So, if you’ve visited the MitM home page anytime since 3:00 AM (mountain time), you may have noticed the newest page has already been up for awhile. I finished it (obviously) very late last night and was just too tired to write the page commentary at that time, so I just now got around to writing it ^^;

You know, apart from the book title (which doesn’t follow the correct perspective very well), I’m pretty happy with how this page came out. There’s not really a lot of inking mistakes and I like how the backgrounds and panels worked on this one.

Hmm…so we get to hear a little more info on Ray’s backstory. If I was to take a step back and try to critique my own work, I’m not so sure about Ray’s role (or how I’ve handled him as a character even). Since a majority of the major plot elements were initially jotted down by my high school self, there’s a nice variety of stuff that doesn’t feel very…good. Some things drastically changed over the years like the bandits, who were created on the spot at the beginning of chapter 2, or the fact that Joel (the character that chapter 4 revolved around) was not designed to be blind, but instead handicapped in different way…

When I originally came up with the character Ray, I wanted him to be a writer, thus providing the inspiration for Janice to pursue the same field. He also was going to be at odds with Dayton to provide…drama! But seriously, I felt he was important to the story and included him. However, so far I feel like I haven’t effectively used him as a character, or at least his “page time”. I was mostly pleased with how Chapter 3 panned out, but I cut it shorter than I had originally anticipated to have the “bandits ending” scene. Chapter 5 didn’t have a lot of room for him honestly, and I wasn’t even planning on having him in this chapter at the time of starting this chapter.

Basically I’m not so sure anymore if he really adds to the story yet. I don’t know, maybe I’m just crazy… -.-

I really shouldn’t stress this much over him though. After all, there are sooooooo many “well written” characters in the rest of the comic, what’s only one poorly written character? xD

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