Author notes

Book One page 31

bravo1102

on May 24, 2017

Lots and lots of dialogue and exposition on this page. There will be pages reviewing the characters and their relationships as well as the inevitable fantasy map but for now be a fly on the wall. There are problems here. The battle didn't solve everything. And is Duke Darran really as severe as he looks?

Yes. He is.

This page was extensively re-written as the original dialogue had no spark to it and very little characterization. There's still no characterization but it moves a little better now. But there is a lot of talk. It's a meeting and someone is fashionably late so everyone is talking about him. And the boss arrives and he still hasn't shown up? Hoo-boy.

The original images were washed out by flash so they were tweaked, and there were no facial expressions as I didn't know how to really do them yet. Hopefully this gives an idea of how the politics and relationships of the various nobles here works. As I said there will be pages detailing the world-building garbage later. Just let this sink in for now. And did you notice that true to her role as a royal scribe Glorianna is taking minutes?

The papers on the table actually have writing on them as well as the two maps. The ink stand was scratch built from plastic but the feathered pen came in one of the figures. The whole comic is strewn with recognizable actors (like Russell Crowe, John Wayne and Alec Guinness here) but they are all playing parts that seemed appropriate to their screen persona. (Though later on, Orlando Bloom is cast way against type but Terry Jones is close to how he was in Monty Python and Holy Grail)

Sadly some actors were cut from the final script (Like there was Richard Burton as King Arthur and Ian McKellan as Merlin but that subplot got cut… but a subplot with Orlando Bloom and Rutger Hauer was substituted) Sadly, there aren't a whole lot of convincing female celebrity heads that I can afford but they all have their own personality.