I really wanted to call this comic “Betrayer’s Blood” rather than “Hunter Black.” I have a pretty bad track record with titles, though, so we went with the more benign title.
Skysteel is literally metallic ore that came to the known world by way of a meteor strike. It has some…interesting properties.
These last few pages, Will did something I wasn’t expecting, and now I find that I have something new to work with. We had initially decided not to include non-human races in our setting. Then Will designed these guys that Iosephus is talking to. They look way too cool to change for some arbitrarily decided upon rule. So now I have to find a way to use them somewhere down the line. This is what rules about collaboration.
The Divine Quintet, five items that were created by the gods, to be used by man. The Revenger is one […]
Despite the way it may seem, Iosephus DOES NOT see Sordon’s ghost in Panel One. He’s a bit of a […]
Not to seem like I’m patting myself on the back, but I love the pregnant pause in Panel One, and […]
After watching Hunter slowly deteriorate over the last 25+ pages, it’s crazy to see him hale and hearty again. He […]
Is it weird that part of the reason that I get a big kick out of this page is the […]
Maliya Pel is one stone-cold woman. She has not yet bothered to wipe the blood from her cheek and indeed, […]
This page is another one of those things that just happen in the course of scripting. I never planned for […]
Man, this is a bit more tense on the page than it was when I wrote it. Things aren’t quite […]
More about The Divine Quintet, including a look at what the other four pieces of the DQ are. I don’t […]
In the interest of full disclosure: Will’s dad did not approve of our Karate Kid-esque choice of having Hunter Black […]
“They hired a Stray.” We’ve previously established the existence of the Thirteen, a group of Wizards who are powerful enough […]
I might have explained this already, and if I have I apologize, but I wanted to take a moment to […]
The debate that these two are having harkens back to many a cliche about a master teaching a student to […]
Wow. “Whetstone” has reached the end of the line. This chapter has been about introducing arguably the comic’s second most […]
So Will and I were looking over the next batch of pages today, including this one, as I was making […]
Writing this scene kinda bit me in the backside a little. Until recently, I’ve been well ahead of Will in […]
It’s probably a little arrogant for me to be tickled by something I wrote, but Gennesine’s line, “You tell your […]
Whence came the name “Finian Kos?” It has no gaming antecedents for me, but I really like it. For the […]