Grymm Ramblings

I'm actually having lofty ideas about having this story arc finished before the end of the year. My outline says that's another 5, maybe 6 pages left. I can make that happen. Especially since I have a vacation from the Accursed Day Job coming up this month.

In other news, I'm back picking at VW print collection work. I finally have the Volume 1 master file fixed properly and I'll be uploading it to the printer next week to get some samples. So of course my brain has immediately shifted to the concept of future collections and thinking about how many story arcs to include in each. Found a couple of interesting things going through the archives.

The Black and White Era, if you also include some of the transitory stuff and HoboGeddon comes out to around 100 or so pages. That's Volume 1 right there.

The first year of the color era has it's own self contained narrative of Grymm and CreepKnight being out on the road and causing chaos and Mac being on the warpath. Then caps itself off nicely with the "Year Ender" wrap up strips. Ends up being around 100 pages too. Perfect. Volume 2. Easy

Moving into 2011, you get another solid year that has the over arching story with both the Conspiracy and the superheroes making their presences known more while the guys attempt to create a new comic project. An even stronger year ender that time around with Kaboodles' Twas the Night Before Crispy story. Once again, about 100 pages in all for 2011. Volume 3 in the bag.

Things start to skew some when we hit 2012 and further. That's when the flashbacks started, Grymm and CreepKnight started dealing more with the superheroes, and the massive Wrath of Con story. Stopping between Wrath and After Wrath would put a Volume 4 at 88 pages. Including After Wrath puts it at 120 and would span all of 2012 and a smidgen of 2013. A chunky boy of a volume indeed.

Then we roll into the era of Kill Your Heroes and hiatuses. The E101 flashback story and Kill Your Heroes make up 110 pages and covered five years. Average of 22 pages a year. Gross. Disgusting. Terrible. But that sounds like a good round number for a Volume 5?

It's just fascinating to me that we made no actual real attempts to try to tell stories that could more or less be chunked up into 100 page chapters and yet we totally did. 

Now the hard part is just gathering together all the master copies of everything from 2012 on. I've found the full size print worthy files for everything before that. Worse comes to worse, I should have all the original art files that I can simply redo lettering on. But I'd rather leave as much of CK's original work intact as I can.

We'll see. For now, I at least have all the master files I'd need to start work on a Volume 2 and I think that's marvelous. Thank you for your dedication to redundant back ups CreepKnight. It's saved my ass once again.