Sometimes I really hate being the letterer on my own story. I get this absolutely beautiful art from Jay, and it saddens me every time I have to cover it up with captions and words. I often find myself cutting dialogue on the fly, just to give you more of his art. Which probably isn’t a bad idea; this page is wordy enough even after the cuts!
After a little hiccup in the schedule last week, we are back as we finish out our little prologue of loving!
Stageshow kicks in to high gear with the next page, folks, so stay tuned!
I want to make sure that even though this is a super-powered comic, that I never drop the richness of fully realized characters for slam-bang action sequences. So I think a scene like this, that really focuses on Shania’s insecurities, works so well.
Here it is, folks. We close out April with the final page of Jay’s sketchbook pages and the final page of Shania’s Journal. I have really enjoyed this text and picture format (not to mention my chance to use Blambot’s awesome Catholic School Girls font. But next week we will return to our regular story pages as Jay and I bring you the beginning of Arc issue number 2!
See you then!
Shania’s Journal continues as we get some of her thoughts on her new best friend (and maybe more?) Ed.
And may I just say how much I absolutely adore these sketches by our ever-loving artist? He captures Ed beautifully, doesn’t he.
Don’t worry, we will see much more of her in our upcoming second issue!
Shania’s journal this week takes a look at our beyond suave quarterback Winston.
Interesting fact: when I originally created the supporting characters for Arc as a teenager, Winston was a barely defined football player with the name Winston Salem. Smokers will surely get the (admittedly terrible) joke. He’s far removed from that character here, as readers will see in pages to come.
Today, Shania’s journal takes a look at Bev.
We have been running these for almost a month now, so I am wondering what everyone thinks about them. We have a couple more left after this, so do you like them? Would you rather we just go silent between issues?
Let me know what you think.
We take a look at Flamethrow this week as our look in to the mind of Shania Wilder continues.
In site-related news, I am starting a new graphic novel project as part of the April Script Frenzy project. You can find my profile on the site here.









