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A little clarification on the timeline and some explanation for readers who are unfamiliar with the process of creating comics.
- Here we find out that it’s been seven months and thirteen days since Faith left Felix.
- Felix started working on “Over” approximately six months ago.
- We’ll find out in the next nine pages all the ridiculous things Felix was up to in the time AFTER Faith left and BEFORE he started “Over.“
- About two months ago, Skate finished up the last page of issue #11 of “Fire of the Pendragon.” He’s been waiting patiently for the script for issue #12 since then.
How is it that Felix hasn’t been writing “Fire of the Pendragon” for seven months and it’s only now that Skate is coming to him to complain? Well, the thing is, it takes a lot longer, generally speaking, to DRAW a comic book, than it does to WRITE one. Most comic book artists are considered fast if they can finish a full 22 page issue in one month. However, many successful comic book writers can write four or five different books each month.
In Felix‘s case, he was way ahead of schedule, finishing “Pendragon” #11 prior to his break-up. Skate, however, was only caught up to issue #9 at that time. While Felix was working on Over, Skate was drawing the scripts that were already “in the can” (as the comics expression goes.) “Pendragon” ships on a bi-monthly schedule, and in it’s almost two year run, this month was the first time an issue (#12) failed to ship.
Alright, hope this makes sense. (I know you guys are sticklers for the attention to detail here.)
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