Summer, 1996.
Deciding that all the characters are too weird to be the basis for
a TV show, the character “Joe” is created to ground the story with an
everyman character. Other
characters undergo a few changes, and one notable character is split in
half, becoming two separate characters.
Summer, 1996.
The Building 12 project is once again put on the back-burner in order to work on
the project “ACHERON” (a poster for which appears in Craze’s room),
a science fiction story set in an alternate universe.
Fall, 1996.
All artistic projects are dropped to work on the film project “SPF Infinity”, a
16mm film short about vampires and ingestible sun block.
The film turns out to be a disaster and will hopefully never see
the light of day again. It
was just “bad”, seriously.
Spring, 1997. Chris and Iron spend the semester interning in Los Angeles with several other people who had become B12 characters. Due to a staggering lack of female characters, Chris adds the characters of Alex and Tia to the cast.
"Who the f*** is that other blonde girl?" you may be asking. Well... that's Yuki. Well, she eventually would be, anyway. At this point, her name was Alice, but she was nearly the same character.
Notice how "leggy" all the characters are. This bothers me much more now than it did then. They look positively freakish. How the hell does Alex tie her shoes? Seriously. Poor Brian looks like he's had about 6 inches of spine removed, and poor Tia's right boob seems mysteriously glued to her shoulder. I can't remember if these were drawn the semester before or after I took figure drawing, but damn I needed to work on my anatomy.
Note that Craze is currently wearing an "Acheron II" t-shirt. Pretty pretentious of me to have him wearing a shirt for the sequel to a project I never made the first part of isn't it? Yeah, I'm an ass. :P
Summer, 1997.
Chris writes the teleplays to what he envisions as the first two
episodes of a 6 part OAV. The
scripts are fairly close to issues one and two of Building 12 the comic.
The title is changed from “It Ended in a Bloodbath from Hell”,
to the terribly unwieldy “Battleground U, Building12:
It all ended in a Bloodbath from Hell (Loosely based on an
interpretation of the somewhat true-ish story of my college
experience)”.
Summer, 1997.
Christian Milik, a friend and partner from earlier projects is cast
for a potential radio-drama version of the teleplays and a possible pilot
episode in the role of “Jack”. Neither
project pans out.
Fall, 1997.
Building 12 is placed on the back-burner again both for the 16mm film project
“Screw The Intern” (based on Iron and Chris’ experiences interning
in Los Angeles), and to set aside time to work on art for the mythological
motivated story and artwork for the project “Nether Flux Gate” a/k/a
“Zuriel’s War Chronicles” (Craze wears an NFG shirt in issue 1).
Fall, 1997.
Chris meets Third-child.
