Issue 1: Page 8

repoman on May 24, 2009

(Edit: Formerly page 18. Moved 6/25/09)

Oh the irony!

Thanks for looking this week. This whole flashback sequence at the Eternity Spire was sort of inspired partly by the Kurosawa movie Rashomon. In case you're not familiar with it, the story basically deals with a murder trial and shows how four different witnesses all have four completely different, yet honest accounts of the same event. I didn't intend it at first, but with Kyri as the first person narrator, this scene sort of developed into a Rashomon-type thing as I got into it. I'm sure Jon would have a completely different account of what happened. And that's something I may explore later… maybe. . . since I work from a very loose outline and sometimes the characters surprise me as go to draw the next page.

Thanks again to all of you who stopped by and left comments last week. Sometimes I feel like I'm “paid” in comments. That is, I feel rewarded to see that others are reading my stuff.

@chaves - Thanks. What's SAI? Is that Abobe Illustrator?
@theends - Thanks for stoppin' by. I dig your art too. : )
@Jabali - Thanks for the compliment on the story. It means alot.
@TheMidge28 - I appreciate your support as always. I was down on the writing last week because the page took me two weeks to complete as I was rewriting the narration and changing panels over and over. There goes the buffer! LOL.
@mattchee - Thanks! And since we're talking art recipes, I achieved the fade effect by putting the figure on a separate layer and then used the “white” pen setting in Manga Studio to “dirty up” the lines and spaces.
@darkwaterfrey - Thanks so much. I appreciate your support.
@machinehead - LOL. You're getting warm.
@khard12 - Thanks. I personally cannot think of anything more nightmarish than working in the corporate world. I've personally been scarred (or is that scared) for life.
@The Gravekeeper - Thanks alot! You give me courage to maybe hit up some publishers later. But it's such a pipe dream with heavy odds against it. However if worse comes to worst, I am definitely going to publish this thing myself through Ka-blam or Indy Planet. My mom and my wife want copies. LOL.
@literacysuks1 - Thanks! No problem, man. Please come by to look at the pictures anytime!
@armandoB - Thanks again!
@amanda - Interesting questions. I'm not too sure yet what happened exactly between Kyri and her master (maybe I shouldn't admit that, LOL). I have some ideas and hopefully I'll get to tell that tale soon.
@Aghammer - Thanks again! I'm also not sure if Kyri is making the right decision either. Maybe she isn't? I guess the question is more important than the answer and it's something I wish to explore further in this comic.
@Doctor Shadow - Thanks for stoppin' by again good Doctor. I appreciate it.
@plymayer - Thanks!
@harryq - Thanks, too!

Anyhow, keep on keepin' on. See you next week.