Yep, another silent film style flashback is coming… This time, it’s only 3/4 of a page (a full page if you include the previous 1/4 of a page), and shows Karter a few years after the first flashback (brining us to 1994 for those of you counting at home). At this point, he’s wheelchair-bound. Why? Well, it has to do with the police grenades in 1991. It’s not so much that his legs don’t work as it is the respirator system you see mounted to the back of his chair. Anyway, this is the last flashback of this issue, though there should be at least one more in the second issue to bring us more up-to-date.

A few months ago, a great comic creator named Jason Brubaker (creator of ReMIND) started up a site called Making Comics. It’s a great site full of useful tips about the comicking process.  The sit is still in its infancy but already, there are about 100 posts, each with useful information about a particular step in the creative process. Why am I rambling on about this? Well, because I wrote an article (the first of many, hopefully) for the site last week. It hasn’t been posted yet but next week, I’ll be sure to link it over. It’s all about my inking process: what tools I use, how I use them, and why I use them. Not exactly the most exciting topic for the average reader but for those of you interested in how comics get created, it might be worth a look.

Oh, and I’m shooting for a new goal with Variables. I’ve been making my once-a-week page updates regularly for awhile and the pace is just too slow. With how much story there is to tell in Variables, I’ll never get through it all at 52 pages a year. I tried 3 pages every two weeks but at the time, that was just too much work considering each page takes me about 20 hours now. So I’m going to try to add another page every third week. That pushes me to the point of an issue being completed every four months; that’s still too slow but at least it’s a step forward from the 5+ months per issue schedule I’m currently on.

Anyway, that’s all for today. Want to see the issue in progress of Variables? Well, then click here.

Share this page: