WayRadSteve666
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That's right! I wrote that big F'in phone book sized comment and forgot about the fact that he has the other highly unusual/possibly unique thing where he went back and rebooted ( was it the first 3) Swinging Island pages!!! And he doesn't just redraw it panel for panel, word for word , it's got a few significant structural layout changes and even some variation of dialogue and narration. So he drops this material and it's like "woah! This isn't merely an art makeover for greater consistency with the later chapters , he is indeed doing his own reboot (like a movie reboot as distinctive from a movie remake. So the 1998 Gus Van Sant version of Psycho is a remake (literally using the original 1960 screenplay and nearly shot for shot with the exception of some disturbing brain flashes superimposed during Marion Crane (with Anne Heche in the roll for Jaime Lee Curtis' mom) death scene. While the Fede Alvarez versions of Evil Dead and Girl In The Spiders Web are proper reboots (even though Wikipedia tries to say the later is a "soft reboot " , a pretentious and passive aggressive sounding term meaning that it's a going to upgrade/reboot/fine tune the property, but retain the continuity of the first 3 films ) . Anyway, it's rare for the original artist in any medium or genre to just full on recreate the material of an earlier work. Though it has and does occur with unicorn rarity with Hitchcock springing to mind (from the previous mention of Psycho) as a guy who remade one of his earlier films after he had secured the $, success and resources and experience to confidently improve the earlier work. But to circle back after another suicide inducing meandering ADHD tangent...so Tusarov is one of these unicorns, and he (by the cinematic standard which I went into neaseu inducing detail to establish) isn't remaking, he's rebooting and yes, annoyingly it's compatible with the lame "soft" reboot category. Again, I don't dislike the films that fall under the category, I just wish there was a more dignified, less frivolous term for it. So Tusarov does this surprising maneuver and then pivots to the peripheral stuff which works more as a series of deleted scenes (remember DVDs and the insane amount of special stuff you would get, particularly if was a multi disk, gatefold special edition) if the technology existed in 2005 to just have the chronologically re insert the deleted scenes into the movie at the appropriate corresponding places. My real question is this....are these RPSS re inserted concepts which were in the original story outline or do these ideas only occur to him years later as he goes over the old pages? Or both?Quite the background on RPSS.
I have been a fan of his and the artwork for quite some time, backer on KS. and a few times on patreon. I quite enjoy him filling out the story, I always felt like certain scenes were either too short, or too big of gaps between one scene and the next. I do find it odd where he will slightly remake a page (example 93 & 93-2) It also makes 97 needing to be remade.
I would also love to see a rough roadmap of where he plans to insert extended content into the previous story. I have been slowly trying to re-order the whole story but now I don't know when to fix it because of the new pages lol
And you kinda did anticipate a question I forgot about how viable you thought the whole comic (Pleasure Land) was in terms of shoehorning potential RPSS tangents. So do you know how many days Grant and Betty have actually been there (from knocking the wall door thing to the latest group scene) ? A couple of days/nights at least because there is the whole surreal octopenis /phallus phantasmagoria dream Betty has. My point being, any time there is a point in the story in which they sleep through the night on camera, then that would represent a window he can expand on with "what you didn't know was that this special thing happened between them saying goodnight and the next morning, right? So if I am him , what I would do is try to catch the readers off guard in an awesome peak Game of Thrones style. Like the group cave adventure thing from the first RPSS insert, that little digression was kind of like fun but trivial in that it wasn't boring (it couldn't have been because it had that "WTF is going on" novelty. But it also added nor subtracted anything from the main continuity plot. But he could conceivably make the next one far more dramatic and shocking and it could indeed be something which once revealed could alter the vibe /flavor going forward. That is if one of our POV characters Grant and Betty are involved. There are other scenarios which might be slightly less interesting (but still worth the diversion) involving supporting cast or even the full on ancillary characters. Actually, if a background RPSS reveals, for instance, a supporting character doing something like spying on/filming Betty then that could be used for some clever, unexpected dark subversion which could add a shadowy edge to a the story which, if revealed brilliantly could redefine the story vibe we thought we knew. But these are dice rolling concepts which might fail to connect or annoy and alienate some readers. Does he interact with the fans at all like JAB and Incognitymous occasionally do? Have you personally ever engaged him with a question or comment?
