Annotated Chapter 50 Cover
So, when I saw this, I thought “surely Flo or I must’ve intended that to be part of a passage from Gravedust’s book,” but I looked up the email and all it told John was… “Dominating the composition here is the reversed letter ‘G’ in movable type, though the edges of other letters may be visible. As we established with Mr. Bedard, Arkerra has relatively advanced printing technology; the printing press will play a role in this chapter’s final page.” (That turned out to be not quite true, but close enough.)
EDIT: In case you wondered what it said, I had forgotten this, but John improvised some context:
“Here ye, here ye!
Citizens of Gastonia,
the war is over.”
Boy, that alt text has kinda checked out already, hasn’t it? :-)
Incidentally, here’s the final rankings of our top 50 characters by appearances.
1. Syr’Nj
2. Frigg (very close to a tie with Syr’Nj: less than 1% difference)
3. Byron
4. Gravedust
5. Bandit
6. E-Merl
7. Best (note: WAV is counted separately; if WAV’s appearances were added to Best’s, it’d pull him past E-Merl)
8. Rachel
9. Scipio
10. Penk
11. Fr’Nj
12. Sundar
13. Magda
14. HR
15. Ardaic
16. Shanna
17. Auraugu
18. Carol
19. Harky
20. WAV
21. Xan
22. Goblaurence
23. Iwatani Sr.
24. Taro Iwatani
25. Hammerhead
26. Braggadocio
27. Caneghem
28. Bedard (tie with Caneghem)
29. Miyamoto
30. Daniel
31. Chrissie
32. Lia
33. Clair
34. Rana
35. Kur’Ik (tie with Rana)
36. Jarvis
37. Brother Tom
38. Gondolessa (tie with Brother Tom)
39. Hollister
40. JJ Berten
41. Rendar
42. Rabbit
43. Pardo
44. Tamara (tie with Pardo)
45. Reynolds
46. Isidro (tie with Reynolds)
47. Ulak
48. Faereksch’Nj
49. Iver
50. Tobias Gnipgnop
That’s a good roundup of all the major players, aside from Weo. I wonder where he ranks?
51!
Oh nice! I was wondering who else would rank higher than him. No one apparently!
Middle line is probably “of Gastonia,” but I can’t guess at the others.
Got ya covered!
– http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-50-cover-page-1/#comment-1318728
Noted! I’ll fix this in a bit.
End of an era. It’s weird to think back to when I started reading Guilded Age, back during Chapter 1 or 2 of the original run. It’s been fun.
Yes, it surely is. We stand at the edge of the Beginning of the End. I also think back to when I started drawing Guilded Age, taking over the art duties from Erica Henderson who established the look of the comic and the main characters. Looking at the art style she employed, I thought to myself “I can do that.” And when I started doing it, I thought “How am I going to do this?!” Well, with a lot of practice, and a lot of patience, and understanding by the readers, and T & Phil/Flo, I was able to produce, I think, some of the best work I’ve done in comics. I thank you all for reading, for continuing to read after the change, and continue to read even now.
I agree it’s some of your best work, John. I honestly think it could go toe to toe with some of the more mainstream stuff out there like Sex Criminals. It is a big regret not being able to hold a physical version of the whole thing.