G-Day Illo
What the hell, let’s talk about this interstitial image too.
“G-Day” was when we announced a passel of new features that meant more work for me and Phil, including the Guilded Age forum (which didn’t really last because people very much preferred commenting on the main page), Guilded Age Plus (a for-pay set of annotations like these, which would last about three years– but we’re going all the way with these annotations, baby), and a leaner, streamlined interface (which we retained to the present).
We got a few mild complaints that this wasn’t a “story image,” but I think it served a little purpose: it announced who the main characters in the series were at this point… and HR wasn’t one of them. Important as he’d clearly be to the finale, we wanted the emphasis on Our Heroes and to assure readers who’d waited patiently through Chapter 9 that they would return– especially Bandit, whose mysterious absence would continue for two more chapters.
Had we been thinking a little further ahead, we might’ve put E-Merl, Rachel, and Scipio’s silhouettes into the background, but we weren’t even working on their designs yet. Phil was pitching some pretty solid ideas for them by now, though.
In retrospect, this gives the impression of “This is where it really begins!” :D
I really hope you ho all the way with these annotations they are so interesting.
Byron is perfectly posed to strike his axes into Bandit. Was that intentional?
Wasn’t something we requested! You’d have to ask John, though.
He’s looking PAST Bandit
That’s a mistake on so many levels!
I always wondered why webcomics didn’t simply alias the comment section of each installment to the appropriate forum thread. Erfworld has a form of this now… for what it’s worth.
I don’t remember the old site design, but the new one served it’s purpose well… even if you did get the page and chapter controls backwards.