Inspirational baggage:

So! 2023. Did my annual tarot spread this morning and the cards that came up seems to promise quite an eventful year. But I’m not gonna go into detail about that since it is a personal prediction of mine. Instead I’m gonna talk about how something that may come up as an inspiration initally may turn out to become baggage down the line. Now, I admit that I can be very impressionable when it comes to absorbing ideas and concepts from fiction and reality both all around, which I naturally have been trying to work into the worldbuilding of my comics.

Over time though, I’ve discovered that though I may proparly implement some fraction from those ideas and concepts they may, in their bulk format, become more disrupting then fulfilling. One example of this is the concept of magic. I love magic. I love fantasy. My comic Imsies the Imthology very much has an estethic reminiscent of that of a high-fantasy sort of setting.

BUT! Since these stories in actuality are taking place in a futuristic sci-fi setting, albeit a very retro-esque one, with mutants and mutation being the central theme of the entire setting, this concept – even in a rebranded sense – doesn’t quite hold water, not as a universal, omnipresent – a’ la The Force in Star Wars – kind of format at least. So, I figured I scrap the high-fantasy format of magic and instead went for a more superhero comic kind of approach.

How about instead the Imsies powers work the same way the X-Men’s mutant powers work, though applied to race rather then individual. The Illumid race in Imsies the Imthology have their pulse power, for which there may be different power levels of that goes hand in hand with an individual Illumid’s hierarchical rank in Illumid society, be at a peasant, or a warrior, or a priest. Same thing may go for other Imsie races and their race’s respective Im-power.

It feels like a more simpler, mor managable approach that helps define the setting a lot more and effectively concludes needless explanation on the concept, allowing focus to be laid upon story elements instead. It is like, if my memory serve me right, what Albert Einstein once said:

”If you can’t explain it simply. Then you don’t understand it enough yourself.”

Or something along those lines. And that’s pretty much all the thoughts I had to share with you this Sunday. Sorry if it is a bit rough. I’m still trying to recover from the sickness I had last month and still feel a bit sleepy, though it is certainly getting better by the week.

Share your thoughts in the comments if you like. Til’ next time.

NaaN (Now, always and Never)