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Originally Posted by tacticslion
That's actually pretty cool. I'd heard (from a friend who had a friend who'd read it, maybe) that it was, but that may have been how my friend interpreted what his friend said - or simply how I misunderstood my own friend. Third party sources: they're reliable! 
So Nuklear Age, Atomik Age, and Atomic Robo all happen in the same, shared, persistant world? That's... pretty cool, actually. are in different worlds? That's totally how I first understood them to work! |
He's probably referring to the last third of the book, which isn't necessarily grim, has a tinge of gritty, but mainly is just unlike the first two thirds while at the same time being just like the first two thirds. It's all very clear if you just read it, and then explained further after reading the author's note afterward.
And I just thought an occasional Atomik Age comic would be nifty, even if you never completed the story. I thought of it as something you could write about every couple of years if something made you think, "Hey, that could potentially lead to the end of the big story, and it is a good enough self-contained story to warrant publication." I was mostly referring to what seems like your current busy schedule on top of finding out the right path to take.
If you did occasional comics, then they could easily be self-contained stories anywhere between 5 and 27 pages that could be written fairly easily and quickly compared to a novel with around 300 pages minimum. Of course the same problem still applies if you just don't find a path you were satisfied with, I thought it would just be easier to find that path in gradual steps rather than one big book.