Aime Wichtendahl on Bi-Visibility and Godzilla Preparedness

So what have you thought of your first experience working on a comic book?

I mean, it was definitely a very unique experience.

Like, I will say, you know, because I'm always a, you know, written word artist.

I can't draw to really save my soul.

My sister is the designer and that fact.

But,

you know, one of the things that was always the struggle is

I love writing short stories and I hate being confined by word count.

And then this was kind of that times two because it's like, write the short story, take all the high points, and really distill it down and then distill it down again to fit in eight pages.

And that is an absolute challenge.

But like it's it's I mean, having seen the artwork on it, I think it's it's very worth it.

And to just be able to see, you know, a story told more in a visual medium than than just a kind of written in medium, especially something that you know, I had the chance to to collaborate on.

But I mean, it's it's definitely a first for me to work in the comic book space.

But I've always been curious about it, too, because I do have it's the unpublished novel that I don't know will ever come out was basically was designed to be my second novel.

And it was like after I got done with the butterfly in the flame, I just wanted to write a book about guns and girls.

And just it's been sitting in a drawer for several years.

But Honestly, I think it'd make a much better visual novel or graphic novel than probably an actual novel, because I think it's given the heightened action scenes, you know, combat scenes, things like that.

It's better for that medium.

But yeah, no, it's been a tremendous, tremendous process working on this.

And it's great to see it all come together.

If only you had a collaborator that knew a thing or two about making comics.

no but like your action scenes are very illustrative like that was the thing that i'm like this has to translate to the page like you had a moment about like one high-powered rifle shot ringing out over like small arms fire and i'm like oh we have visual sound effects for that we can have a big old bang panel with that written out and that's just accepted here you can't really do that in a piece of prose fiction so i would love to get my hands into that other story and see like Do we

got a comic here? I mean, I would I'll have to I mean, definitely happy to send some of that over just because I know action scenes specifically, I think, can be, you know, having having writer feedback on that story.

I think for a lot of people, some people, when they get to like action scenes in novels, be like kind of skim through it because they're like, OK, yeah, a lot of things happening.

And I think it's sometimes hard for people to visually imagine like an active battle scene where you have.