I was lucky that the family visited Sally's mother for two nights this week, which left me some time to write. The majority of this came out in two long late-night sessions.


There's some non-Parodyverse stuff that I'm keen to return to, although when its done I may well post a link here.


My thinking always was to cover the massive wider cast in the run up to the final fight then to focus down on the LL (and Champagne) as they slugged it out.

Of course, my intention was also to cover the events of what turned out to be UT#319-321 in one chapter. Hah.


The Parody Master is pretty much a bully, and I enjoyed putting him up against someone his own size for a moment. Notice he ran away.


You read the footnotes, right? I hope someone does, the damn things took me hours. Whose stupid idea was PV footnotes anyway?

The last big battle with the Parody Master took place far from Earth on a big flat chessboard plain. This time I wanted more interaction with known and interesting Parodyverse locales to give the fight a different texture, and I wanted to include innocents to interact with to make the threat more immediate. And to be honest, blowing up buildings and slaughtering extras is another way of showing the PM's a tough fight without killing off too many Legionnaires.


Well, the Storyheart tends to work the way stories should.

I wanted to find a role for Magweed, Griffin, and Samantha because all of them have in some ways been victims of the Parody War, and all of them deserved to play some small part in its resolution. I needed Jury to get a chance to face off against the PM too. I like to solve two problems by merging them into one scene.


Well, Lisa's back, and this time its personal. I'm glad to have finally worked through the arc we negotiated with her.

Now if you could just convince her that work is nothing like as important as replying to Parodyverse stories...


Are you really sure you want to know where that goes next? As a brother/guardian there are some things it's probably better you don't know. But of course we'll touch on some developments next time, when the Juniors return!

As for AG and Tricky, Scott sent me some e-mails with his intentions about the characters so I had something to go on. I just wanted to give them good final scenes.


You're welcome.

I'm also wondering how folks felt about Champagne's tagging along with the group (it was my first chance to write her interacting with the Legion and I'm still finding my way there), and about whether I went too far sidelining so many former PVB stalwarts.

> Bring on the epilogue!

I know what the first scene will be anyhow.