A quote from my favorite comic arc from one of my still favorite comic book artist/writer complexes? One that already goes a lot towards refining my ideas of what it means to /create/ something? <3 <3 <3
Yeah...I agree with that, and have been caught in that trap before, too. But I also have that problem....characters are people, and people are /hard/ to create sometimes. I think I'm getting better at that, at least when people start creating /themselves/ in my head.
(unrelated note, I need to read the footnotes for that set more than ever, now. I have them only as individual issues, while almost everything else in the series I have as trade paperbacks. I respect McNeil greatly for even putting in the footnotes...she has so much detail, as many do, but they're totally optional, like a DVD commentary. She focuses on character /first/, and then gives us the interesting things she found out in the process, in the back of the book. Neat way to do it.)
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Date: 2006-05-22 09:56 am (UTC)Yeah...I agree with that, and have been caught in that trap before, too. But I also have that problem....characters are people, and people are /hard/ to create sometimes. I think I'm getting better at that, at least when people start creating /themselves/ in my head.
(unrelated note, I need to read the footnotes for that set more than ever, now. I have them only as individual issues, while almost everything else in the series I have as trade paperbacks. I respect McNeil greatly for even putting in the footnotes...she has so much detail, as many do, but they're totally optional, like a DVD commentary. She focuses on character /first/, and then gives us the interesting things she found out in the process, in the back of the book. Neat way to do it.)