Pyrophobia Page 14
DAJB on Jan. 26, 2015
This page illustrates the different relationships that Nickel and I have with our characters. In the original script that last panel showed Mackenzie crashing to the ground. (Well, you know how much I like to make my heroes suffer!) When he sent me the finished page, Nickel told me he'd changed it to allow Mackenzie to lower herself gently, because he didn't want to be responsible for breaking her bones!
What I like about Nickel's version is that we get to see Mackenzie using her flame-throwing power once more before the end of the story, and using it in a very different way to the way it was used previously. This is important, I think, given that her fire-wielding abilities are meant to be her defining super power.
All art, colours, lettering and bone-saving pyrotechnics are by E.C. Nickel!
DAJB at 11:51PM, Jan. 27, 2015
Thanks!
ghostrunner at 6:46PM, Jan. 27, 2015
cool!
DAJB at 9:50AM, Jan. 27, 2015
I have to admit I've never seen Avatar: TLA either, but what's the use of any super power if you can't use it to fly?!
JustNoPoint at 8:52AM, Jan. 27, 2015
Vickie must not watch Avatar the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra. That's a shame. They use firebending as propulsion in it a lot! That really is quick thinking and also shows she's getting a bit more positive with her abilities!
DAJB at 7:45AM, Jan. 27, 2015
Thanks. You can never have enough 6s! Well, unless you already have two. Three 6s are really bad news!
plymayer at 3:07AM, Jan. 27, 2015
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DAJB at 9:52AM, Jan. 26, 2015
Haha! He most definitely is ... on both counts!
Abt_Nihil at 9:45AM, Jan. 26, 2015
Such a sweetheart, that E.C.! (And smart too!)
DAJB at 8:21AM, Jan. 26, 2015
Damn. Now I just want to see a jet-propelled vulture!
El Cid at 8:16AM, Jan. 26, 2015
It could be that the concentrated warm air is creating an updraft. That's how vultures get airborne; they ride upwelling convection currents into the sky.
DAJB at 7:55AM, Jan. 26, 2015
True. Even now they occupy a strange middle-ground somewhere between SciFi and fantasy, and characters' origins are often updated to take account of recent developments in actual (i.e. real-world) science.
usedbooks at 7:43AM, Jan. 26, 2015
Original superhero stories, before superhero was a genre, were science fiction. So, presumably they made some attempt to have scientific basis (at least for the time). I can see fire jets as rocket engines easily. I just didn't expect it. :)
DAJB at 7:34AM, Jan. 26, 2015
I'm not sure about fire and mass (although presumably the thing being burned has/had mass!). Physics were never my strong point. Fortunately, though, this scene isn't governed by physics so much as the most important of the comic book sciences: the science of looking cool!
usedbooks at 6:52AM, Jan. 26, 2015
Does fire even have mass? I guess it must, since rockets work. I just never considered that use for a flame-thrower before. XD Neat that Nickel thought of it. It adds to her character too, makes her more clever and quick-thinking. I have a couple advisers/collaborators for my story. Some parts would be MUCH different without them. (I had one character that was going to get killed off some time ago. My sis was so mad about my plans, I changed things, and he's been a useful story device several times since then.)