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Postby jcmoorehead » Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:27 pm

No illicit relations? I'll give each of the couples half an hour before they're doing it. Although that might just be my dirty mind talking :P

In seriousness, really nice to see this back and I enjoyed the chapter. Looks like things are starting to move forward, wonder where it will lead from now onwards.

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Postby GrummanCat » Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:40 pm

Hello everyone. Welcome to the new discussion thread EVA-303 is (not) dead.

It has been quite a while since I had anything to say. I feel beyond low-key at this point. The one thing I have always clung to is a personal insistence that EVA-303 is NOT dead. It would be finished. The best most important things I wanted to show are still to come and there are probably less than 5 chapters left to go! After pushing it through for so many years(!) I can honestly say that I finally became full-fledged burnt out. :sniffle:

I honestly have no idea how many of my readers are still here. Names like Bagheera, Eric Blair, JCmoorehead, Chaddyman, Literary Eagle, PWHodges, the list literally goes on and on. But... just in case the old crew has been better at keeping with it than me, I wanted to start talking again.

I'm coming up on a milestone on my DA account and I have decided- since EVA is still a major portion of what made me at all, to use the occasion to re-launch EVA-303 for the final push.

And that's where you all come in.


It comes down to this- even before I got burnt out on EVA, I had this feeling that I was somehow losing my way. And the last thing I wanted to do was finish EVA-303 with a whimper. I spent too much time bitching at Anno to do that myself. The last few chapters (particularly Rei/Kaworu chapter 18 and 19) didn't seem to resonate the way classic chapters from Volume 2 did. Volume 2 had some stuff I was really proud of, particularly the struggle between Shinji and Asuka and the way it was resolved.

So PLEASE, gentle readers, if you still have your memories of EVA-303 and what you liked about it, please talk to me. What made EVA-303 great for you and why did you keep reading it? What do you remember most fondly? What did you want to see more of? When was EVA-303 at its best?

Don't get me wrong- I still know how the story ends, but how exactly we get there, I want to hear from you! Please. :bigeyes:

EVA-303 needs a restart and I need a reconnection with my readers, if in fact you are still there.
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Postby ChaddyManPrime » Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:32 am

I like how you dealt with Shinji and Asuka blossoming love. It had just the right amount of angst. It's honestly the only relationship I've ever had serious interest in, in Eva, and you've done it well.
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Postby GrummanCat » Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:36 am

It feels like I'm gaining interest again, which is the main reason I'm here. :D

I'm letting it grow stably and healthily. Within the next day or so, I'll be drawing some random stuff and writing the rest of the scenes for Chapter 20.
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Postby jcmoorehead » Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:49 am

Meant to reply to this yesterday. Well for me I liked the concept, it's always interesting to see people take Eva and put it into a different setting as you did. Aside from that I really enjoyed the relationships in the story, I thought it was handled well and the way the story developed was good.

(Also the fan-service was also very very good too :tongue: )

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Postby Literary Eagle » Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:51 pm

Nice to hear from you again, GrummanCat! I think the way you've developed Shinji and Asuka's relationship has been interesting so far, and I especially liked that you accomplished it without treating Rei and Kaworu like garbage (character bashing is one of my biggest pet peeves in fan fiction). I look forward to finding out where you'll take the story next! ^_^
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Postby ChaddyManPrime » Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:14 pm

@ Literary Eagle

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Postby pwhodges » Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:44 pm

I look forward to the revival of your enthusiasm.

I was particularly pleased with the way you got Shinji and Asuka together in the end. As I recall (but I'd need to go back to remind myself, so this might not be very appropriate), I felt that the following chapters were to some extent coasting through setting up what's still to come. But certainly I would be delighted to see a new continuation!
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Postby GrummanCat » Fri Sep 22, 2017 8:20 pm

Thank you guys for checking in! My more vocal readers have been the life blood of this comic and without you I doubt I could keep it up.

I have been on my own quest to reconnect with the elements that I thought worked about EVA-303 but hearing from others somehow makes it sink in more.

I feel really good that the things I still have to say will resonate with my readers and the elements of the climax will cause a lot of discussion. There are still a lot of things big things that are going to happen but people have no idea. They will probably be excited to see them.

