Xanny’s Curse Blog

So I’ve been playing a lot of Ouendan 2 lately since I just recently repurchased my Nintendo DS and found one of the songs in the game fascinating - namely, the song in the video embedded above.

While I still felt that The Brilliant Green’s “Rainy Days, Never Stays” still represents Xanny’s Curse to its fullest, I felt that Hitomi Yaida’s “Go My Way” took this similar idea and put in a more positive spin and made it ridiculously super bubbly and happy. The Brilliant Green’s song has a place towards the end of the series, but to jump start the series, I felt that it had to be accompanied by something really happy sounding and upbeat. It represents the ridiculous yet normal nature of the challenges Xanny, now Xandy, faces in his new environment, and speaks of what the future may bring.

That’s not the only reason why I’m mentioning Hitomi Yaida however. Because of this song, I think we have finally found our icing in the cake - so to speak - for one of the major plot points in the Xanny’s Curse storyline. While we have locked down character designs and what not, we have determined that there needed to be something powerful that needed to be taken care of mid-way into the story. Now, I have yet to speak with the individuals who are involved, but I have a feeling that they will love the proposal I just sent them.

To illustrate how “fresh” this idea is, I’ll have you know that I just came up with it about an hour ago and literally just sent the email prior to me writing this blog entry!

Our newest page is going along smoothly. We have to rescan one of the elements of the page and do the lettering and assembly pretty soon and we should have it up by the end of this week at the latest. I believe our artist did a bang up job with this, and the punch-line will most certainly be worth the wait! I do apologize for the delays as there’s been some problems with the designing of some of the characters, which led to the delay of the comic being done.

Also, this page needed the extra time - the punch-line has to be of utmost importance and we feel that if we ruined this moment, that it won’t be remembered several pages later. Our goal is to always have memorable moments here, and this page will most certainly be something to remember.

Now a few things of note… we are going to go on a seasonal basis for this comic in order to unwind. The end of the season isn’t coming soon as we’re planning the season to end towards the end of Summer, but we wanted to let you all know in advance before you guys think that Xanny’s Curse is on permanent hiatus again. This will give us time to work on some other stuff, and I believe we can talk to you about what some of our plans are.

We’ve been toying the idea of having a Xanny’s Curse Digital Graphic Novel similar to the Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel and posting it on YouTube. We feel that some of the key moments of Xanny’s Curse would be very powerful once the characters have been given voices. Frankly, we can’t wait to voice the first few pages of Xanny’s Curse and release them for you all to watch - but it will have to be accompanied with redrawn pages that allow for such an experience.

In any case, we can’t share too much of that project yet, but all you need to know is that Xanny’s Curse is in the minds and hearts of its creators and artists much more than you would ever think. I hope you enjoyed this little post and we’ll see you when the comic’s updated!