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UNDERWATER DETECTIVE: page 7

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I hate when my comics have too many ideas. This is a prime example, all those ideas made this UD take forever because its a turning point in the series where I'm forced to build some sort of real atmosphere around the two. The two go into a bar and finally meet the sharks. now what? I really, genuinely wanted there to be a shark gang and a crock gang warring but I couldn't really find any decent motivation for it that wouldn't prevent the comic from being interesting. So, I decided to kind of place the whole comic into some sort of decolonization/apartheid setting where tensions between species is appropriately high. I decided to make the mermen into some European minority figure, but I was worried that that would come across racist, because it suggests that white people are the closest to being human, which is systematically troubling. but it could also be argued that it fits because mermen are a half-creature that doesn't wholly fit into its environment. but that doesn't really satisfy the other implication. So I decided that it actually fits as a satire of things like "The Little Mermaid" where it's assumed that mermen are the supreme law of the land without opposition. and then there's the struggle of really characterizing the sharks and the crocodiles, which I haven't really solved yet. It seems only logical that the crocodiles, who were obviously a take on the sewer gators of New York should be intellectual, cranky New York types, but what the hell should I do with the sharks? I haven't completely figured it out, I felt that making Sharks Australian would be too typical and flat, so I decided to make them largely ruffian and slightly English. I really want to make somebody like the Mongol nomads but I feel like I can't do that mentality justice in comic form. Writing is so easy to encompass it and I could probably do it on film but I somehow I feel like I can't with comics.
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sugarpolyp's avatar
i love this damn comic so much. do you want me to make the lines black on photoshop? it would be much easier to read.