Transmission 5 - Life Journey - Section B
Jun 07, 2021
Here is the last part of Life Journey, and the last of this early, strip-cartoon form. Following this, the stories are a little more seriously executed, a little more experimental in style and tone, marking an effort to produce U-Life on a regular basis as well as trying to find a style and method that works. It's also goodbye to my stylistic 'tic' of cramming famous aliens into the background!
Around the time I was finishing this story I was lucky enough to receive some encouraging advice from an experienced professional. One of the things I took away from his email, apart from the fact that he hadn't declared my work utter rubbish (I think he was being kind), was the advice that I was likely to get sued if I included famous alien cameos without permission. Chastened and feeling distinctly 'milky' I left famous aliens out of my next effort, and have tried to avoid doing so ever since. Initially, I thought it was funny to take, say a Dalek or the Mekon and dress them up like a student and have them mooching along in the background. I suppose I was very heavily influenced by the 2000AD work of Dave Gibbons and Alan Davies who often included some 'familiar' faces in the background. But, times and litigation have changed and so although I'll miss adding the 'blitzspear' or the 'Tardis' to a background (did you spot them?), I do have a family to support and so will cease to run the risk of having my rusty metal final stage section sued! So goodbye pastiche, hello some new style serious, hard-working comedy! In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the conclusion to this little story. See you next week for something decidedly 'different'. Whether it's a case of 'different good' or 'different how could you inflict this on my eyes and brain?' is entirely up to you.
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