The Dreadful -- Chapter 3

[MSperoni]

I doubt you're being serious about that...but if there actually is anyone out there who genuinely compares me with Lucas and The Dreadful to Star Wars they really need to reconsider their perspective on this art shift and move on with their lives.

If The Dreadful ever got to the level Star Wars is I wouldn't mess with it. However, it's a very very small comic on a website I don't own. I do the comic for free and I've only changed it once. My change also didn't force you to pay 40-50$ for a new set of movies (oh wait, Lucas didn't either)...

The Dreadful is still more or less mine to do with what I want. Maybe one of these days it'll get to the level of Star Wars and be everyone's, but it's far from that point.

Though personally I think Lucas has the right to mess with Star Wars as much as he wants. It's his movie. He's not forcing anyone buy it. I own two versions of Star Wars. The original movies on VHS, and the special editions on DVD, and that's good enough for me. If I were him I wouldn't mess with it, because I feel that it's fine as it is, but I'm not him. If he feels these changes make Star Wars more like his vision, then I guess he should change it. However if he's just making these changes to make money....eh...

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by MSperoni

It's his movie.

What about the writers (other than Lucas), actors who ad-libbed some of the most famous and loved lines ("I love you!" "I know."), the director (not Lucas!), etc?

It's only his movie by copyright law, not by right of creation.

Not that this has anything to do with the Dreadful, which IS yours through and through.

Even less so because you're not rewriting or altering old comics. Just producing new ones in a new way. This would be closer to someone complaining about Episode 1 using CGI instead of the models and physical props of Episodes 3-4.

[MSperoni]

Originally Posted by Guntank

I wonder, though: Is HIKYM also going to be changed to the new art style?

...If it ever gets updated again? <_<

HIKYM already pretty much IS in this style. It's just in color. The reason why I was able to switch styles so smoothly w/ The Dreadful is because of HIKYM.

Essentially I'm just drawing The Dreadful how I draw HIKYM. I mean, look at the last page of HIKYM. Look at Fang Lin. SHE HAS LIPS HOLY SHIT.

So...yes, HIKYM will be drawn in this style (but since it already was, that's kinda silly for me to say). The only reason the two styles may look slightly different is because HIKYM is in color and because I have developed artistically since my last page of it. The Dreadful is drawn in the HIKYM style, I'm just better at it now. The Dreadful being in black and white also changes the aesthetic a lot, so it looks more different than it actually is. Also the fact I'm writing The Dreadful and in total control of the page layouts could make it "feel" different (like all those silhouettes for instance). HIKYM has some more anime-effects, like speed-lines and whatnot, but the way I draw the characters is pretty much the same.

Originally Posted by Krylo

LUCAS STUFF.

Yeah that's true... I was mostly thinking of it being his in terms of his story and copyright stuff.

If he owns it, I think he can change it if he wants. I think if people quit buying it then he'd stop. But that's not the case!

Originally Posted by Allamorph

Also, is there any possibility of getting a big wallpaper of the final panel of #61? My gosh that was gorgeous.

I've been thinking of doing a wallpaper of Liz, so I might do something sorta like that

[Michael Morris]

For reference folks, here's a more recent color image by Matt that he did on commission for me.



Color makes a real difference, but I imagine it is a real time eater as well.