That One Blorbo

Okay, so all of us here may or may not have one or more characters that we favor in our webcomics that we rotate in our minds slightly more than the other characters.

We're gonna borrow the term Blorbo for whoever this is in your webcomic project, but webcomics take time, if you didn't know that, and telling a compelling story might make it so that you go a couple of scenes, sometimes even years, without that exciting Blorbo in the story.

So let's talk about that itch, that compulsion, because it can be a major motivating factor that keeps you fueled in your comic journey, but it can also be a roadblock when you're making parts of the story that don't involve them.

So opening question is, what are your experiences with the Blorbo obsession? Which of your comics characters are currently in your brain or were in your brain in the past, and how did they get there? And I'm throwing the Blorbo to Bob.

And I have been hit in the face with the blur bow.

Oh, God.

Violence.

What sounds

does the blur bow make when it hits your face?

Kind of like, you know.

Oh, so violent.

Get the wind blown out of him a little bit.

That's it.

Okay, so rolling up my sleeves, literally.

So I have two big Blorbos that I kinda wanna talk about because they have very different roles in their respective stories.

So the way that I dealt with them was very different.

So my first Blorbo is Belmont.

And Belmont is from my webcomic Demon of the Underground.

He's really just barely from my webcomic Demon of the Underground because he's basically like presented in this story as a kind of minor, annoying antagonist who doesn't have a very big or meaningful character arc in that particular story.

He's mostly there just to kind of cause trouble for the characters who the story is actually about.

But he's just so fun to write.

And I was like, ah, like I need to write more of this guy.

And so I did what I often do, which is I like to wind down at night by just, you know, dabbling in a little prose on my little laptop until I'm too tired to write sentences that make any sense.

And so I was doing that for one of the other major characters in the story, Merritt.

I was just kind of dabbling at his backstory and his backstory is where he interacts with Belmont.