Zoe 4-6
on April 23, 2020
at 11:27 pm
Poor Zoe. One thing I want to do with this reboot is get across all the stuff that makes Zoe tick that didn’t really get covered in the past version of the comic. Trying to weave it into the story naturally, but this arc (and the next one) will be very focused on depressed Zoe. Gunna do my best to avoid exposition dumps and dialogue that is forced. It’s a challenge, and I know many want a happy Zoe that is off fucking everyone she meets (she will get there, but give it time).
If you wanna do some exposition dumping, maybe add an extra panel on the bottom that’s mostly text (less drawing) that is maybe a diary entry of someone that day covering the event.
The arc after the next will be Zoe talking to a therapist, that can set up a future sexual partner while also working in little pieces of exposition without it hitting you over the head.
And while a diary would work in a lot of instances it wouldn’t really work here. Zoe is trying to stick her fingers in her ears and ignore the things that are depressing her… Though I do have something sort of like that coming up with a drawing kinda expressing her fears.
Thanks for commenting. Always appreciate having a vocal audience I can soundboard things off of. Maybe as “homework” her therapist could make her open up in a diary, I could see her put a few words down like “I’m afraid to death of death” then frustrated tear it up not wanting to face those fears and give voice to them…
Seems like Zoe’s dad looks a lot like Damien. That could be a fun angle to explore.
It was a conscious decision, wanted to add another level of why Zoe is so close with Damien. but it is just surface, there is no relation there.
Little Zoe wanted to be a witch. Way better than a princess!
Is that her life-size Dracula cutout over to the right?
Little Zoe had a love of the macabre long before she took up the Vampire identity. It was a bit of everything back then, where now she found a clear love of vampire movies, but still likes others, except werewolves… (twilight and underworld drew a line in the sand for her, vampire or werewolf, and she made her choice).
As for the cutout. Yes 😀 I am trying to put a lot more effort into the backgrounds, Damien has posters of 50s monster movies, and Zoe has her Dracula (which at some point will gain a dildo…)
aww..
Man you don’t see a lot of labeled birthday hats.
yeah, but I wanted some lightening of the mood for the page and the joke reads clearer if you cross out birthday to put witch. Also it is expository to show that even as a small child Zoe had an imagination and love for horror, and that her parents didn’t discourage it.
Jumping from Zoe trying to perform self cunnilingus to suddenly bawling about her dad is rather sudden. Could’ve used a transition between these two pages.
Well I did have a transition, in the dialogue. Her sounding defeated saying “school is a waste”. But yeah I could of added a panel of her plopping down to start the page (and was what I originally planned to do) but when I decided to have the vision of her childhood I thought putting a panel up there would distract from what I wanted this page to get across. From the second page of the reboot she has been having a conversation with her dad, that today she was going to be a woman, and it was going to be great. Really wanted to drive home how bad this night went for her, which, her failure to eat herself out was but a tiny piece of.
But yeah I know it is a bit jarring, hoping that when people read the arc in its entirety they’ll get what I was going for and let that rough edge slide.