Step # 1

Okay, so let's start with the first notions of what the story is and why I'm doing it.

Over the past months, I've been devouring a couple of manga series, namely the masterpiece Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, and Vagabond, by Takehiko Inoue, and, in the process, gaining a whole bunch of respect about the black and white format and the particular pace of Manga storytelling.

Coming from a gruelling concept design job and wanting to spend a bit of time in my own little world, I jumped at the chance of chaining myself to my drawing table to come up with a story which drank from those inspirations.

So, I dusted off an idea I had in the back of my mind about new beginnings on a post-apocalyptic Earth and a man plagued with an ever present dark side, and got busy.

After brainstorming over concepts that started sprouting from everywhere, I realized the idea I had was too big (and mainly that I was having too much fun) for a single book, so I decided to let the story take the space it needed to grow, instead of trying to constrict all I wanted to tell in a relatively small amount of pages, or worst yet, edit out too many elements of it.

So, I'm going with an open story, set up in chapters of 60 pages each, each with a specific theme and pivotal counterpart to the main character.

That's the plan.

On to the next step, structuring the first chapter and breaking the action into sequences and the sequences into pages.

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