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Blind Date Exchange 2021, part 2

Blind Date Exchange 2021, part 2
Blind Date Exchange 2021, part 2
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Cartoonist_at_Large 24th Mar 2024, 5:48 AM
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Fascinating fact: this crossover exchange story was initially going to be the first one to be built around one of my parody songs! That honour, however, eventually went to the Halloween story of 2021 - because, for all my good intentions, it didn't quite work out as I anticipated. As sign-ups for the Blind Date Exchange got under way, I was listening to Warren Zevon's 'Werewolves of London', when said song title morphed (as things do, inside my head) into 'Blind date malfunction' - and it occurred to me that serendipity was giving me a fairly unsubtle hint that I might want to put that and my upcoming comic story together into one unified whole. Once I got my assignment, I roughed out the story (Hienna gets shackled to Tony Corvell for a day, gritted teeth and facial tics ensue) and began putting ideas together for parody song lyrics; based - sort of - on Mr. Zevon's lycanthropic classic. The problem was, every parody song develops differently, and this one - like several others in the past - was deciding to drag its heels and not get anywhere. This, in turn, stopped me from properly drawing up any comic pages: the visuals would depend on what the song lyrics were going on about at that particular moment, and no song lyrics.... well, no pictures. Usually, when I'm doing a parody song story, I'm working (at my own leisure) from lyrics that I've already completed; not having to write them up on demand, under time pressure, while simultaneously doing the art. So all I had, really, were bits of lyrics and a big ol' tub of writers block. However.... my brain then had the thought 'Hang on - why not just take those bits, put them together with some new, complementary bits, and write it up as a poem instead?' Why not, indeed? No need to worry about matching anything line-for-line with 'Werewolves of London', and it would be a quicker and more streamlined thing to put together - fewer words to juggle, for one thing - which could be structured exactly as I needed it to be. Thus, it was crafted, and thus, I actually got the story completed and handed in on time! I was even able to insert a little easter egg into the artwork on page 3: does the graphic of Tony in Hienna's 'Femme-nalysis' panel look familiar? Well, it should: that character pose (vector art, and assembled as part of the panel on Adobe Illustrator) originally showed up as artwork in the Cosmos Monster Movie Survival Guide short film!

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