Fridays sure seem like they’re gonna take on the duty of page updates…
Which is weird because my Fridays are actually normally packed :\

So now we’ve switched back to Janice and Sam. Scene changes almost always make me stop and think how to get it to work. Switching mid-page is pretty cool in my opinion, but is occasionally tricky to properly achieve. Changing settings between pages probably feels the most natural, but it’s often one of my biggest problems with webcomics. When a webcomic changes scenes between pages, I almost always go back a page to make sure I didn’t miss a page. Because of the usual “once-a-week” update schedule of a webcomic, it can cause a reader to forget stuff. A sudden redirection can cause even the most attentive readers to fill like they missed something. Ideally you would want to signal an approaching scene change by doing something (like a fade-away shot) on the previous page to help the reader guess what is coming on the next page (which I’m not entirely sure is something I did with page 131…)

If I was to start this page with Sam and Janice immediately talking outside the carpentry and then follow them inside, I feel like it would have been jarring. That’s primarily the reason there’s the top, silent, “establishing-shot” panel, followed by a panel without them. Only their voices are heard at the end of an almost finished conversation. I’m not saying this is a perfect scene change example, nor am I saying that my previous scene changes are flawless, but I do believe the way I try to structure most of them do some things right. Of course you’re the reader and the only worthy one to actually judge whether they’re successful or not…

Also normally a shot like the top panel would have the stone/cobble road that I normally draw my roads with, but considering the size of everything in that panel, I felt that it would just get too crowded and hard to read. The word bubbles were a little frustrating on this page as well. I had a rough time finding room for them or where to appropriately place them so they read fluidly >.< What kind of person only knocks once as one large “KNOCK”??? ...an unskilled artist who only leaves room for a single “knock” onomatopoeia word...stacked vertically -.- Wow. I sure had enough commentary for this page. This was for all of you fans out there who just couldn’t live without my rambling!! >:D
(A whole 0% of the readers is my guess)

And finally, is there a new character approaching?!?!

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…meh, maybe.

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