Looking this over with fresh eyes, I’m wondering if Phil and I weren’t unconsciously building toward a theme here: not so much “innocence lost” as how fragile innocence is. We’ve seen Penk pull back from enjoying his enemies’ suffering and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The three-chapter Peacemakers-vs.-Champions sequence represented an interesting balancing act of sympathies and effectiveness. Making two sides impressive while keeping them evenly matched is not as easy as it sounds. If we hadn’t built up Penk and Magda as badasses before […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What happens to Penk in panels 2-4 might be the most important moment in his development, and certainly is the easiest to overlook. He laughs over his defeated enemy, as a troll champion is supposed to do, as Harky certainly would (“BAHAHAHAHA! When will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I guess it’s time to make this official. Phil identified as male throughout the production of Guilded Age, but “she/they” are the nominative pronouns that she now uses. I’ll be going with “she” going forward, even when describing interactions with her in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Phil’s dialogue here, I… gather he was having some second thoughts about Penk’s design. I mean, I don’t think the helmet is that bad, on its own! It is true that something about it looks vaguely wrong, but that’s reflective of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
