It is with glee that I finish issue #4. It took longer than I anticipated, and from now on, I will have the comic done and ready for the printer before I launch a Kickstarter campaign. I did get four issues produced in one year, which is essentially a quarterly average. Not bad.
With BBC4, I have the conflict set up that lasts into the series for however long it plays itself out. It takes on several different faces, which promises to be a load of fun for me. I already have BBC5 blocked out, and it is going to be a humdinger. I haven’t really given you any hint (maybe a little) at the way the story twists and turns going forward, but #5 gets into some serious design and story convolutions. That’s all I’m going to say!
With BBC5, the first “book” of the trilogy ends. Starting with BBC6, the issues are 80 pages and come out less often. There is a good reason for that, as I am designing the story arcs in such a way that five issues was necessary for the first book, but things accelerate after that, and I want to do a run that gets down and dirty with the appearance of an adversary that is complete amoral. There really was a family called the Benders, from Kansas, and they did murder people and bury them in the back yard. But that is where the similarities between history’s Benders and mine end. I use them as fodder for my crime family, and it is with a purpose I do this.
I think I’ll leave it at that.
