“…and get moving.” Moving, indeed!
Doesn’t Kain look pissed in that last panel. You don’t think he’s going to do something… stupid… do you? What exactly could he do? Try to knock Spit out with a shovel? Or maybe just wait for his moment and push Spit over the next waterfall that comes along? Hey, this is fun; use this text space to encourage wanton speculation on how the story will progress. Here’s how it shouldn’t progress… “Kain scowls until he passes out from hunger or delirium.” Thankfully that’s not what it says in the script.
Believe me, I am trying to parcel out the exposition in small, easily-digested chunks. Today, for example, we get that Kain really, really wants to go the other way from where they’re headed (and Spit, as one could imagine, doesn’t give a damn).
Interestingly, I’ve been re-examining how this “Tunnel Vision” multi-issue story is structured, and trying to find some room to play around a bit more. I knew going into this story that it would be starting in the middle of the plot, and that the web-audience would need some catch-up. And, I knew that there would be some longer-term stuff I wanted to build towards, that would help define Kain in ways that needed to happen (if I was going to tell his story much longer which, it seems, I will be). But what I hadn’t entirely considered was how the every-five-days pacing of online installments would affect the reading (and writing) of a story that was intended to be much longer than my regular 24 (or so) pages of an issue. What I find myself wishing I could do, now that I’m in the middle of it, is provide much denser chunks of story in these small installments, so that with at least every fifth or sixth installment, you (the audience) would walk away with SOMEthing self-contained and satisfying. Which I guess would mean short stories, as opposed to the longer plot I’ve begun.
Well, trying to change the direction of a story already underway… it leaves me looking a little like Kain here: sorry Charlie, but this is the road we’re on; you’d best get used to it! “If we ever let you go, you can come back and try it again.” All I can say is, I’ll try to find the fun stuff I can show you along the way… because, like Kain, I’ll be looking for every opportunity to get to where I want to go… but until I do, it’s kind of a shlep.
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