Commentary
for May 3, 2022:
I’d like to take a
moment to note just how satisfied I am with the paper money sprite
there in panel 2. Sometimes it really is the little things. On
another artistic note, would it surprise you to learn that I first
created that Uranus asset (I say asset, ‘cause it’s not really a
sprite) way back in 2009? Thing is, I don’t think I could do a
better job of it now, so why re-invent the wheel? But yeah, that’s
Uranus Black Sabre’s ship is orbiting. No jokes, please; they’re
tired and very obvious and that’s not even how you pronounce it.
Anyway, this chapter is pretty faithful to the original in spirit,
if not in the precise details. In the original, as I’ve previously
mentioned, a couple of OC’s had travelled back in time with Sonic
from his trip into the future (which had originally been five
hundred years into the future, rather than just ten) and Katherine
Elm had arrived to remove them to prevent damage to the timeline. In
the 2018 remaster, I removed those OC’s changed it from a pair of
OC’s to Zero and Ciel from Mega Man Zero, which I had
mentioned a couple of pages ago.
You see, in the original Eon’s Comic, I included Zero and
Ciel without realising that Mega Man Zero was set in the
future relative to Mega Man, because I was just telling
stories with what I thought were cool sprites back then and often
didn’t know any of the relevant lore. It was only later that I read
up on this and realised my mistake, at which point I retconned Zero
and Ciel to make them into time travellers, who’d come back from a
bad future (the setting of the Mega Man Zero games) to try
and change history for the better. Sound familiar?
Anyway, this whole story arc concluded in 2005, when I made a
concerted effort to discontinue all the Mega Man stuff in
Eon’s Comic, while still giving it what I felt was a satisfying
conclusion. I realised by that point that it was a mistake to have
ever included Mega Man content, that I’d written it badly,
and I never made any references back to it ever again.
But I digress. The point is, Zero and Ciel were time travellers in
Eon’s Comic and were a reasonable target for the temporal
agents in the 2018 remaster. But coming to Eon’s World Vol.
1, a complete remake from the ground up, there was simply no need
for them, but I did still need a time traveller to justify Katherine
Elm’s debut. Fortunately, Silver the Hedgehog is a long established
character in Sonic fiction at this point and I feel like I’m
repeating myself here, so I’ll stop.
My point is, this story is basically the same as the one told in
Eon’s Comic #118 and #119, only Silver the Hedgehog is the time
traveller now. That and I’ve also changed the identity of
Katherine’s boss. In the original, they were another OC belonging to
a friend, but one I’ve long since lost touch with, which is why they
are not in this remake. But even if we were still in touch, I
imagine I’d have changed out their OC for Black Sabre in this story
arc all the same. I’ll say no more at this time, however.
Tomorrow’s the start of a new chapter, so come back then for more
Eon’s World! |
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