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I don’t know why but Crusader and Kat comics tend to be a bit shorter than others. I don’t plan it this way it just happens.

I like writing Crusader and Kat comics. Crusader is a good straight man, but he also has his unique brand of the crazies. This script also went through several versions. One ended in a star wars joke, in another Crusader had put a hornets nest in Kat’s mailbox.

I prefer this version over all. I like how Kat looks, I always enjoy drawing Kat. She is probably the most interesting character to draw though Hannah and Smic are also fun. It’s odd though, that the original three are the most boring. Kat also is so different from how she was originally designed it is a bit weird to think about. In those grand old days of course J&C was still going to have an EPIC PLOT (say it with a loud, booming british accent). Now J&C is about 50% gags, 30% soap opera,  12% insanity, 3% injokes you don’t get, 2% injokes you do get, 1.75% jokes you never see and the rest of it is recycled Chinese Newspapers.

Sometimes I wish I was writing an EPIC PLOT, but it just doesn’t suit what I want to do for Jayden and Crusader. I wrote a comic called Disturbing the Peace which had an EPIC PLOT (I’m still looking for an artist for it, 2 issues of 30 pages are already written) and was also funny and I also wrote Privateer which had an EPIC PLOT and was less funny and I also wrote Cassandra Model Academy which had an EPIC PLOT and no humour at all. The problem with all of those is, it’s not fun to just stick with a script. With J&C I can just go with the flow. For every 3 pages I draw 2 pages don’t get drawn. And that suits me fine, if I stick rigidly to a script I get bored of it and never do anything. For 3 months back in early 08, you old readers will remember, no Jayden and Crusader was drawn at all. And before that, in late 07, about 70% of the stuff I was doing was filler, or was Smic stuff unrelated to the storyline I gave up on and still haven’t truly finished. (new readers should note that a lot of the filler was removed from the archives when I went from Drunk Duck to this new site, so if you think there wasn’t much in the archive… it was pretty bad).

I think most Star Trek fans will agree to the arguments put forward here. Picard was a better captain of a starship but Kirk was a more heroic character. In the tri-force of the original series that’s the spirit he embodied, heroism. Spock was logic, McCoy was passion and Kirk was heroism. With Picard, he’s just a straight captain. He’s heroic in his own way, but he is first and foremost a captain. A bit like Hornblower.

Of course, that just invites all the Star Trek fans to explain how I’ve got it completely wrong, but if you do want to convince me I’m wrong I’ll just ignore you so it’s rather pointless.

Weird. On Monday for a 6 panel comic I wrote barely anything while today for a 3 paneller I’ve written about 700 words. Weird…

To people confused by the J&C house’s geography this scene takes place in the foyer or hallway of the J&C house. The walls of the hallway are blue while the wall of the doorway is cream, as shown here. This is was established during comic #68 back in May last year and cemented in the Jayden’s parents arc of July/August last year. I can’t be bothered to find links to that right now, feel free to dig them out.

Usually I stick a painting or a ‘photograph’ up on the walls when they’re in the hallway but I thought in this comic they’d just be distracting.

I might have a vote incentive up later today. To those who read through to this point I salute you.

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