A bunch of beings trying to survive in a broken clock
Link can be found here:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/c5u39hppj22d5gv/comic_rd_no_annotations.pdf/file
I'll go back later to annotate this since there's a lot for me to clarify and note all around.
While the throughline still floated around in my head, I also wanted to run with a narrative style I liked and fit with Chimeric. Regardless of whatever premise I decided to run with, I valued narrative more because nothing works without a story to tell, and I wanted a something real that is intriguing and unsightly like a chimera. After thinking about it more, I decided I wanted a story with straightforward execution, but a lot left to plot progression and other ways of benefitting from a low impact approach.
Before I realized what to do for a story, I shuffled through ideas that I never bothered to fully write down, and whatever I came up with, I held onto what clicked. Despite that, I was still inconfident with how to go about a story, so I fussed on how to approach it for a year. As I became more lax on my approach, I later decided on merely tying ideas where I see fit and make a point, versus going with some rigid formula. Alongside, I also wasn't sure which medium to go with since even my intentions for all of this are chimeric. In turn, I fussed about the medium too for a bit, until I settled on this: a one-shot comic, and one telling a story with what ideas I've gathered and fit.
Around the start of the lock-down, I felt like doing the draft, so I decided on a three-part issue. While working, I didn't like the flow, and the combination of that and overbearing schoolwork drained me so I dropped it then. A half a year later, I got the impulse to turn it into a comic and proto-game hybrid, so I picked it up again. While I didn't go through with the proto-game idea, I liked the changes I made to the outline and brought more ideas to work with, so I pushed further. With the surprising workload this draft had, I worked on-and-off until being done by February. While I've wanted to do this story, I am glad to get it done than anything for all the other stuff I have going on.
While all the drawings are practically scribbles, the point is not getting the best drawing down, but the compositions which I felt suited each page. Eventually, I will get back to drawing this on the big paper, once I feel like dedicating more time to this and with more concept art done. Whenever I do, it should give me more room to breathe versus scribbling on half-sheets of paper, and another draft should shape up the compositions I already have in turn. Until then, I'll have more ideas to stockpile onto the final product, which is happening anyways since a lot of ideas have been tweaked since I've started the draft, and regardless of the process, I want to run with ideas I'm fully satisfied with than anything.