20120831, 23:44 – Not gonna make the incept-of-production anniversary. The first DCR strip was posted August 31, 2012 – I can’t remember if the post date was retconned or not. I do know that the first drawn strip went up 2005.09.03, and as the placeholder cover I’m cooking up at the moment technically has some line art in it, I …
A South Jersey punk, a genetically engineered man conceived on another planet and a former Soviet officer who’s now the head of the local chapter of a galaxy-wide secret society drive a couple of Urals into a lake bed in a parallel universe, and the South Jersey punk says… Long form of “A priest, a rabbi and a nun walk …
Greg’s assignment to the Hemera is a direct result of Thad sinking a chainsaw into Beef’s neck. Voice Procedure is not exact. Given the overall quality of Heirotus signal hardware (they are a market leader in communications equipment) such language is typically used only when comms get hairy. Signal distortion in panel one, James is saying “Line of sight blocked …
Jason Whitehouse, wrapping up some AV work that will generate footage crucial to the events of DCR.1. Also Drugs Are Bad You Shouldn’t Do Drugs and the ease-in towards DCR.1 production values – more of that on the next page. Also Aeon’s first chronological appearance! Normally I set up and process scenes either all at once or in multiple pages …
20100201 (5) – (also 20100202) – Done at 0111; on the phone with xeno and have been since roughly 2230 or so. Blurb to follow. Right. On the phone with xeno until 0310 in the morning. My phone died (first time I ran the iPhone battery dry), his internet was turned off, and then his phone died. Five-plus hour telecommunications …
20100121 (10) – Replaced the Bauhaus logo with PISSPOWERASSCHRIST. In the ATC universe, PPAC is a Belgian-based industrial band that formed in New Jersey in the late 70s and has never toured the US for “tax reasons.” Relentlessly obscure, anti-commercial and available through mail order only, they’re right up Whitehouse’s alley. They’re also the only fictional ATC band that has …
20100121 (12) – PPAC transplant over the old Bauhaus panels – seven and ten. If I were doing these as strips for the first time, I’d probably work it into panels three, five and nine…. but I think that a straight match-up is Good Enough ™. 20100131 (6) – Rewritten, and at a much faster pace than anticipated. In addition …
2010127 (1) – Coffee mug fix. 20100131 (5) – A quickie! Very minor script adjustments, type re-bubbling… only one tail. It’s all heavy lifting from here – 2-7 have moderate to high dialogue density and a good amount of rewriting. I have about forty minutes before I have to start with the showering and the dinnering and the leaving – …
20100130 (5) – The “It’s a natural musk” line was originally slated for panel five, but that made panel four feel totally superfluous. So it was moved up there, didn’t fit, and wound up straddling 3 and 4 instead. It’s a problem with retroscripting – one you’ll see every so often in The Dualist. It’s ugly, but it doesn’t happen …
20100121 (9) – I’m friends with both Mike and Dave of Crayon Death – I mentioned using the CD logo to Mike at one point and he (if memory serves) was cool with it, so that stays. Submachine, however, I don’t know anybody from – so the fictional band “Murder Booth” has been substituted. Thanks to mdxi and Band Names …
20100130 (7) – Rewritten, with minor art tweaks and some post-scripting dialogue adjustment. I gotta make sure this page smells pretty – my tendency to Mention Important Stuff Only Once means an error here could have long-lasting repercussions. In this case the rescript has been revised from indicating that Whitehouse’s previous incarnation (Aleph) was running video to indicating that Aleph …
20100121 (16) – Removed Salon Nu Vo logo from panels 9 and 12. 20100130 (8) – A couple of minutes into the 31rst, actually – but almost all of the work was done on the 30th, so. Rewrite-wise… wordier. So. Much. Wordier. Not as wordy as the next page, but man – look at those GIANT PILES OF WORDS. At …
20100131 (1) – THIRTY TWO lines of dialogue plus two time stamps plus two sound effects. THIRTY SIX individual chunks of text. For a single page, that’s a lot. Gibber, splutter, ellipsis. Two things. 1. The rescript changes bits of this page significantly, and this page has already been changed significantly – venue anonymized, line art scrubbed, then tweaked… 2. …
20100130 (3) – Rewrite. No major adjustments otherwise, and not a whole lot to say on the subject. The oven should be warm enough to start cooking tater tots in a few minutes… which means lunch either during or after the next page! Woo! 20101225 – Original page metadata: Ghost ninjas from outer space, fat geeks in mecha suits, and …
2010127 (6) – Got the re-script done before the State of the Union address, came back to cleanup and whatnot as the GOP responder calls the US medical system the “best in the world.” Uh huh, right. Obama can speech – this dude sounds like he’s got a lobbyist’s arm up his ass, Hensoning him like a cheap hand puppet. …
2010127 (2) – Minor fixes to panel two – lightened the silhouette on the right, added a highlight to Nameless Girl’s boot. The original printed as a solid block of A Leg Vanishing Into Some Dude… I figure if a moderately expensive Epson can’t handle it, I should expect the same of any future print process. 2010127 (5) – Rewrite …
20100130 (1) – Turned off the “break” title in panel one earlier this week. Unlike the previous back-and-forth on ‘trolls,’ keeping this bit would technically double up the ‘break’ section titles to include ‘break’ (beginning in the basement bathroom) and ‘break’ (being this page). While DCR pages are being listed as “chapter -number-” instead of by scene, I’d rather avoid …
20100121 (17) – Removed the contents of a billboard. 2010127 (3) – Added a label to the gin bottle in panel four. A grayscale version of the Spagnola Dry Gin With Orange logo used in chapter five scene one of The Dualist. Also made a few cleanup tweaks and applied the new script – making this the first page to …
20100120 (2) – Initial assembly from strips 125 – 128. 20100126 (4) – Rewritten, re-lettered. Flows quite a bit better now, I think. Also, stripped the Highmark logo off of Fifth Avenue Place in panel eleven – it wasn’t there in 1997. UPMC getting ugly all over the USX also complicates the project – though that’s something I can work …
20100120 (3) – Initial assembly from strips 129 – 132. 20100126 (3) – Re-lettered with minor dialogue tweaks, now specifically referencing events of the previous chapter. A simpler time – when the bridge on sixth street was still known as the Sixth Street Bridge. 20101225 – Original strip metadata: Strip 129, 20080508 – End of pre-canned launch run. Every strip …