THE GIANT DAYS SELF-PUBLISHED ARCHIVE IS BACK UP!

FROM GIANT DAYS #2

One of the most controversial, and defining, scenes of Giant Days #2 was when Esther cheats on Eustace, or “The Boy”. At least, I think it was controversial. There were no comments under the comic in those days so I had, most days, no idea what anybody thought. Innocent times! Confusing times.

The second self-published Giant Days comic, which was drawn two and a half years after the first, refines the idea of the series a little. A break from the Scary Go Round “lore” seemed important at the time, which meant The Boy had to go. Esther was always a little mercurial, and there are noises in the final Scary Go Round comics where it’s clear that she isn’t going to hold on to things too tight. So it was just about in-character, but I thought of it as a watershed for her too, a low point personally that she would work hard not to repeat. Steve Shields is horrible, too, she’s pulling an emergency brake here.

It’s crazy to think that the Giant Days idea was basically dead when I dug out a couple of pages of a second issue I’d started in 2010, and made this second one. I’d sent the first issue to Oni Press (who had agreed to publish Bad Machinery) as a proof of concept, and received no response at all. But as I have learned throughout my career, comics publishers ghosting you is just their way of keeping your mental health in tippity-top shape. After I sold a shedload of Giant Days #1 at conventions, I decided that maybe I should have a little faith in my instincts. BELIEVE!

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