I got about halfway through the new comic script yesterday, getting to a point where I definitely felt like I'd be better served by waiting and pondering the next step. It was a good plan because most of the rest of the comic came to me this morning, and I have a feeling this comic is going to be the first of a series about these characters. Writing came slowly yesterday--it felt like a chess game, as I carefully thought about each panel before making my move, so to speak. I thought about each moment from every character's angle, weighed what would be natural for him or her to say, what would be interesting at the same time, and if I needed them to say something uninteresting, was the ultimate goal worth it? I find I need to be a lot more economical with comics than with prose--I'm aiming for twenty-four pages here, which in itself shall be a difficult thing to accomplish by October 31. There's just not the kind of room you get with prose, especially since, for whatever reason, I never feel comfortable giving the characters thought bubbles or narration squares. I love reading them in Frank Miller comics, but for some reason I find them unwieldy. Anyway, it's probably well that I feel like I can finish this script up to-day. But before that, kids, Uncle Setsuled's got more slides from vacation in his Second Life (no, not the one with the other wife and kids in Tucson). I finally bought some Lindan dollars--the in-world currency. I bought about ten American dollars worth, and I've already blown just about all of it, mostly on silly random things. Presenting Sir Lehagvoi Setsuko, Jedi Knight in Her Majesty's Navy; Earlier, I'd been using my lightsabre to menace a lame little Christmas area. Here I am pondering some gingerbread men who escaped my wrath. This is after a lady in charge of the area IMed me; "Put the weapon away immediately." Here I am dressed as Boromir, standing atop New Babbage's famed Ogdred Weary House; Here I'm relaxing, watching a burlesque show in a Gotham City night club; After all that, I still had time for a fine day at the Paleozoic Museum;