Suomaa strip

Believe

As a form of publishing I still believe in the pamphlet comic book, although THIS project hasn't been a commercial success - in a long shot. 

There is so many things to explore that you are not able to do with a book. And even today I would jump to the opportunity to start a comic book of my own. That was the original dream in the 90's. Having read Dirty Plotte, Eightball, Hate, Palookaville... what I really wanted to do was have a comic book going. At that time it didn't really feel impossible so I ended up doing books that had the same structure a comic book would have. Eventually when  I started Läskimooses it didn't use that kind of structure that I had envisioned in the 90's for a comic book. It's now a book in comic books clothing! And 2 years to go, maybe lingwr since the Suomaa strip is slowing me down. 

All this, it wasn't very wise, was it?

Think

I think all publicity is useless

So

The ending of this issue wasn't in the first drafts of the story. I think the current ending started to come about a year back, maybe two. These things often happen with the story. I have a sort of skeleton narrative with preliminary twists and turns and some of these sometimes feel or start to feel unsatisfying, that more is needed, some deeper secret or surprise, some more meat for the bones. In this case the original idea of the killer planet just crashing earth felt weak so I came with a somewhat different solution. Hope it works.
It would be fun to track down all the changes the story has gone through in the process of becoming. There are a lot of them. All the time some general direction remains. I have added depth to the 2 main characters, I knew I would. Still the way it has happened feels like a sort of miracle.
When the story eventually will be finished after 8 years of work it will be curious to read it through. And I'm saving a couple of major plot revelations for the so called NOTES. More of them in 2 years.