Halo 3 Webcomics

If you haven’t yet, check out Part 1 before reading this.

Right, here’s the moment people have been waiting for. Whoever has been waiting for it, I’ll need to tell you that you need to do something while waiting instead of sitting on a chair for months on end for the next thing.

Oh wait, that sounds a lot like myself.

Getting to the point, the title should have clue’d you in. This is the second part to the planning guide written by HolyJunkie the Big Bag of Fail.

PLANNING SOME MORE!

You probably learned in Part 1 that the planning stage should be called ”[Title of Comic] Plotline” (or “HolyJunkie sucks!”, as it gives the same impression.) so you can identify it when you pull it out of a flash drive, hard drive, binder, notebook, or wherever you wrote the plan. Every plan needs a character list, a general synopsis, and generalized details in the individual chapters.

If you do have this, listen read closely, starting now.

What you do now is determine what sets you plan to use for it. That shall be covered in a fully detailed Forge Guide. That would be coing soon, but I doubt it would be written by myself. In fact, you’re probably better off visiting Forgehub for some sort of forging guide; seeing as they’re the experts in that field, and we’re more concentrated on making epic literary win.

Depending on the setting you put up in the generalized synopsis, you’ll have topick your maps. After you pick your maps, forge in the details, or download maps made by fellow Community Comrades… By that, I mean the Bungie Forums. Once you have the maps, THEN you can start planning in the details.

It’s rather simple. Just start off with something that looks a little like this:
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PAGE [insert number here]
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Once you have that, put up what should happen within that page. I once again use my own DEAD as an example.

When I have a character’s thoughts or some narrative on the screen, I put in a different symbol than actual spoken dialogue. Here’s an example from PAGE 2.
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PAGE 2

(Jakob finds the place to be relatively desolate. Is annoyed by the fact that he has the feeling that he’s being watched.)

_… Combined with the dreadful feeling that you’re being watched.

+Hello?

_Always bugs me… Well, might as well try to find some life.

_Schizophrenia or not, I won’t lose to damned illusions.
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I usually use Underscores ( _ ) to signify narrative or character’s thoughts while I use the addition symbol (or plus sign) ( + ) for actually spoken dialogue.

... It works because it’s not punctuation you usually use in ordinary written stuff. Much like you will almost never use the “Z” key unless you’re an internet meatbag who says “plzzzz” a lot, or you’re Mildred Z. Maxwell. To get the joke in that, read the play “Done To Death” by Fred Carmichael.

Also, in the frame, I give the general idea of what happens in that certain page before going into details. Here’s the full thing:
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PAGE 2

Jakob looks at where Usne was just a second ago, sees nothing. Mutters stuff about his annoyance of being watched, along with his mental condition before walking towards the tree shown in PAGE 3.

_… Combined with the dreadful feeling that you’re being watched.

+Hello?

_Always bugs me… Well, might as well try to find some life.

_Schizophrenia or not, I won’t lose to damned illusions.
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That’s pretty simple. I’m not sure if there will be a part 3. Leave comments asking about stuff I might have missed. If you do, there will no-doubt be a part 3 for you guys to read and say “Hey! HolyJunkie sucks more than ever!”

-HolyJunkie.