So this is a beat that doesn’t quite work in webcomic weekly posting format. The last panel of the previous page was the Zahari claiming that Sky is a “malevolent force too dangerous to live.” Immediately flipping the page to the reaction shots works as a fun little comedic beat, but with the week between pages, it’s a little weird. So I guess you’ll all just have the buy the printed book when it comes out so you can truly experience the story and all its beats properly. Ha.
In the top panels, the background is actually a cut-and-paste from a previous page. I’m planning to do more with that sort of thing in Chapter 6 for reasons I’ll get into later. I’m curious to see if reusing some occasional backgrounds will help cut some corners and speed up the process. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but I think in almost all cases it won’t even be noticeable. And for some particularly complex backgrounds, it might come in handy. We shall see.
Sky is just sooo malevolent. All the time. Yeah.
No fork in this universe will be safe! 🙂
If we don’t mind the reuse of backgrounds in animation, why should we mind in comics? 😉
It’s not going to matter for that first read as the reader will focus on the story.
And in this case it makes sense for the top three panels to have the same background.
Compliments for the artists that manage to draw the same background for multiple panels by hand, but I’ve seen the rush jobs and that can definitely take a reader out of the story.
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Okay, so it doesn’t seem specific to Sky in particular as our interloper here is talking about “seeing her line eradicated”. It’s Sky and all of her clone sisters.
And since the Zahari have, allegedly, “long pledged” to hunt them down, that means that Sky’s line is not a recent thing.
So here’s my theory so far: “the destroyer” was some ancient entity with god-like powers (any sufficiently troublesome power is undistinguishable from god-like) that meddled around freely and acquired enemies by doing so. At some point she (I’ll assume she was a she, since Sky looks like her) disappeared, maybe some of her enemies managed to seal her in a trap or something, and was forgotten by most. But not all. Then some people found her resting place and decided to create brainwashed clones of her for some nefarious plot. With her public appearance and demonstration of power, Sky was confused with the original returned, so they sent this guy to track her down.