May 06
Walls. Blue/grey and smooth as a baby’s butt. That’s how we like our walls here in Sea3on, and I’m going to sell that design to the world!
Steven W says
just tell everyone he’s learning how to do backgrounds, don’t kill him
So please don’t kill our artist. He means well. Just.. punch him a few times so he starts to practice backgrounds more. Next week you can kill him though. Give him a bit more incentive ya know?
Onto other notes..Yes. Yes they are now out of Knothole. Confused? I was too. Blame Gojira on that one.
Who else can I blame…Oh, blame John for doing… I dunno for being Australian. Damn Australians!
Well looks like I’m the only awesome person this week. Whew, I got worried there a bit. You know all this blaming going around and all.
NEXT WEEK —> Background awesomeness and writer confusion! I just can’t wait!
Thanks as always,
Paul
I don’t care about the backgrounds as long as the characters look good, and I’ve got to say they look the best here! Awesome job! I especially love the last panel… ^_^
C’mon, chief, it can’t be THAT much of a leap to put the scene in Robotropolis at a point in time ahead of when we saw the team in Knothole, can it?
REALLY loving the character art here, by the way; saber just keeps improving. ^_^
@dragon Yeah, last panel is the fastest thing alive!!
@gojira007 That’s Paul for you. Personally, I think that the little leap was perfectly understandable, and it looks like out of a TV show.
Also I’d like to know something which I once saw in the forums: how many scripts are planned? I mean, is the idea to make just a 3rd season for SatAM or, if the time came, also a Sea4on?
thrid and last pannel are my favirts!! 🙂 ^^ i agree with dragon, screw the backgrounds and foucus on the charters, the backgrounds don’t need to be perfect but as long as we know what it is we’ll be alright…….GO SONIC!!! sorry little random today…
Do us all a favor, and DON’T make Season-3 last more than 13 chapters/episodes.
I have 2 reasons for this. (Reason #2 is more important)
Reason #1) — for those of us waiting for this season to come to a conclusion, it might get frustrating, ESPECIALLY since you only release 1 page a week.
Reason #2) — it’s already been implied by others that your comics are supposed to be considered canon…therefore, most of us want to read your chapters and pretend that this is the exact material that the show’s Season-3 was going to be about (IF the show wasn’t cancelled)….In other words, we want your comics to represent “what could’ve been the show”, and there’s no way we’re going to get that feeling if you just let your chapters stretch for as long as you can, because we know that the show’s creators wouldn’t have done that.
Even though you already said that you have lots of material that you want to do, I can’t be hard to combine/integrate all your ideas into 10 more chapters. Just make sure you know how to foreshadow and have multiple story-points happen [almost at the same time] and come up with reasons for why they happen this way.
It’s the same principle as writing an Oscar-worthy movie script, because the writer had to make sure all the plots/characters were developed before filming began.
Construct the entire plot/subplots of your next 10 chapters BEFORE you start drawing them.
Thanks for your time.
@JakeP o.O wtf? in this i will try and knock both or your reasons with what paul might say,,maybe (sorry if it sounds likeing trying to start a fight)
1:i know we all have to right to say what we want but telling someone what to do??? even paul dosen’t let me do that i can act like a totaly bicth! (wicth i think has gotton better lately…i haven’t really been to bad blowing up on paul lately so yeah me?) yeah it’s just one comic a week but it takes them forever to make that one i bet, two updates are usally the shorts i think…
2: ‘most of us want to read your chapters and pretend that this is the exact material that the show’s Season-3 was going to be about ‘ again WTF!? why you pulling that? i bet this is really what season three was or if it isn’t pretty damn close. sure they might of swicthed a word or two then and there so there not stealing the idea or something like that but like i said i bet this is pretty damn close…
in the end of this bicthing fit you (and i bet paul) thinks this is, just leave the length to them, paul knows what he’s doing and so do everyone else they know how this thing is going to end before it’s even close and they know if it needs to be change or not…this thing will end up on a good note…if not *snippers appear* i think we got the idea….
I think the main thing my friend Jake here is trying to say is not to drag it on. Some comics, especially those which should only have a plot that go from A to B try to drag the plot and story past B. The normal case for this would be the creators, authors etc not wanting to end it.
I will tell you that our story does and will have a end. Everything must end at one point, and Sea3on is no exception to that rule. HOWEVER just because we have a end in mind doesn’t mean that we know exactly how long it will take to get there. Sea3on will continue as long as it takes in till our story is told. We have a long road ahead of us, and plenty to tell and share. However yes, our road will meet its end one day.
