April 8, 2022

Commentary for April 8, 2022:

Fun fact, Lady Ullswater was one of the first human characters I made new sprites of for this season. We’ll be seeing a lot more of her, too. She was never in Eon’s Comic; there wasn’t ever anyone like her back then. She made her debut in Eon’s World Vol. 2, Chapter 8, but as soon as I’d done that one scene involving her, I knew she had to be a recurring character. I’ve said this before, but I never really touched on how Silky’s country responded to Eon back in Eon’s Comic; no question of whether or not he’d been accepted by the people and no examples of any pushback from anybody. I wanted things to be different in the retelling and Ullswater is basically the face of that. However, I do mean to explore her character in greater detail as we go on so she isn’t just that one noblewoman who really dislikes Eon.

Anyway, back to Darryl Fennec for a moment. His experience with higher education is a bit of truth in fiction. They say write what you know, and I usually ignore that advice and write high fantasy, science fiction, and political drama. But on this occasion, Darryl’s experience is basically my own. Eleven years ago, I’d decided I wanted to be a university professor and teach philosophy, but getting PhD funding was not going to be possible with the undergraduate grades I had. It’s not that I did badly as an undergraduate; I actually did very well, just not well enough to get what I wanted without extra steps, which I was well on the way to by the spring of 2011, when I’d applied and been accepted onto a masters course, but circumstances meant I had to abandon that path in the end. But if any readers from back then were wondering why Eon’s Comic stopped suddenly in March, 2011, now you know. Had I not tried to pursue that path, who knows how much longer I’d have kept chugging away on that old comic? It’s even possible some of the stories eventually told in Vol. 2 would have been done in Eon’s Comic in the old sprite style instead. That would have been interesting...

Anyways, if you’ve read Vol. 2, you know where Darryl ends up. Like me, it’s not where he planned or expected to be.

Also, just as a final note, if CJ looks a little grumpy in those first two panels, he’s meant to. He doesn’t like the military or uniformed service in general.

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