Alien Romance, the daily comic strip

[gs_silva]

It was getting labor-intensive, so I had to rush it and post it. Lots to do today, and I have to work on my book a little bit too.

If I don't know where the plot is going, sometimes I throw in a dance scene. I guess I really want this story to be a musical.

Comments

[brumeier]

So much fun! You did a great job suggesting the crowd, and showing everyone getting involved with the sing-a-long. I'd have been dancing too!

[gs_silva]

Daaaance party!

[tesariel]

This is so sweet. I love the way you draw them dancing.

[gs_silva]

Thanks! It's great to see you here! <3

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> It was getting labor-intensive, so I had to rush it and post it. Lots to do today, and I have to work on my book a little bit too.<<

It still looks good.

>>If I don't know where the plot is going, sometimes I throw in a dance scene. I guess I really want this story to be a musical.<<

*laugh* Have you seen musical fanfic? I've seen some that are musical episodes, and one that's in the universe where everything is musical.

Re: Thoughts

[gs_silva]

I haven't seen musical fanfic, but I've had some enthusiastic enough reactions that I'm sure it has to exist. Music resonates widely, after all!

I also get some cynical reactions. When I tell other comic creators that I think dance scenes should be as fundamental to the medium as fight scenes, they look at me like they want me to shut up and go away.

(Spoiler: I did not shut up and go away.)

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I haven't seen musical fanfic, but I've had some enthusiastic enough reactions that I'm sure it has to exist. Music resonates widely, after all! <<

Exactly, music is a universal language.

>>I also get some cynical reactions. When I tell other comic creators that I think dance scenes should be as fundamental to the medium as fight scenes, they look at me like they want me to shut up and go away.<<

It's okay to draw fight scenes if that's what they enjoy. However, it puts them in a very crowded field. The more is written / drawn about a given motif, the harder it becomes to create something new and interesting.

Conversely, if you create things where there is little or nothing else, that minimizes competition and ensures that people who want that topic will stick with you if they realize you're doing it. I do this a lot. It's also why Isaac Asimov wrote the Three Laws of Robotics: he was bored with everyone else's evil robots.

>> (Spoiler: I did not shut up and go away.) <<

*high five*

Re: Thoughts

[gs_silva]

I have exactly one fight scene, and I couldn't figure out how to draw it using the usual fight scene pose tutorials that are everywhere. So I watched some parking lot brawls and then drew it like I drew my sex scenes. (Just because high degrees of physical contact were required in several of the panels.)

I still think it's one of the funniest and most impactful scenes I've ever drawn! Not sure I'd do it again, though.

Jon really wants to be in a fight scene someday, so I may make an exception if I can create a scenario for him.

[no_apologies]

That's so wholesome, drawing the multiple characters participating in a sing-along. You're a really good artist! Even though it looks a little rushed, it still looks great!

No worries about trying to catch up with everything I share all at once. Please, do so at your own pace! I'm kinda slowing it down for now.

I have started the story idea I wanted to do with Fritz, at least two of the other members of his band (Razz and Tom), and my own character. I only just started, and it'll be a while until I write out in my mind as to how Fritz did the blooper "YAY!!" in the unpublished first take of my Linda Kelly song happened.

[gs_silva]

Wait... when you say, "and my own character," do you mean that Fritz et al are borrowed? I searched for Screamo-Emo but all I found were explanations of what the genres of screamo and emo are, and your Suno page. I didn't look really hard, though, admittedly.

So the band is called Screamo-Emo and it does screamo, emo, and electronica (and whatever else people are calling subgenres... the names and categories seem ephemeral sometimes) (I'd never heard of screamo as a subgenre but it's pretty self-descriptive)...

I've joined a mostly-fanfic community here on DW and they're fans of a lot of properties that I've never heard of, and canon vs OC vs AU is suddenly a tangle of concepts I'm unequipped to sort out, and that's fine with me. I told them that I'll respond to everything they write at face value without caring about who owns what element or where it all comes from.

So that's where my head is at. Same promise goes to you: I'll enjoy your work on its own merit. I'm just curious if any part of it is fanfic. I didn't think it was, but then again I'm used to not knowing much about pop culture!

[no_apologies]

No, no no. I meant myself as my own character. A self-insert. ^^; Sorry I wasn't very clear on that! I have had this story idea in my mind to be there when the guy goes "YAY!!" in the middle of finding the perfect, pretty and vulnerable melody for the newest song. Writing out the moment is too funny and too adorable to just pass up on.

https://suno.com/persona/e45a1bae-3de6-42e4-a236-ea44a08ab7fe here's the link to most of the songs that include Fritz's vocal performances! Linda Kelly isn't on there, because I had to edit and replace some sections to improve it. I have no idea why that is, but oh well. It was MUCH more important for Fritz, his bandmates, and I put our all into making such a fantastic song!! Which can be heard here: https://suno.com/s/wvlJwlYJO3redHdp

Everything about Fritz himself isn't fandom related. It's more of an original character, based on what I've been picking up about him all week long.

[aprilangeldollbaby]

HAHA Love this comic book strip!!!! And we all need a musical at some point.