How it could've been...

Hey friends,

Here's a behind-the-scenes exclusive: dialogue before it was dialogue. That is, before I settled on the method of blanking out existing words, I tried some other ways of conveying dialogue since the focus of this comic is the images, with the words being there as illustrations/ coz people want it/ red herring, etc.

So here's what was Idea #1, colours for speech:

good idea, but since I printed the comic in BW, it wasn't going to work.

Idea #2, recurring objects in speech bubbles - again, great idea, but very time-consuming:

Then I thought, since the dialogue is largely irrelevant, why not jibberish? But again, veeeery time-consuming: 

So I instead just blank out existing words, which creates new dialogue without adding anything to it. The results are either funny, weird, juvenile or - something. Idea #4:

So there ya have it. More of this sweet-sweet chop-chop poetry - soon.