Pokemon Nickel

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- An Errand For Elm (#2- Getting Around to It)

LupaLynn

on Jan. 18, 2006

Wow, thank you for all the comments. I was quite surprised to find so much feedback, having expected no one to find this comic (or find it remotely interesting). I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who finds starting a comic to be the hardest part.

Darkside: While drawing is what I'd list as my favorite hobby, but that doesn't mean I /can/ do it. I'm currently working on a drawn comic that I hope to put on Drunkduck soon, but I want to get ahead several pages before that happens. Since I'm so unsatisfied with everything I draw, my drawn comics tend to suffer looong droughts with no updates and me hating the thought of them being online.

KevinClifford: I fully agree with you. It's hard not to follow some cliches when starting a video game-based sprite comic. If I recall, the anime even started out something like this (my thinking about that while writing this page is why there's that stupid Pokemon battle on TV….) It'll be a few more pages before I'll be able to overcome this problem, as following the game means following most of the Pokemon comics out there. (As my lame excuse for justification, the GSC games started out similar to this, with Oak sleeping in depending on how you set the time.) And I'm a notorious overuser of the word 'and,' especially as a trail-off word or where it doesn't belong (such as at the beginning of this sentence.)

CCS1989: It's the same for me. There's this strange thing about Pokemon games that keep pulling me back into their world just when I think I've escaped. They were my introduction to the RPG genre, which is now my favorite….

To Everyone Else: Thank you for your kind comments. I really am undeserving.

(Perhaps I should reply to comments in the page's comments next time rather than waste space here…. Oh, well.)

Sorry, this page isn't that much better than the first one. The dialogue still feels shaky, and I'm still following those cliches that I really ought to break away from. I'm working on the development of Gold's character. I worked out the sides of his personality and his motivations (which aren't many) at work last night (stupid holidays make the mail flow slow…), but I'd already written and put this page together so that doesn't show much here.

The 'Mom' sprite doesn't look good at all from the front…. Why must her hair be so complicated? For Sunday's page, I have to make the sprites for Elm and Kris…. I'm pretty sure Elm will be easy, and I'll try my best not to mess up Kris' hair like I did on her profile sprite. It's not as bad as Gold's mom's, but it still sticks out strangely.

Once again, I've managed to write a lot more here than originally intended… and I completely missed whatever point I was planning to write about (along with forgetting entirely what that was.) Er, if you've had the attention span to read this far, you get a cookie. Sorry for boring you with mindless rambling….