Comments on: Bandit Axemas Anno 5

By: Sporky

Sporky — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:37:45 +0000

I think those two approaches complement each other pretty well, but I can definitely see how they could push the two of you in different directions.

By: John Waltrip

John Waltrip — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 22:28:51 +0000

Thank you! It did! But I must confess that most of those widgets are based on a photo of a real scrap pile I found with Google Images. ;-D Some things just can’t be faked.

By: BrainWizard

BrainWizard — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 22:13:38 +0000

Aye, it must have. But since you can easily tell what something is or might be it looks to have been worth it.

By: TxGator

TxGator — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:57:02 +0000

John, I think that last panel was really well done. I’m betting it took some time to draw all those widgets.

By: T

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:40:48 +0000

Good thinking, but no… Phil just seemed to want to elevate Bandit a bit more than I did. I certainly liked her, but I liked her because I saw her as flawed, sometimes a victim of her compulsions, sometimes defensive, sometimes a little too “cutesy.” Phil was more inclined to emphasize her external issues: the prejudice she got from other gnomes and from non-gnomes, the idea that she could be 99.9% perfect and it still would be somehow not good enough. Neither of us completely disagreed with the other’s approach, and sometimes we’d write for each other’s sensibility (I wrote most of this tale of Bandit becoming a pariah; Phil wrote her arguably least likable moment in Chapter 36), but there was definitely push and pull between our takes through most of her history.