This entire flashback was not a scene I originally planned for Bocce’s story. But again, once I settled on a mini-arc for this volume revolving around Bocce struggling with his berserker mode, I wanted to keep sprinkling in bits to keep that arc alive until its resolution. And in Volume 2, I had mentioned Bocce and Pahjan giving food to fellow refugees, so this seemed like a good tie back to that scene.
As I mentioned a few pages back, I initially wasn’t totally happy with how the sepia look turned out on this sequence. It’s since grown on me a bit. But for fun, I thought I’d share the pages as they were originally colored by Cyril with a bluish nighttime hue that worked really well. You can see the pages on my Patreon, and it will be a Public post available to everyone, not just backers. Check it out HERE.
I wonder if we’ll get a comedic flashback with Ril or Cember just to play the reader’s expectations. 🙂
Who knows?! I don’t want to lean too heavily on flashbacks, but I did do an early one with Roka. I guess if the story dictates it, I may psirnkle more in, but I see a lot of Ril’s and Cember’s stories being told from the present on. Bocce is definitely one of those characters where he’s much more heavy on backstory, so the flashbacks are more necessary for him.
fab stuff!!!!!
Thanks!!