1-20 – Cursed
Sunday, March 25th, 2007Craig: The Maintainer has his hand squarely on his wife’s butt. 🙂
J.D.: As it should be.
Craig: It makes me giggle that the landlord starts talking about a break-in and the Maintainer shouts “LEON!” He’s as obsessed as Leon is.
J.D.: I love panel 3, where the Maintainer just isn’t saying anything. And yet you can feel the waves of wrath coming off him.
Craig: Leon just pushes all the Maintainer’s buttons. As we’ll see. 🙂
Craig: I love drawing battle scenes in the dungeon. I’m looking forward to a little later on in the story, where we’ll be spending a lot of time there. Really, I had no idea how to draw an “icky thing.” In my mind they look kind of like the Isz from The Maxx — kind of shapeless, but with feet. So I decided to just show the mushy corpse left after Cronk had pummeled it into submission.
J.D.: I don’t understand why Leon wants the Phial so badly when he’s wearing the Star of Elendil (or whatever it’s called in Mythband) around his neck.
Craig: Many people prefer the Phial to the Star. In Leon’s case, I think he’s just greedy.
March 26th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Or he could just want to pawn it off for spare change and go raid the black market.
March 26th, 2007 at 11:41 am
I’ll have to mention it here: Grey icky things don’t drop anything in *bands. =) (At least I understood that Cronk got the Phial from it)
Panel 3 is awesome, Maintainer looks big and angry 😀
March 26th, 2007 at 11:43 am
I think it’s interesting that the Maintainer and his wife are kind-of aggressively defensive in the first panel. A little overly touchy with the landlord, no? Granted, the landlord unwittingly walked into an already touchy situation.
As the Maintainer stalks off I’m reminded of Bartok the fruit bat’s line from Anastatia: “This can only end in tears!” 🙂
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:23 pm
[…] Craig: So anyway, I was trying out lots of different ideas for the Phial when J.D. reminded me that we’d already drawn it back on page 1-20, when Cronk discovered it after killing a Grey icky thing. […]