But hell guys, we are only on chapter 3. Trust me, we aren’t leaving any time soon.
The main thing I was saying, Paul, is that you should make sure your story ends at Chapter 13, because each of the TV-show’s seasons had 13 episodes….As I mentioned before, most of us want to pretend that your “Sea3on” is exactly how the show would’ve been done by Ben Hurst and the rest of the show’s producers. (That’s why there are other comments praising your Sea3on by calling it “canon.”)….If your story doesn’t end at Chapter 13, then we won’t be able to think of Sea3on as “what the show could’ve been,” because we know that Hurst & Co. would’ve designed *their* Sea3on to last only 13 episodes, just like the previous seasons.
You said (in a comment from an earlier chapter) that you want to drag your Sea3on for as long as possible, because you have a lot of story material that you want to work on….My point is that you shouldn’t use that as an excuse to make Sea3on go any further than Chapter 13.
You said you don’t know exactly how long it will take to get to your ending, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find out. If you have so much story material that you THINK it will last more than 13 chapters, then you should start taking notes.
After you finish Chapter 3—and BEFORE you start drawing any pages for Chapter 4—sit down with your partners and say something like “Okay, we finished Chapter 3, and we only have 10 chapters to finish the story…” Start setting up the events for EACH of the last 10 chapters, so that you know what’s going to happen in each chapter.
As I said before, it shouldn’t be difficult to put all your ideas into just 10 more chapters. It only requires intellectual effort….Just make sure you know how to foreshadow, and try to think of different ways to have multiple events happen in EACH episode.
Once again, thanks for your time.
Will there be a Sea4on? And maybe a Sea5on?
Haha, I didn’t even notice the background thing before it was mentioned. You mentioned it Paul, and now everyone notices, can we blame you for that? XD
I told about a Sea4on because I heard the rumor that SatAM was supposed to be four seasons long. I don’t know.
I also wonder if the Sea3on script is going to be influenced by Archie’s stories: I mean, the original Sonic miniseries (the first StH Archie comics) were published in November 1992, based (as I’m told, I’m not sure) on concept art for SatAM, which was in process. SatAM first aired in September 1993.
So if Archie was influenced by the developing ideas for SatAM, why couldn’t SatAM’s third season be influenced by Archie’s comics, then in print? The comics take several episodes (Cry of the Wolf) as canon.
Summarizing the planet’s backstory and the origin of the Mobians, Robotnik and the Great War could be great.
@Ultimate Hammer Bro
I’m pretty sure I read that it was supposed to befour seasons long in Ben’s notes. But with the whole back story thing, considering that if they are told, they will probably be out of the way of the actual story line of the FF, but that would be interesting material for the shorts between Chapters if Paul want to do something like that.
@LegacyElite84
Oh my, hadn’t thought that.
Two shorts: one detailing Robotnik’s backstory (at the point when humans were already revealed in the main comic) and another explaining the planet’s past.
LOL
Sonic waits for no instruction.
Poor Sal… :XD
Personally, I think that the supposed need to fit the story into only thirteen chapters is simply psychological on JakeP’s part. Sure, it would be a nice touch, but what’s ultimately important is the integrity of the story, not how many chapters it has for tradition’s sake.
In short, if it’s a good enough comic, I don’t flipping CARE how many chapters it has. (Unless, of course, I think that it doesn’t have nearly enough… in which case, it’s probably a VERY good comic!)
@Kate Vunza
Aye; precisely. The 13-part formula is dictated by the broadcasting company, anyway; as they buy a certain amount of episodes per show (usually in increments of 13); then the writers restructure them into seasons (where the 13 or 26 episode formula is followed) depending on how many episodes per season there are.
However, citing the 13-episode formula doesn’t quite follow with a comic. A Manga, for example, can have a run of 100+ chapters; and several chapters can be condensed and squeezed into single episodes of the Anime. (For example; Akagi: 111 chapters of Manga -> 26 Episodes. XXXHolic: 213 Chapters -> 37 Episodes.) The counter argument, of course, is the difference between West and East; but the idea is still rather sound, as Comics are often limited by the number of pages per issue, thus extending the run of a particular story arc.
You guys should make as many chapters as needed. I’ll gladly read them ^^
Yeah, if it gets longer, we can always say “SatAM did like Spiderman TAS” (two seasons of 13 eps, and the third one was 26, if I’m not wrong)