Thread:Stoop Davy Dave/@comment-25067773-20140616000303/@comment-6369172-20140720224306

So it's like a month later now, and I'm looking over my reply, and seeing how it doesn't even really seem to address what your question was about. Plenty of static about whatever was preoccupying ME that day, but nothing that looks even slightly useful to a new pagewriter. Sometimes I just suck like that. So anyway, here's what seems to me like good advice: focus on what's actually happening in the stories, one fact at a time; think like a reporter. Anything that happens at a specific time or in a specific place, try to identify that. Character names and names of devices and vehicles, of course, but if you spot what day of the week it is, or a clue about the geography of the story, that's gold. And of course ... Anything that's absurd (and there's no shortage of absurdity in these comics) try to lay out as dryly as possible. Don't let the reader hear you laughing, in other words. Now that's the more thoughtful answer I should have laid out last month, and I hope it helps. ~ Stoop Davy Dave