Update 12
I have so many ideas and plans, but I can’t really talk about most of them without HUGE spoilers. On the art front I’ve made some headway, but not a ton.
As always I feel bad about the length of time it has taken me to get up and running, and continue to be excited about what this comic will be once it is.
One thing I can share (wtf am I even doing, I talked enough up there didn’t I?) is that the reboot is going to have a “lore section” to the site with updates coming out along side the pages. The idea here is to have a place to keep track of characters, locations, events and objects with significance. Think of a video game with a panel on your pause menu with descriptions of all the enemies you’ve encountered and lore you have uncovered. Like the scan log from Metroid Prime for example. This would be supplemental material not necessary to understand things, but definitely a big resource to have when you’ve got questions and aren’t sure which things are supposed to be a mystery, or have just been glossed over by the direction the plot moved.
It’s stuff like that where I think if I do this right, this comic could become a really big deal.
*VIBRATES WITH EXCITEMENT*
First of all: MEREDITH. MY *GIRL*. IVE MISSED YOU SO DEARLY. Also, interesting to see Vito as a ‘zombie’, but considering his job, I can imagine why he’d mess around with necromancy on a regular basis! I’ve always wondered though; what ages are the Wight kids in relation to each other? Are Alaster and Merry older than Jericho and Sam? I’ve always automatically thought that Jericho was oldest, and then Alaster, Sam, Meredith…… but I might have just been going based on height, lol.
I’m also REALLY hype to learn more about Magitech (I’ve had a fan character rolling around my brain that’s related to that, so it’s nice to see some more info), and I think the lore section is SUCH a good idea. We all remember how so much stuff in the old comic was a ‘secret’, when it really, really, wasn’t supposed to be. Heck, it’s not even an entirely unprecedented idea; the comic Sister Claire has it’s ‘Missing Moments’, which are written short stories meant to fill in gaps in various characters backstories without slowing down the main plot by stopping for endless flashbacks. I can’t wait to see it!
(Also, happy belated halloween!)
It’s been a long long time since a age list for the cast was publicly available… and it’s not like I took it down or anything. There used to be this site where you would take in and answer questions, and I had a page there for the comic. That site went down years ago… might have gotten re-purposed into a sketchy dating site, actually… either way anything said about the comic there has ceased to be… kinda like how the forums for the comic got eaten by the void out of nowhere, destroying tons of commentary.
But missing stuff aside, I do know the relative ages of the Wight kids. Alaster is the oldest(29), followed by Jericho(27). Samantha stopped aging as a kid, but is still technically older(25) than Merry(19). The implications of these ages are rather interesting when you stop to think about it. There is a 10 year gap between Alaster and Merry, yet only a 2 year gap between Jericho and Samantha. The matter of their mother never comes up because any idea I ever had about it was too dark for me to feel comfortable declaring as canon… but suffice to say a marriage with Arthur couldn’t have ended well… so those two in particular needed to be quite close in age.
Maxwell being concerned with his legacy more than anything didn’t have a second kid until he had become frustrated with Alaster, hence the huge gap. I never developed out much around it, but it’s likely Maxwell’s wife died in some tragic fashion after Merry was born. Maxwell didn’t consider the option of naming his daughter as his heir, and felt he was out of options for passing the torch… setting off his schemes in the first place.
So yeah there was this whole thing going on under the surface just from their ages.
But things are a bit different now on all fronts… so don’t take any of that as relevant moving forward.
Oh yeah, I figured this stuff would be different going forward.XD
And yeah, those ages are a LOT different from what I thought! I thought Merry was like, 15, but that’sssss cuz she was like a foot shorter than Alaster, so I assumed she wasn’t done growing yet. Alaster might just be tall, lmao. I also assumed that… well, Jericho and Sam’s dad sucks, so I kind of assumed they were both “accident” babies without the same mom (which could result in a possible age gap). Would also explain why they weren’t too close either. (I love the idea of Alaster being the oldest though and not-so-subtly babysitting all of the kiddos due to…poor options with regard to parents.) I did guess correctly with regards to Al and Merry’s mom though, hooray! I’m not gonna lie, the topic of the Wight kids’ moms was something I always thought about considering how badly that trainwreck of a household needed them, lol.
Can you do some sort of an official cover for this? (Assuming one isn’t already present.) As a troper, I appreciate that you care enough about us to put a link in the headers of the website. However, the page would be much better if I could place a cover image there.
I’ll put that on my to-do list for once I’m ready to launch the reboot.
The TVTropes page for this comic has been a mess for quite a while and I’ve never felt quite right about being the one to expand it… But setting up some image for over there is definitely something I should do.