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HH
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Al B. Harper

Subj: Kind of like... sEPtIC?
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 06:36:12 am EDT
Reply Subj: More than epic
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 11:20:24 pm EDT


> Ah, it seems I have returned just in time...although, my eyes are now hurting from spending all morning glaring at the screen as I caught up on #319 onwards to this momentous conclusion.

I told Jason not to go to that new format. Sue him.

> No one, no one does multiple cast like you do. And it shines here. Not just bringing back many of the old favourites, but giving some of them key roles to play (like Sersi), to effortlessly sliding in new characters such as Champagne (she fits in well in my opinion). I usually don’t like the whole “let’s bring back all the old characters for the final battle” scenario, because it often leaves the impression that the “current” team is not up to scratch, but here it worked well.

Actually, with a couple of exceptions, characters stayed in the battle in proprotion to how often they reply to Untold Tales. I also gave slightly elevated prominence to those characters I knew I was featuring for possibly the last time.

> And you managed to shift them off to happily ever after, I note your comments on apprehension of this fact, don’t feel so, if the posters return it is an easy return for the character also. And anyway, thuddy thinks Dr Who is better than Dr Harper – he had to go!

Poor Al. Perhaps if we introduce him to some Daleks?

Actually, the post-Parody War universe needs some new alien threat races. I think the Skree and the Skunk have lost their threat credibility for now. I was speculating what alien life forms to parody next. Weaponmasters? Cylons? Klingons? Shadows? Orcans?

> And not only was this multi-cast, but multi-location! From Wakandybar to Fish-city! Epic really doesn’t give this story justice.

The shifting location was one of my attempts to make the battle feel different from the others in the series. It also allowed the Parody master to cut loose in nastier ways that he could have done in Paradopolis or GMY if was wanted them for later.

> I was pleasantly shocked by some of the developments too. Didn’t see Tricky leaving, that was a big one.

That was all Scott's choice.

> One of my favourite moments was Visionary’s comments:

> “I can’t be proved real or fake. I’m a placeholder keeping a cosmic monster from reality. I live in a transdimensional lighthouse. I’ve been a hologram and a teenager and host for an elder being and head of a pantheon and CIC of Earth’s armed forces and husband to the goddess of HTML. My friends are artificial intelligences and pure thought beings and hemigods and probability-twisters and superheroes and aliens. My son’s an imaginary griffin and my daughter’s a faerie princess.” Visionary shook his head. “Of course I can use this. This is the Storyheart. I’m all about the stories.”

There's a limited amount of things that a non-powered character like Vizh can do in an all-out battle issue so I was glad to find a use for him at the end.

> Lovely. I congratulate you on an excellent job!

Jolly good.




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