The story of Rog’s first mission with the Badnix (which technically started all the way back in April!) has come to a close, and so too has my experiment with extra-large comics.
Not everyone was a fan of the new format, which I can understand. They were a great excuse for me to expand on my art, and I think they’ll read well in the archives, but it’s kind of a lot of material to ask people to stop and take in while they’re flicking through their RSS feeds.
Regardless of how you felt about it, I hope you can at least appreciate that I’m constantly trying to make the comic better by pushing myself and trying new things! (Which is the only reason why Badnix no longer consists of Rog and Perry standing around trading lukewarm observations about video games. You’re welcome.)
In any case, I’ll be switching back to the original regular-sized, 3-per-week update schedule of yore for the next story line. I might be taking a week or so off from the comic before then, though, during which time the site will be updated with… something that isn’t the next storyline! Probably something very ridiculous. We’ll find out together, come Monday.
Also, if you want to see more giant-sized Badnix stories in the future, or if you have any other ideas or suggestions, let me know in the Comments section! (It totally exists, guys!) Or shoot me an e-mail! Or commune with me via telepathy or smoke signals, I don’t care. I’d love to hear what people are thinking!
– CC
I was fine with both.
Enjoying the story, by the way!
GO YOU, INTERNET COMIC PERSON! GO YOU!
Thanks, megazver! I can always count on you (to have an avatar of one of the Spy vs. Spy guys eating a cat, seriously what is up with that)
It’s… my Gamma World character.
“Mao Whiskerton. Lover, Fighter, Pony Resuscitation Specialist. His cape is the swishiest, his epee the pointiest, his hat the most… hat.”
“He is not cats. Those are not stilts. Cease the insinuations!”
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Shut up. Like you’re not a nerd.
It might be a good idea to change the format as appropriate for the storyline. The choice is between small but frequent updates, and slow but large ones, right? So it depends on pacing. Large panels seem appropriate for self-contained action scenes (no four-month-long battles please) and important plot reveals. Lighter scene and simple character banter are better when simple and fast.
Also, did you change the characters’ speech in the previous page? I don’t remember NurseBot begging for money before. And I’m sure Perry was talking about his colossal hubris saving the day; instead of the more self-aware “exactly as great as I’ve always suspected” thing he says now.
Good points. It’s just a difficult balance to walk, between doing right by the story and keeping a consistent schedule – I think they’re both really important! Doing two alternating schedules is definitely something I’m thinking about, though.
Also yeah, nice catch! I’ll sometimes put up comics in the wee hours of the morning and catch a hundred mistakes that I need to fix the next day. It’s usually art stuff, but this time I also realized I left out a piece of Ted’s dialogue! I also tweaked Perry’s dialogue a bit to make it more clear (I thought), which I’ll admit was a bit of a George Lucas move – probably should have left well enough alone.