Hidden benedfit #207 of publising your own webcomic; I can make changes wherever, and whenever I like. My comic “An Elven Council” was disapointing for me on many levels. The writing seemed stilted. The drawing was … well … not very well thought out and the concept as a whole migrated from acerbic to funny without retaining any of the power of either.
I draw these ideas from personal experience or stray thoughts or as the results of highly improbable creative calculations unbound from scientific ciphering or a logical thought process. Which is my way of saying that sometimes they pop into my head.
After a week of sitting in meetings where self serving auditory verbosity seemed to be the rule of the day, I penciled this idea where elves sit in endless self-perpetuating committee meetings that go nowhere for the sole purpose of making the heads of those committees look important.
The bitterness of those meetings carried through to the comic. After reading it, my loving wife said that the comic was just mean spirited. Which is not to say that all of my comics need to be funny, but that somethings are fun to read and somethings are not. So in an effort to move it in a different direction I grabbed at elves, which led to cookies, and sewed the two ideas together.
In the end I did not like the frankenstein monster that I built. So I have re-written the piece to be smooth over some of the rougher spots and try to re-integrate the funny.
I promise … I am done diddling with it. Almost. Pretty sure.
And yes … the hallow / hollow is intentional and don’t even get me started on the Kheiblah-Ur.
