Powerjeff

Author notes

Page 10

json

on Oct. 5, 2008

i know, i'm a couple days late. i had company this weekend from out of town. so i didn't get to finish the inks on this page until tonight. i also worked a lot on page 11….more on that at the end of this….

this page was originally just 2 panels….on two seperate pages. one of "karen" dragging jeff on the last panel of one page, and the next page of her screaming it's dinner time. i thought it would be better to draw out the scene and give jeff's date a little more depth. it creates character growth after all….

so…the next panel in the original comic i blew up to a full page. the original design was pretty good and i wanted to give it it's deserved justice…..unfortunatly, that justice is fucking time consuming! let me ellaborate:
so, at this point we all are aware that the "original powerjeff" comics were just one page shots/jokes. i then tried to tie them together into some sort of storyline where it made some semblance of sense. afterwards, it was so fun to do, that it became its own story. if you didn't know, now you do……well, once the "joke" took on a story life of its own, my art style and attention to detail did too…..and i put a lot of time and effort into most of the panels.
the next page is case in point. a giant mutated turtle in a pit with spikes and carnage everywhere. updating the pit design was NOT fun and i hop i pull it off……after the next 6 or pages, jeff goes back to class…..and THAT is where i want a flux capacitor to go back in time and kick my own ass for drawing a series 3 pages….that will ultimately have to be broken down into 6 pages for good story pacing….that have so MANY background jokes and details.

some of this level of detail of design found in these jokes will appear in the added additions to chapter 2…..i don't know if i can say they are that prominant in chapter 3. Jason, help me out here….