Axemas Extras Anno
Forget continuity: these three installments are examples of JOHNtinuity. Though they were developed in two different years, the impulse behind their creation was the same: Flo and I were tired at the end of the year and wanted one or two extra updates to cover the holidays, but we didn’t want to burden John with too many expectations, so we just asked him to do “whatever.” As seen here, John’s “whatever” is truly something to behold.
The “Tectonicalia” penciled in the third image here became essentially a rough draft of Traal.
For me, the main image has a little “the lion shall lay down with the lamb” energy. Not because the Champions and ex-Peacemakers are together: those two groups have been at peace for a while. But seeing Bandit sharing the ice with Syr’Nj and Byron…that’s what makes this image impossible, strictly speaking, if it takes place anytime after Best’s Mercury look began. It’s impossible…but it’s still nice to think about.
Ditto Frigg singing along with Best on any Axemas carols that aren’t the special dirty-lyrics versions.
Given all the shouting Frigg does, I’d expect her voice to be a lot more suited for things that require an axe-guitar. I also wouldn#t expect her to be particularly good at hitting notes, but that wouldn’t matter if she were singing some of the Motörhead classics :)
Also: sweet hats on Bandit! My ears kinda hurt when i see people wearing winter hats but not covering their ears but it’s nice to see that at least her ponytails are warm.
Also also: I can’t quite tell whether Auraugu is off to bring presents to people or if he’s just making off with the presents. But either way works for me.
It’s been so long since we’ve seen Penk out of his armor. It looks kinda weird(not in a bad way just a “huh” way
I enjoyed the final touch of the eternity symbol under Byron and Syr’Nj.
They’re about to do a couple spin, except their free legs might not be in the best positions. Also: low execution score for the asymmetric posture. At least Syr’Nj is properly stretching her free leg (although it should be next to the other foot by now), but you simply can’t get Byron to pay attention to even this basic sort of detail, and that might just cost them a serious amount of points for their technical score, assuming they manage to execute that spin properly at all, since they’re coming into it in a somewhat weird angle and on am almost undefined edge, so it’ll be hard to not just fly apart half a second from now.
SCNR. Ice dancing season only starts again in October for me :)
Nah, Bandit’s wearing special gnome skates that cut the ice so Syr’nj and Byron will fall through