mr Sandman

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Abt_Nihil

on Nov. 20, 2007

Now one reason to be unsatisfied with the story is that I didn't plan as much as I should have, and that the story itself changed as I went along. I didn't even write the pages in the correct order, rather writing/drawing a "skeleton" of the story first and then inserting pages where I felt they were needed. So I wrote down certain scenes which came to my mind and later figured out what I'd have to add to get to those scenes and to make them plausible and understandable. So I ended up adding more and more pages as I went along… until I was convinced someone COULD understand the story if he or she only tried hard enough :-D

Accordingly, these first two pages were not the first scene that was written. They were inserted when I saw the need for establishing a general theme before plunging into the storyline.

This page was part of the "original" 30-page-skeleton (which was a project for my art class shortly before I graduated from school - German schools take 13 years at most, then you get the best possible graduation and proceed to university). Its text was rewritten for the so-called Director's Cut, which was the final 76-page-version (and which I worked on in the year between school and university, 2001).

The previous page has been modified slightly - Mr Ludwig was put more into the center, the black space has been reduced. And I rewrote the monologue a second time when I took new scans from the originals in 2006 and lettered them anew. I should add that it's still very close to the original in both theme and phrasing. This page's text has also been rewritten slightly. The "man killing man in the name of god"-part is a Zeitgeist-product which wasn't really present in 2000 when I wrote the original.

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