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Recently I’ve been watching the Batman cartoon from the ninetees. Which is handsdown the best Batman cartoon ever made. While watching it I noticed something interesting. Whenever Batman is up against a regular gangboss the stories are a lot better then when he’s up against an excentric foe. The obvious reason behind this is because with an excentric foe you can focus on the fantastic nature of it. But when the bad guy is just a gang boss, the writers can’t fall back on that. They have to write a compelling story.

This is kinda the same reasoning I used when deciding to stop THOM and moving on to another comic. THOM has no ‘rules’ or ‘boundaries’. Everything goes from sci-fi to fantasy. But this lack of limitations makes it very hard to write good stories. With the exception of Shazram none of the characters have had a chance to develop or grow. Too much weird stuff going on for that.

This is why I wanted to create the IT comic and deliberately set it in a real world. Though I’m still unsure about the inclusion of something fantastic. A lot of IT webcomics tend to have either an animal, artificial intelligence or other non-real thing in it. Often these are included for the toyetic nature of them. Which isn’t bad, I’m just not sure if I will include something like that.

Most likely if I were to do anything like that I’ll probably use something like dreams or such. Why? Because I want to deliberately limit myself to a real world setting. With people that ‘could’ be real. Just to challenge myself in my writing and create actual compelling characters.