This reunion had to be sweet and cute for the rest of the story to have emotional weight. Rachel wasn’t lying to herself. Her sisters really were as close and loving with her and each other as sisters ought to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My alternate suggestions for Frigg’s nickname for Tamara: Condomface, Feedbagface, Blindie, Ass-eyes, Slenderwoman. Phil went his own way there. Take a close look at the townspeople in panels 1 and 3; not only their appearance but how they react to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here’s our second dose of exposition. I did my best to scatter a lot of seeds to lend it interest: the continued reverence for Frigg, the contrast between Hestia’s ideology and Blair’s pragmatism, and the implications of that “5-4-3” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark Waid was one of my principal influences in writing serial adventure comics, and one of his greatest gifts is his mastery of exposition. You’ve got to recap the important facts but sound more exciting than encyclopedic, remaining fully aware […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Phil came up with this gag fairly late in the process of developing this chapter, but it meshes well with the rest of it. We’ve had enough time by now to forget Frigg’s offer to E-Merl, and looking back in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
