The Temple of a Thousand Tears

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Chapter 5: Whispers of Sorrow 12

trevoramueller

on March 4, 2008

Oh snap, that looks like a pretty serious blow. Although the impact of the, well…impact…does not seem so dramatic or intense, let me remind you that this dude totally just tossed Shiri into the woods. He has some power in his strike, and Julian is kind of an old guy, and not exactly battle-hardened.

To be honest, I wrote his character originally for two reasons:

1) To create Shiri
2) To die

Have you ever written a character who's sole purpose was to die? I know writers do it all the time. I remember back in the day before Marvel was doing the Age of Apocalypse series, when Joe Mad had just joined their ranks. He was tasked with creating a character, Blink, who's whole purpose was to be killed in that issue. When AoA started up and Joe was given a little more creative freedom, he brought her back - and the fan response was so positive that Marvel brought her back to life in The Exiles.

Temple will not see people spontaneously coming back from the dead, but just because they're dead doesn't mean that they're out of the story…..

Also, when I was earlier referencing my weaker pages within this chapter, I was specifically referring to this one. Sorry.