So now there’s space for you in the team
Walky:WIIGII!
Big Boss McHenry’s “Hm” in panel 2 shows he knows probably more about Alan Rees than he’s willing to admit.
This is strangely reminiscent of a debriefing scene at the end of LoEG vol.1 which had a similar bit with a Head of M.I.5 not wishing to acknowledge sensitive information.
Ooooh, Sal’s all shadowy. The drama tag remains discarded.
12 casualties, because Sal is a massive jerk.
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“Wiigii”…?
It’s a weird in-joke about a typo.