Melody and Macabre

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A Dark Valley, Page 5

Xiam

on July 31, 2008

Death seeks an audience with Death? Wild!

I felt too lazy to draw the bricks again. Interestingly enough, drawing the lines behind to make characters stand out better took more time than drawing the damn bricks would have.

This is the first time you get a really good look at our new character's face. Sadly, you can't see his eyes. Not that you'd want to.

I designed him specifically to look a bit like Death. I'm sure you've noticed that by now. If I'd made his sweatshirt a bit darker, it might have been more obvious.

His knife, by the way, is a bit of a pain for me. I couldn't come up with an actual weapon he could use to cut through ribs - I actually wanted him to use a box cutter, but aside from worrying someone might actually try it, I realized it wouldn't be practical for cutting out someone's heart, so I decided to give him a non-specific serrated blade (seen in Page 3 to not be serrated, I added them in hopes that it would be more likely for bone cutting - if not, I'll change it again).

I'm happy to show a lot more blood (in proportion to the body) in this one - especially the splatter from before - but I worry that I should update the rating to M because of the violence.

Let me know what you guys think about that.