Xanny’s Curse Blog

On Sunday after we taped our TWiGaME and The Review Club episodes for Games and ME, our co-writer and artist sat down to discuss the specifics of the Xanny’s Curse storyline from beginning to end. This is a mean feat to accomplish - after all, how many webcomics out there have already a defined start, middle, and end?

The discussion went from what motivates Xanny to do what he does and then drilled down onto the central conflict of the storyline. After identifying the central conflict (and it’s not what you think), we had to figure out how the current planned story elements would evolve into becoming integral parts of the storyline. I identified that while the comic had gags in and of itself, that there were specific purposes as to why certain things were told in certain ways. These were all laid bare for our artist and co-writer to play around and look at.

Our artist then discussed with a friend of ours what direction we should take Xandy’s design and came out with some really important aspects of her personality that would stay true and stick with the new design. We then discussed the character roles and their purpose in the story and tried to give context as to why such character is motivated to do said action. The problem with Xanny’s Curse as I identified it was that while the characters served a purpose, they didn’t have much of a personality that the audience could identify with. Our co-writer then wrote some notes down and looked at our time outline to see the significance of each action.

We then went on to talk about scheduling, which I admit I had mixed feelings. Based on the amount of work and information required to be tossed around, Xanny’s Curse would need to abandon its old former weekly updates for every two weeks in order to retain a certain quality to both the dialogue and the drawings. Our co-writer, the artist, and myself all agreed that we had to strive for higher quality per page rather than trying to fill each page with filler and quickly noted that Xanny hadn’t even lasted one day in his life.

So what does this mean? You can expect more things to happen in Xanny’s Curse, better dialogue, better art throughout. Each page brings us closer to the end and, while our artist and co-writer have indeed talked about the end, it’s still a long ways away in Xanny’s new life.

Again, I can’t help but thank the people who have seen and left comments on the Xanny’s Curse page:

Great Sage
leonard
hannah
Gravemind Zombie
V
Anifanatic
Tara
Ryan
Lawrence
Thennek Vashne
Crazy Cow Productions
and Paul Jutra

It’s because of the comments that you all left on the webcomic that reminded me of how important this comic was to everyone, including myself.

We promise that we won’t disappoint once Xanny finally comes out of the bathroom stall and starts living the life that we give him.