25 O'Clock

We've got a full plot now for "25 O'Clock", which we have tentatively decided will be the first story in the new Progressions minicomics, which will be coming out early this year.

"25 O'Clock" is a New Year's Eve story, in which Henry Anton and Pam Sage recount their adventures on the eve of Minerva City's bicentennial. It will be 16 pages, black and white and grey tones.

Stephen is working on the dialogue now, and I've been pacing it out into panel layouts, working out what to show and what angles to use and so on. There are some fun techniques in this story which make it a bit more complex than some of our others. Still, it fits in the same vein as "Skyline" from the minicomic, it's that kind of adventure.

The current plan is to finish "Dance Dance Resolution" first, then begin work on "25 O'Clock" and "1001 Vicious Blows", finishing those up during January and February. Then "25 O'Clock" will be the first minicomic we do in 2005, and we'd like to find a different venue to publish "Vicious Blows".

Once "Resolution", "25" and "Vicious" are complete, I'll begin work on Academy Angel, the first book of the Anton/Sage Mysteries, which will also be serialized in the minicomic and website.

Jeff