{"id":366,"date":"2011-01-15T09:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2011-01-15T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T09:48:14","slug":"incomplete-works-eye-private-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2011\/01\/incomplete-works-eye-private-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Incomplete Works: Eye: Private Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading the\u00a0Order of the Stick<\/a> last year, I was quite keen to try and launch a web comic again.\u00a0 In order to not be too ambitious, I wanted something that I could do a regular four panel for that could be funny without setting out to be perpetual comedy and carry a enough story to not stagnate and maintain a certain amount of interest.<\/p>\n

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One of the few finished panels of Eye: Private Eye.<\/p><\/div>\n

I know there are inherent problems in shoe horning everything into a four-panel format (most jokes end successfully on the third) but I wanted a standard format to use so that I could work on building a decent website, which is another skill I need work on, with decent archiving and a clear simple design.<\/p>\n

Then I made my trademark mistake:\u00a0 I drew the characters, I constructed the framework of a setting, and came to the conclusion that my throwaway idea to just give me something to draw was too good and my artistic talent<\/p>\n

will never live up to my expectations.\u00a0 I have to this day drawn two strips and finished neither of them completely.<\/p>\n

Eye is a mutant.\u00a0 He\u2019s a runt with a squashed beak like mouth and only one eye.\u00a0 He is sour, grumpy, unkempt, untidy, perpetually hung over, disorganized and penniless.\u00a0 He makes his living as a private detective with his gentle-giant friend Hammerhead, a fearsome looking shark-headed mutant who wants a kitten and has a childish innocence that means he can\u2019t comprehend why people find him frightening.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s set in a near-future urban sprawl where mutants are the mutated-disfigured variety as opposed to the super-model with special powers variety and distrusted and downtrodden accordingly.\u00a0 This project is again one of those where I have more in my head and in notes form than is on actual physical pages and the disruption of the transfer from brain to page has been largely self defeating.<\/p>\n

I sense that I’m now starting to talk about things which are not merely unfinished and incomplete, but actually not started. \u00a0Both Eye and Paladin are almost in a planning stage as opposed to anything else. \u00a0Having said that, this early planning stage for my earlier work would probably mean I had ten pages already before grinding to a halt when I realised I had no idea where I was going. \u00a0I think I’ve probably grumbled about it before, but planning is very important and my inner-8-year-old weeps every time I admit that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading the\u00a0Order of the Stick last year, I was quite keen to try and launch a web comic again.\u00a0 In order to not be too ambitious, I wanted something that I could do a regular four panel for that could be funny without setting out to be perpetual comedy and carry a enough story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[238,55,8,239],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-comics","tag-incomplete-works","tag-projects","tag-writing"],"yoast_head":"\nIncomplete Works: Eye: Private Eye - Chaotic Tortoise<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2011\/01\/incomplete-works-eye-private-eye\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Incomplete Works: Eye: Private Eye - 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