beyond Infinity?

[scarfman]

Since last summer when I made four Flash movies to found an animated journal webcomic and then school started again, I've completed one more, and rejected two or three more scripts as too ambitious or too lame or just-haven't-gotten-to. This is disappointing not just because I enjoyed making movies on my home computer when I did it in the late 80s and early 90s, but because my Daily journal comics of the 20th century featured not just appearances by people I liked to know I think of them, but appearances by some invented characters I think are clever and would entertain people on the www; hence the movies' umbrella title Infinity Labs. I'm thinking of putting off wowwing the world with my 1337 4n!m47!0n ski11z till retirement, and scanning original pencil Dailes for the Infinity Labs site.

The last time when I revived what's called at the original fanfiction website "original Dailies", and at AKOTAS "blue binder cartoons", was on the original fanfiction website. That was the 2003-2004 triangle Dailies season, when I didn't foresee that I'd ever move on from drawing daily at the fanfiction site. Original Dailies appeared three times a week, alternating with fanfiction triangle Dailies and King Arthur in Time and Space triangle Dailies, for only a year till I started Arthur, King of Time and Space, rendering just enough of my invented scenarios' history to tantalize at least one reader I could name.

The time before that when I revived the blue binder cartoons was in the early 90s. We'd just moved to Louisville from Chicago, and I'd come to know our new circle of friends well enough to feel I could write them. Differently from the 70s and 80s, I decided to segregate all copyright infringements out of the blue binder¹, and replace them with thinly-veiled parodies of themselves. This also affected the Labs overtly: in Chicago they'd been named after Moebius Theatre, the comedy troupe which performs at conventions of which I was a member in the 80s and which, in the Dailies, was also a front for our secret space program. A lot of Moebius Theatre material had been adapted into Moebius Labs backstory in 80s Dailies, and all that was the original writers' copyrights and had to go, along with the Star Trek and Doctor Who and the Lab's original name.

In Louisville in the 90s I continued developing my invented scenarios, including an origin for Akili Tembo the humaniform elephant who'd been a classmate of mine in high school and a dormmate in college, which is worth mentioning in the present context because it's the aspect of the web original Dailies which intrigued the reader I mentioned above. In order to familiarize my Louisville pals with the invented scenarios' backstories, for a while in addition to regular Dailies I drew Flashback Dailies², revising events chronicled in 70s and 80s Dailies to excise the copyright infringements.

If I decide to revamp the Infinity Labs site for the old classic Dailies, I'll start by scanning and posting these Flashback Dailies. When I've got through them, I'll scan and post selected actual 90s Dailies featuring important developments in invented scenarios, or just good jokes³. Then I may start actually drawing pencil Dailies again, adapting important developments drawn for the 2003-2004 web "original" Dailies to the format of the Infinity Labs site cartoons. (Redrawing them would be required for continuity as well as format, because in the web "original" Dailies I forsook the binder Dailes' copyright infringements' thinly-veiled parodies for their King Arthur in Time and Space analogs, and the KAITAS analogs would need to be re-replaced with the thinly-veiled parodies.) That depends on whether I think I can maintain a second webcomic with AKOTAS, which I plan to keep my primary project until May 21, 2029, which means even the scanning of old Dailies will probably only post Monday-Wednesday-Friday instead of every day. The Infinity Labs cartoon website's format would continue even at this point to be scanned pencil strips with no post-production, so it would be easier to maintain alongside AKOTAS than a second full-color, computer-lettered and -layout, daily comic.

Then I might just continue drawing pencil Dailies, continuing the Labs' story on the Infinity Labs site, as I meant to do with last year's movies⁴.

Who knows, it might take me till May 21, 2029 to get that far.

¹ And into a light blue binder of their own, where they were called "Hero Dailies", the precursor of the fanfiction Dailies of the original fanfiction website. I drew Hero Dailies only three or four days a week.
² Flashback Dailies also were kept in their own, dark blue binder and were not drawn every day of the week. Plus I eventually naturally reached the end of them.
³ That is, such jokes if any which can't be instead adapted to AKOTAS.
⁴ I also toy with the idea of soliciting triangle Infinity Labs movie scripts from my friends.