New year, new page. The gladiator bot combat sequence goes on, and will for about four pages. Yes, maybe a bit too much. But, well, you learn from mistakes. Theoretically.

Because with Robomeks there’s been mistakes. Lots. And, who knows, maybe they’re here to stay. For a while, at least. But let’s start from the beginning. With the usual…

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This is the second part of my, quite lengthy, musings about the mistakes I’ve done with Robomeks so far (the ones I’ve detected) and, maybe, some solutions. To be honest, this is mainly for me, hoping that writing about this will help me understand what’s wrong and what could be done to fix it. So, when I write “you” I really mean “me”. I’m not trying to pontify.

No, really, it’s a webcomic!

Most of the mistakes I’ve made so far have to do with all the decisions I’ve mentioned in the previous post, and the process that led to those decisions.

A webcomic isn’t a comic-book. That’s something that is crystal clear to me now. The format totally changes the content. Or, in other words, the content should adapt to the format. That affects the pace of the storytelling, the page format and composition and a myriad of smaller things.

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This concludes my musings (ramblings?) about the state of Robomeks so far, where it comes from and where it can go from now on.

So now what?

As I mentioned at the previous post I’ve been revising the original treatment for Robomeks. That has lead to some changes. Some minor, some significant.

The story arch will be shorter. The sixth chapter, which was related to the second chapter and that, in fact, was the seed for a possible sequel, is cut out. The same happens with the fifth. This one has been cut because it had no relevance at all with the story arch. The ninth and tenth chapters have been merged. That’s all for the cuts. Now the additions.

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