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May 3, 2022

 

                                


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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