Author Notes
THIS IS COOPER BULLET. OR, WAS.
Published in 2022 and made over the course of a year, this was the first attempt to try and make Jennifer Austere and Arthur Brooks' story off the ground. The way the comic's story was delivered is supposed to mimic the first Lupin III manga chapter and subsequently the first Arsène Lupin book.
Unfortunately, while the art is admittedly pretty in a lot of parts, it was riddled with numerous problems, both story-wise and production-wise. To sum it up, it was just a mess. The art took a long-ass amount of time to do. The story just sucked in the end. This was before I decided to make it a lot less fantastical in tone, and was also before Newgrounds updated the Art Portal to support galleries and multi-page comics, so this comic's pages had to be delivered via arbitrary clusters.
I eventually just stopped, after I realized I had no idea how to do the next page. It was over.
It wouldn't be until File 1 where I'd finally take another shot at Cooper Bullet. This time, armed with foresight, I did actually manage to get it off the ground. And I'm glad. At the time of writing, File 4 is 50% complete! Isn't that amazing?
However, this comic is still an important part of Cooper Bullet history, as I'm still taking and learning a lot from its art and its innovations (debatable) and mistakes (indisputable). So it deserves its own little page here.
