Chapter 4: Bad Karma | 107
xmung on May 11, 2011
This page touches on a number of incidents which have already happened throughout the previous chapters… and also to some that haven't because, as you might have realised, Karmaya and her corpulent companion are Maya and Chang from the future - dun dun dun! Effectively this story now becomes by order of magnitude about 10 times more complex. Some may say “convoluted”… but see if you can still follow along and judge for yourself.
The sequences relating to Karmaya alerting Epoch, Epoch saving the plane and Karmaya revealing her ‘false prediction’ to Chang are found throughout Chapter 2.
I quite like the look on Karmaya's face in panel 2… kind of conveys her mood quite nicely. I also like the way the Hierophant is drawn in panel 4, something about his helmet still feels ‘nicely done’ if I do say so myself. At this stage I was just starting to get a feel for colouring metals, I feel I failed with Lord Psiot VIII's golden helmet but nailed The Hierophant's. In case you're wondering WTF a ‘hierophant’ is, check this article out. His powers will be revealed at some point. I haven't really gone into why some characters cover their eyes completely… I might go into it in some future story.
Tomorrow… revealed…!
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xmung at 2:55PM, May 12, 2011
@jamoecw: I should have also mentioned that this story is set in 2009 so for Karmaya 2011 is still a couple of years away, so she and Chang were still recruited in the 'future'.
alschroeder at 1:43PM, May 12, 2011
VERY tricky.
Artificer Urza at 10:50AM, May 12, 2011
Altering 'pre-defined' events can be tricky and can lead to unexpected results if you don't have all the information.
jamoecw at 9:45AM, May 12, 2011
so they were recruited during the now instead of present. forgot about the timing of such things, the only question is if he has the vrax japh right now in our timeline. hopefully were are in a suitably different one than that one, otherwise we are going to be in big trouble. maybe that is why the mayan calendar ends in 2012. The outcome corresponds less to expectations in war than in any other case whatsoever.
Legend Comics at 8:45AM, May 12, 2011
I've been intrigued by the Hierophant ever since I first saw his cool helmet.
seventy2 at 5:53AM, May 12, 2011
ooooooh tricky time line.