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wildcard on April 8, 2017
Enter Sir Burkhard our ideologically questionable saviour…
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I should clarify a slight design mishap here; no it's not a scientology cross, I am neither condemning, condoning or trying to offend that particular faith. The design for this fellow was kind of riffing off Teutonic knights and in my ignorance I modified their typical crucifix emblem to suggest a differing fictional faith. It was many pages in that a friend pointed out the resemblance to much facepalming on my part but the damage had been done and the prospect of editing every instance of Burkhard with a new emblem didn't sit well with me.
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Suffice to say, with this being a fantasy comic resemblances to real life people, cultures and beliefs really shouldn't be an issue. Ironically the fact I ended up with this similarity blindly illustrates how different people and cultures have and will often reach the same ends via different means. In some respects it even sits nicely within the intentional ambiguities I want this comic to have with the pentagram in the title being a good example of a symbol with many different interpretations amongst many beliefs and cultures.
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TL:DR version: always do your research properly first ;)
metsuke at 7:40AM, Oct. 20, 2018
Even the squirrels are evil in Schneehelm
wildcard at 2:44PM, Jan. 22, 2017
@DarioCOMICS: Treat this as a documentary if you like!
DarioCOMICS at 3:25PM, Dec. 2, 2015
Schneeheim sounds like the Town next to mine...
wildcard at 5:26AM, April 29, 2015
@Stig: Very true, I just felt the need to clarify before someone assumed it was a deliberate statement on my part.
Stig Hemmer at 2:23AM, April 20, 2015
*sigh* There has been so many variants of the cross used by various churches that it will *very* hard to find a unique one.