Barb Division is the Celestial Union’s deniable ops crew, carrying out the missions that require less discretion and more indiscriminate murder when the diplomatic efforts pursued by the Union under the auspices of PROJECT PROMETHEUS don’t pan out.
Anyway, turns out Molo lived in my old stomping grounds of Denton, and so in one of the most surreal yet positive experiences in my life, iIwent out for drinks with my round 4 opponent the very first night of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This epilogue also began a continuing trend through my other rounds, namely Fei keeping in touch with the people she’s met through the tournament. There’s absolutely no way this will come up later on.
This is the first glimpse you get of Tranquility, Aldrin’s ebon devil companion. As I’ve mentioned previously, devils in Fei’s world take the form of technological constructs rather than the more traditional forms they take in the wheel; Tranquility’s form[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was also the first time I decided to write an epilogue for one of my tournament comics, since I felt like I should put a nice little bow on this story in particular.
So this was around the time that I started the ball rolling on some recurring plot elements that would make up Fei’s overall story arc. Honestly, actually setting up these dominoes was a huge gamble in and of itself in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And this is the moment that forever cemented “disaster hero” as core to Fei’s entire character arc.
The cowboy skellington is Lucius Sumac, one of the original 258 entrants who didn’t make it in, but whose design I still enjoyed. Their artist was 77 Noodles Swirl in the Bowl.
The fellow getting his head blown off in this page was a competitor by the name of Yato, whose main power was the ability to resurrect (painfully, as a caveat) from the cursed gourd he carried with him at all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…