Words but no drawings...
Ok, no drawings will be accompanying my latest comic decision... My decision? I'm changing it up again. I'm losing the remote controlled boy. Why? I've been trying to write the jokes for him, but it just hasn't been working... So I've decided... Adam is no longer remote controlled. I'm not going to redesign the character, and I plan on keeping the basic concept of a main character with an internal struggle. The change though, is that instead of being remote controlled, he's going to be part robot, or half-android... The stuggle is between this logic-based side of him, and the illogical dreamer that he tends to be.
I'm going to change up his family as well... Originally, I had planned on giving Adam a standard mother and father. Then when I decided he was half android (a cyborg I guess, but I don't like that term...seems kinda menacing) I though maybe his mom was an android, but I thought the suggestion that his dad was fornicating with an android might be kinda weird, so instead his dad will be a freelance scientist, and the suggestion will be that his dad made him that way (or maybe he was in an accident or something... I don't know yet, still working on it.) I thought maybe he'd have a brother as well... A robot that's been programmed to believe that he's a human boy. He knows that he's a robot, but his programming keeps telling him that he isn't... so he constantly tries to fit in with the other kids. He's more of a side character, so I'll see if he works out.
I think this weirder set-up fits better with the super-villain grandpa... but I'm hoping to portray it more like a dysfunctional home life than anything else...
I realize I'm putting a whole lot of thought into the back story and the set-up. I also realize that most people will not really be aware of all the work that goes into it, considering how small a space I have to deliver a joke within. Regardless, I don't view this as a wasted effort, but rather as a crucial foundation to help accomplish my goal of creating a comic strip that's more than just a gag a day... I'm trying to really create a believable world. Or as believable as possible for a family with a super-villain grandfather, a freelance scientist father, and two kids that combined only make up 1/2 of a human boy... Did I mention it takes place in the future?
I'm going to change up his family as well... Originally, I had planned on giving Adam a standard mother and father. Then when I decided he was half android (a cyborg I guess, but I don't like that term...seems kinda menacing) I though maybe his mom was an android, but I thought the suggestion that his dad was fornicating with an android might be kinda weird, so instead his dad will be a freelance scientist, and the suggestion will be that his dad made him that way (or maybe he was in an accident or something... I don't know yet, still working on it.) I thought maybe he'd have a brother as well... A robot that's been programmed to believe that he's a human boy. He knows that he's a robot, but his programming keeps telling him that he isn't... so he constantly tries to fit in with the other kids. He's more of a side character, so I'll see if he works out.
I think this weirder set-up fits better with the super-villain grandpa... but I'm hoping to portray it more like a dysfunctional home life than anything else...
I realize I'm putting a whole lot of thought into the back story and the set-up. I also realize that most people will not really be aware of all the work that goes into it, considering how small a space I have to deliver a joke within. Regardless, I don't view this as a wasted effort, but rather as a crucial foundation to help accomplish my goal of creating a comic strip that's more than just a gag a day... I'm trying to really create a believable world. Or as believable as possible for a family with a super-villain grandfather, a freelance scientist father, and two kids that combined only make up 1/2 of a human boy... Did I mention it takes place in the future?
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