I've been here for ages but most people have no idea I exist, so here I am.
I am EE. Hiemie and I are buds and he introduced me to this site a really, really long time ago. Possibly as early as like 2003-04. Not really sure. At first I was just following his battles and stuff, then I made an account so I could vote on stuff. Then I started reading non-Hiemie things, and so on and so forth. Been lurkin the site for quite a few years now.
Always wanted to get into comics and stuff, but I'm a horrendous artist. However, I am a writer, which of course only made it worse, as I do have a creative spark, and that compounded with my increasing familiarity with the site made not being able to draw suck all the more.
But then I got talkin' to RoflQu who said he'd always wanted to try to reform the site to where Writers could join too and team up with Artists and stuff. After like literally a dozen false starts that fell apart due to one of us being busy, he hit me up out of the blue just days before the Invitational's registration end and, well, here we are! I am tremendously excited about both the opportunity to finally be a full-patch Void member and also being the first Writer-only guy. Other than Toast of course, but he's too busy eating babies and keeping the site going to do that regularly, I guess.
I felt like posting now because we're partway through my first battle and it's been very interesting. I've written all forms of things (short stories, vignettes, screenplays, and I even dabbled in poetry a little), but I'd never written a comic before. It has been quite a learning experience. If I've learned anything thus far, it's that writing comics is an exercise in economy -- particularly with these one week deadlines!
It's now very easy to see why so many comics even in the professional world have a lot of pseudo-deus ex machina, highly plot-convenient coincidences, and so on. Sometimes it just makes sense to shave off a bit of fluff that would make your story more plausible for the sake of nixing an unnecessary page or bundle of panels. Still trying to find that medium between paring down your writing output and maintaining the soul of the piece you're working on. Quite the learning curve.
Anyway, I love this site and I'm ecstatic to be a more active part of it after so long. If anybody would be interested in pairing up with a Writer sometime (for one of my characters or maybe even one of yours), I wouldn't mind hearin' from ya.
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Colbitzer
@ 3:32 PM Apr 17th