WIP Comic Update - "Respite" (3) (Patreon)

Welp. I know I said I was going to try and update the comic more regularly, but since it's been a while (again), I decided I'd fill you guys in on what's been keeping me busy with this thing.

Basically, I've been considering making the worldbuilding more clear by having narration over the panels, which involved re-arranging them. But as I went on, I had an idea on a new way of introducing the comic that might be more character-focused. ...Which ended up involving writing another outline, which in and of itself has it's own roadblocks.

So, I'm a little bit uncertain about things at the moment. There's a lot going on in this world I've built, and the main trouble is that I don't know how much of it to reveal, or how much I should explicitly "tell" through dialogue without it getting too boring. Not only that: I don't even know if I should "tell" it at all: maybe I should stick to the dialogue-less scenes that I've already drawn...

Anyways, it's a real mess, but hopefully it's a little insightful for you guys. I'm still very new to making comics, so I'm learning just as much as you might be.

Regardless, thanks for sticking around and helping me via the Patreon, it means a ton to me. Like seriously <3

Images below:

Page 8:

Narration test:

New intro page:

^ Thumbnail ideas for a new version of the page above: