The Teenage Girls Guide to Her Ever Changing Body

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In Media Res (Book 1), Canto II, "Air's Siren Song," Page 2

Bubbles

on Oct. 17, 2006

…and the four have entered the scene. Here are our other two protagonists, showing the kind of mutual respect and cooperation the Fantastic Four can only hope to aspire to.

Because it's probably what you're absolutely not wondering about, I'll tell you how I figured out that huge cluster of Sailor Moon-style biographical data that's hovering in some of these panels (there, I said it. We all know I have more than a passing familiarity with the genre, although, honestly, the whole idea for this comic came from extra-large Slurpees and screaming at fansubs of Pretty Cure for the writers to set Honoka free to admit her true love).

Ages are simple. The artist, who's the big concept guy, told me that we're doing stuff in this age range. Van's a little older, for reasons having to do with the backstory that we're only going to hint about in this Canto, but basically, the nature of the plot determines that.

As for the rest, I used Wikipedia and Google to look up associations with moon phases, blood types, and all sorts of other stuff, and wasted hours of my time cutting and pasting off the internet to match up everything just right. I say "wasted" because, honestly, even though I have a list of initial concept characteristics somewhere on one of my drives, by this time, the characters are beyond that in terms of what I've written them to be. That's writing.