Most of the remaining character angst still takes place between you-know-who but it's not rehash. I'm hoping to dig in to both Asuka/Kaji and Mistao/Kaji in the new chapter.
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Postby GrummanCat » Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:22 pm

Fans of aerial dogfighting should be pleased. The chapter opens with Mistao mixing it up with her pupils (and we get to see Misato actually flying something :w00t: )
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Postby KingXanaduu » Sun Oct 01, 2017 4:39 pm

Sorry for the late reply, been busy myself, not dead. XD

But YES GrummanCat, I am excited for the newest chapters of Eva 303. When it comes to heart-warming Eva fics in the fandom, yours are comics that I look forward to in terms of our favorite characters coming out stronger and better than before.

Your stories are dramatic, graphic in emotion, but heartwarming that make us so happy that our favorite characters find that little sense of peace and happiness that we all hope to achieve someday. :)
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Postby GrummanCat » Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:30 am

Thanks Xander! Your words mean a lot.

It's funny how creativity can run like a river. For most of the last year, doing ANYthing on EVA-303 felt like going to the doctor. Then I'm laying in bed 2 nights ago, trying to fall asleep when suddenly I'm writing the big Misato/Kaji reunion scene in my head! Woah, I've figured out how to connect (spoiler plot point) to (spoiler plot point)! And just like that I'm downstairs writing the scene out on actual paper because I turned my computer off. To hell with work tomorrow. :P

I'm still not at the point yet where I am ready to draw the actual panels, but this has been building for a while. It kinda feels like it did way back when I was originally starting the comic- lots of preparation work and writing before the actual drawing.
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Postby SawItAtAge10 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 11:27 am

I do hope you come back to this project...or is it dead completely now?
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Postby GrummanCat » Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:54 am

EVA-303 is alive as long as I'm alive (and I'm not that old).

The problem is other hobbies have taken me off drawing. It has spread to all my drawing. When EVA went on hiatus I started doing a lot of Zootopia OC stuff. But now the radio controlled stuff has stopped the Zootopia story too.

Over the last couple of months I've been starting to feel a little burned out on other stuff so I hope that in the first half of 2019 I can channel my energies back to drawing and Eva.

I still love Eva and EVA-303. I know how it ends and I really want to show everyone. I am optimistic.

Thank you for taking the time to check in. I always appreciate it when my readers check in. Often it starts me working again so keep it up! :devil:
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Postby pwhodges » Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:33 pm

View Original PostGrummanCat wrote:EVA-303 is alive as long as I'm alive (and I'm not that old).

I am, though! :tongue:
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Postby GrummanCat » Wed Feb 27, 2019 1:25 am

Hello all! I bring news. Yes it's been quiet for a while but I wanted to wait until I had something TANGIBLE to share and I do.

It seems the NERV has struck me again to write and after thinking about it for all of one day I sat down and cranked out the first scene in script. It's actually a good sign when I can write a whole scene in a couple of minutes. It means that whatever I'm doing is inspired.

I am asking readers to put up with a short-ish chapter so I can 'ease into this thing' with a manageable chapter. Typically a chapter will have 4 or 5 major scenes and I see 3 scenes for this one but they are all pretty tightly connected so it makes sense just to let this be one of the smaller chapters. And it will feel just as good to have it done as any chapter.

So far, I'm grappling with Asuka's emotions upon being confronted with Kaji again.
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Postby GrummanCat » Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:12 am

First scene sketched. This chapter has got a major scene between Misato and Kaji. We also explore what happened between Asuka and Kaji.
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Postby pwhodges » Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:04 pm

Hooray for progress! I hope it's making you feel good, too.
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Postby GrummanCat » Thu Feb 28, 2019 8:39 pm

I DO! This is exactly the way I wanted to come back to it. Not because I HAVE to but because I want to. I do crap when I'm forced (well, crappy-ER :p )

Last night I was thinking and what I really want is to be in basically constant production between now and the end of the comic. After this chapter, I'm gonna sit down and outline every remaining chapter. I'm guessing we're down to the last 5 chapters at most? It would be nice if I wrapped up the comic in time for the 10th anniversary LOL.

The neat thing is that I'm back to daydreaming about the comic- writing scenes in my head for example. Reminds me of the old days.

But after 2 years off, I've got some work to do just in terms of bringing my audience back. :bigeyes:

EDIT-- Crap! I see that Bagheera has been permabanned. :cringe: I will miss that dude! Anyone know where I can find him? I hate losing touch.
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Postby GrummanCat » Mon Mar 11, 2019 1:39 am

Well guys, I guess this is for real.

Tonight marks my 3rd straight week of chapter production. I expect to have the new chapter out later this month. And rolling right into Chapter 21 the week after. :D
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