100 Days of Making Comics Challenge!! Day 21-22

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So I had a V-8 moment when I realized I've been doing it wrong, or at least not the way I use to do things that worked for me. See a long time ago (15 yrs) I had made a couple of comics own my own. Came real close to getting them published, had a preview order ad in Diamond Distributions Catalog and everything, except.... I had no money for printing and my credit was for shit so I could take out a loan. Then came the dark year when I teamed up with a group of hapless assholes who did everything in their power to drain my soul away. They nearly succeeded, DeviantArt was a creative life, which eventually became a crutch. 

But enough about yesteryear, today I now know and I am working the old way, the right way. What ways is that you might ask (but probably not)? Draw out the full layout first, then write the script to fit. This maybe totally backasswards to most people but it worked so well for me in the past. I'm not the best writer, in fact I'm pretty bad. Putting my ideas down in words is just not up my alley. So when I started for some fuck reason to write the script first, it came the creative feat of moving a hundred car freight train with the last forty cars are off the track. I think I heard that it was the thing to do and I was so eager to get out of my creative slump that I would try damn near anything to just get rolling. So I've started my old-new process and I hope to have something to show soon.

Here's a sample of my old work. Gawd what a n00b I was, I even used Comic Sans, what the hell!?
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Two steps forward, one step back is still progress!  Keep it up! ^_^v