18.33: Deep Dive: The Schlock Mercenary Finale
Writing Excuses
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The Power of Humor in Graphic Novels
humor is fundamentally, and I made the fun of it, but often about changing the context information you have. It's such a useful tool when you're trying to get your reader to absorb an enormous amount of complex world building. By the 20 volumes of complex military science fiction world building means there's a lot of information that you need to be having in your brain as context for why is this character making this choice? Why is this civilization invading XYZ? And so the humor in that rhythm of the daily joke, I think, was an enormously beneficial tool for you"
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