This is kind of an obvious observation, but I do appreciate the cruel irony of Braggadocio’s trauma ruining the one thing he loved above all others. It makes his anguish hit home a lot harder, and keeps his story from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Panels 1 and 3 are important, I think. Neither Bandit nor Syr’Nj want their friendship to end today on top of everything else. For that reason, they both hesitate. (Well, in Bandit’s case, it’s also the air of barely contained […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It took us three full drafts to get this concluding confrontation to its final point… and even then, John’s interpretation adjusted it a little more. I don’t remember for sure what drafts were whose, although I feel like most of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pyre has, it seems, retained his fire-casting abilities but lost the self-preservation instinct that would prevent him from burning his own body. If he wasn’t dead when he was turned berserk, he is now. Tobias Gnipgnop’s survival in panel 2 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Flo took the lead with Rabbit’s dialogue, and most of it sounds right to my ear here. Like I said in Chapter 23, the singsong poetic logic behind his speech is a hard thing to capture, especially in a scene that requires […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
