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I've written previously about the Great British Bump-Off; it's still out there in the murk, being tinkered with. 

It's not like NEMS pt2, where I wrote a script too difficult to draw. I had a look at that yesterday with a view to having another crack at it: I should definitely have taken those two weeks I spent writing it off, if you know what I mean. Perhaps I'll post up the roughs one day... when I feel that I have fully recovered from trying to edit what I'd done. A lot of good ideas... arriving far too fast.

But GBBO remains an active, if sloth-like project. It has doubled in length, and I don't think it would make a good webcomic running at the speed I've been going, because by the 110th page, no one would remember what happened on the first. But there is "interest" in it, shall we say, so I am designing it for print when I have time. It requires a completely different approach to anything else I've ever done, and if I get it right, it will be good, so I am, for once, taking my time. 

Anyway, below are a selection of sketches that accompanied my plotting, organised into a fun "comic style grid". 

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Richard Kirk

"I don't think it would make a good webcomic running at the speed I've been going, because by the 110th page, no one would remember what happened on the first." This sounds good: we can all go back to the first page and spot something new the second and third time through. We won't just get to page 110, and say "Oh, the Space Butler did it" (or whatever) and never open it again. No-one wants production problems, but not working first go can be a good thing. But I guess you know that already. “Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” ― Piet Hein

scarygoround

It's the problem of a "hybrid approach" - webcomic for eventual print. Over nearly 25 years I've identified the maximum length something I've written can run for, serialised online, before people start scratching their heads. It's 7-8 weeks. I divided Bad Machinery stories up into three parts to try to stick to this.

Thomas MacColl

Massive interest in both these projects - hope you can wrestle NEMS pt. 2 to shape some day!

William Cole

110 pages? Basic poison? Looming bearded man? Color me intrigued!

Egg

Ooooh, I am immediately super-excited about my imagined version of this.

scarygoround

I'm going to write something about what went wrong with it when I post up the roughs. But draw your conclusions from it being replaced by 15 comic strips about a broken toilet, punctuated by my catching Covid.

Jacob

Wait, it IS poison oak?? Called it! 😄

Nathan Myers

Correct, I have completely lost track of most of the back-references in Girl Genius. It desperately needs a cheat sheet. I think they once spent two years on a few days of in-comic events.