Chapter 1: Wannabe | 43
xmung on Aug. 27, 2010
Kaycee and Nadine head back to their dorm and get to meet a whole heap of their fellow cadets: Gregor, Louis, Bill (panel 3) and Chang, Joe, Jenna and Montana-Rose (panel 4). We first glimpsed these faces back in the faculty meeting (p21) and some others (notably Louis, Gregor and Bill) in the fight a pages ago… Joe is sporting a shiner and can be seen down and out on page 36. Here's a little factoid… Jenna, the blue skinned demon girl, was a last minute addition to the class. I had originally intended someone else but thought she seemed really lame as a potential superhero, plus I liked the design of the blue skinned demon in the plane with Kaycee (p16) so had added one of the same to the faculty (p19) and then decided to include a female variant in the cadetship by the time I got to the aforementioned page p21. None of that is relevant to the story at hand, just trivia!
alschroeder at 4:38AM, Aug. 28, 2010
I like it--rather than an X-Men feel, it has a Legion feel to it...which ALSO had an Academy.
xmung at 12:43AM, Aug. 28, 2010
@Nepath: both... originally it was going to be a lot more intimate, about 5 students and one teacher - but then it felt too much like 1960s style Xavier's Institute for the Gifted. So I added two more groups of 5 students (taking it to 15) and it just kind of snowballed from there. By the time I had started the project proper there were about 30-40 identified and designed characters. Some have since been made up on the spot and then folded into the story as I went along... it's like a huge all-consuming mudslide!
Nepath at 12:24AM, Aug. 28, 2010
this is a massive project - did you have all these character planned out before you started or just added to your cast as you went along?
xmung at 12:08AM, Aug. 28, 2010
@Lemniskate: yes indeedy... currently working on the mother of all cast pages... more details in a week or two!
DAJB at 12:01AM, Aug. 28, 2010
Heh.
Lemniskate at 11:34PM, Aug. 27, 2010
I hope you have same handy charts to keep track of all those characters.