Every year, Europe’s largest comics festival, the Angouleme International Comics Festival, happens in Angouleme, France. I’ve been invited a couple times by the French publisher of RUNNERS: Bad Goods, Kymera, but unfortunately, I’ve never been able to make it. Maybe some day…

Anyway, I liked the sound of the name Angouleme, so that was the jumping-off point for the name of the port on this page, Arqq-Olem.

Unlike Bad Goods, which started out with the crew hanging around on the ship, I thought it’d be fun to introduce them in this arc right in the middle of a firefight. And I thought it’d be funny to have the first line of dialogue be Roka yelling some sort of insult, and “Preegan crung heap” sounded just about as good an anything.