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Oh gosh, yes, Vesa is such a fool sometimes. He’s a sheltered teenager just trying to deal with the fact that he is in way over his head, and has spent part of the past week in a hole in the ground getting all Stockholm-y.
…I feel kind of bad for how often the Demyan and Toivo get hurt. I suppose if you have magical healing powers, you may as well use them for dramatic effect.
Don’t worry! The ending will be cool, and I’m already working on short stories for the book release!
We were thinking about cutting the dream sequence, actually, because I didn’t know if it was too cheesy, but I liked the way it looked in my imagination.
I liked writing this chapter, and I’m glad you enjoyed it! Seriously, love scenes are hard! This is the first one I ever wrote, save the make-outs earlier in the book. (I’m thinking of jumping into the deep end with a cherry bomb short once the book is finished, though.)As for hobbies, I’m not super good at a lot of craft stuff. My sister does origami and knitting and sewing and she’s really good at it, but I never got into it–I’m mostly in the realm of visual arts. I like to draw comics and I’m working on a 2D animated short. What I really want to get into now that I know enough Zbrush is making 3D printed garage-kit sculptures of fictional-characters I love.
I play the piano and the flute, but I haven’t practiced either in gosh-knows how long.
Also, writing, I guess, but you guys kinda knew that already.With only a few more chapters to go, I want to start some more discussions in the forums. I hope you all are enjoying the story so far. I just wanted to ask you guys what you thought about it, and wanted some feedback. Do ya’ll have any headcannons you want to share? Requests for side stories? After I finish the book I’m probably going to do a couple of shorts, maybe both regular and 18+ and was wondering what you guys want to read about.
P.S. I got a new animation job! I’m a 3D animator on the HIVESWAP game (Homestuck.) Any Homestuck fans here?
I went to SPX last year and it was AWESOME~! We got randomly upgraded to the honeymoon suite for no extra money and a whole crew of us had a party in the room and drew comics late into the night.
Sparkler should think about getting a table for the next one.
This year I am unfortunately not going down to Bethesda, as I am still recuperating from PAX and my darling is flying to Singapore the next day. All you guys have a great time!Oh, you are totally welcome to snag that for a tabletop campaign! I love when books or movies have inspired our games–right now we are doing a Burning Wheel setting that our DM made called “The Ruin Explorers” and it’s D&D style elves and orcs fantasy world, but with a heavy helping of Indiana Jones and the British Imperial Era. Unfortunately, the strapping expedition guide Bogan who was the Indiana Jones-ish one in the group, bit it because a dumbass dwarf played by my boyfriend insisted on pissing off a dragon, so now I am a very serious professor elf.
My favorite recent campaign was the one where we were all low level guards in a far northern mining town, dealing with spooky stuff, and we all ended talking with these horrible cartoonish Russian accents. (I love tabletop games…)That’s funny that you think it’s got a cinematic quality, because my background is actually in Film & Television. When I write I tend to imagine scenes like I am watching them in a movie, but with additional sensory aspects. I’d like to try boarding some of these scenes sometime–it would be good practice, but for now I’d better concentrate on the next few chapters!
Yes, angels can only be killed by each other. I forget whether I said that explicitly or if it was just implied. The whole “Enemy Pairs” thing is how the angels work, with each representing the hope and fear in a conflict.
I’m glad you ship them! Hopefully the payoffs of those ships will be satisfying (I’ll do my best!)
On a side note, I really enjoyed your comic. It was wonderful! It’s really hard to portray music in a medium without sound, but you sell a musical performance in sequential art very skillfully.
I’m so happy you think so! This was kind of a last minute script on my part, but it’s Angi’s art that really sells it! I love the way she draws Toivo, and for a character that is introduced for such a brief time, I think she put a lot of charm into Agent O’Conner. It is a funny, recursion-like impulse to want to draw fanart of someone’s art of your own characters, but that’s just what I want to do when I get more free time!
You get to find out the sorrowful story of the previous meeting of Zophiel and Solas in the next chapter. (It was one of the harder passages for me to write.) Maybe this time around things will go better for them? Maybe…?)
After that chapter, we get to find out what is happening with the kids, back at the forest bunker. Now one of them is a kidnapping victim and one of them is ostensibly complicit in the whole deal, so that might introduce a snag in their budding romance. In case you couldn’t tell, I have a thing for people from opposing sides of a conflict having feelings for each other.I really liked this one. One of the things that struck me was that the pacing was very cinematic. There were lots of nice pauses and well-drawn expressions that passed between the characters, and the environments were rendered in such a way that they gave a very distinct impression of time and place. I always love when comics are atmospheric, and this one definitely has that quality going for it.
Oh my gosh, thank you so much, Tacto! Are you going to TCAF for comics stuff, BTW? (I’m assuming you’re the same Tacto who does indie comics with Bento.)
Edit: Also, I think that Demyan seems to be the breakout character from this novel. Everyone (myself included) is happy when Demyan is in a scene, I think.
MRS. SHINN: It’s a smutty book. Like most of the others you keep here, I dare say.
You’ll see who that prophecy refers to in chapter three. There’s a bit of Romeo/Juliet going on.
Dan Simmons author of Hyperion, right? I’ve haven’t read Carrion Comfort, but it sounds damn spooky, and seems to share common conceits with the angels in Kalevia. Hyperion is the only thing I’d read by Simmons, and it’s basically Canterbury Tales in space. (My partner says “The Terror” by him is also quite scary.) Maybe I’ll check out this one.
I’ve been put off of Dan Simmons by the fact that he’s kinda racist. It’s frustrating when there is an artist/author, like Lovecraft, who makes good work, but is douchey as a person. *sigh*Actually, the linguistic references and names in the country of Kalevia (Kuh-leh-vi-uh) take mostly after Finnish/Karelian. (Demyan’s the only explicitly Russian character.) Here’s a handy reference guide for Finnish pronunciation, if you’re interested.
Also, Toy-voh is a good approximation of his name. Here’s some of the others:
Kaija = Kai-yuh
Vesa = veh-suh
