Comic 540 - A Scaly Roadblock
6th Jul 2020, 12:00 AM
in Dragon Slayers
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Author Notes:
In the large panel, we have:
Richard Munch from Ignotus
Noah Arevodian from Last Spork in the Universe
And in the lower panel we have:
Rosa Mundi (as a human) from KICKS
The author of KICKS has been helping me with my comic's dialogue (editing grammar mistakes and odd phrasings) for about three months now, so it's about time for me to publicly express my appreciation for her contributions!
Thank you very much, Taily! :-)
User comments:
"I believe it’s getting better in the most recent pages, but it still was happening occasionally and I wanted to make you aware of it!"
Emphasis added by me - because I think the credit for this part belongs to you!! :-)
someone better call parking enforcement"what now?"
"now... we YouTube!"
What she does not have however is any qualms to shoot a lot of disaster photos, as we'll soon see...
Then the dragon came down to the deafening sound
Burning eyes like the winter sun
And such a terror unwound to this hellbound requiem
The beast a ravenous hound on the hunting ground
Breathes fire to the funeral drums
Now there's a dragon in town and he won't back down again
Now there's a dragon in town and he won't back down, I said
No he will never back down till the whole damned town is dead
This chapter's story gestated in my head while approximately the last third of lirv's Flyover Country was running. (I mean, see my usage of Starry Wisdom!), Thus, due to what I associated one of his main characters with, the legend of Saint George was indeed one of the things I was thinking about at the time.
(That being said though, there is the lore of another dragon slayer legend that will be of importance later...)
But of course one has to take care that the plot does not become impenetrable for readers who happen to not be familiar with "Other Comic XYZ". Apologies if I am not always fully succeeding in this regard...
The Church of Starry Wisdom is originally from the H.P. Lovecraft story The Haunter of the Dark.
It's introduction into our (as of yet still unnamed) shared universe however was in Prof Etheric's Autumn Bay, where they were one of the villains of its first Season. (I highly recommend reading the whole webcomic of course, but a part with a grand showdown versus Starry Wisdom is starting here.)
Soon thereafter, lirvilas picked them up via one of his major villains joining the cult (recognize the logo in the last panel here? ;-) ), and eventually did another great showdown involving them vs. the heroes in the chapter starting here. (Yes, those links lead to two different comics. That's just how lirv rolls.)
Well, and now... it's my turn to play with them a bit! :-)