I’m not trying to be purposely vague, but when you read though the entire archives of a comic in two sittings time get blurred.

Also, remember the Cybers from Book One? Look at their eyes in this comic. See? They’re kinda like cheap ass television sets on the blink? All static-like? Yeah, dumb, right? Check out their later appearance right here. See? All red and glowy. Much more menacing.

That’s almost exclusively because of Zap and it’s artist Lepas. A few months after I started to read it they posted The Glow Swatches on their DA page.

From there I started to screw with all sorts of blurry, glowy, awesome.

So, if you don’t like it, blame them…

No, really, don’t. It’s not their fault I’m not as competent. Heh.

Anyhow, enjoy the sneak peek of Gunner in my little fan comic.

-Peace

(PS: Remember, I’m leaving on Wednesday, so I’m away from my comp. I’ll hopefully have something on Wednesday for you all, but I make no promises. There’ll also be filler upon my return on Monday, probably something PKF oriented. Your regularly scheduled updates will resume Wednesday July 29th, Gods permitting.)

Either way I’m as prepared as I’m going to get. Blargh…

If you stumble into here today wish me luck and pray to your respective gods/goddesses…I need all the help I can get.

I’m @#$%ing serious. Pray.

Now.

Please?

::Sigh::

Anyhow, if all goes well I’ll be back to the comic-ery later this afternoon. I did managed to squeeze in a few scripts over the week, which is nice, but I didn’t do any REAL comic work. Gods I’m not prepared for this thing…

@#$% Math.

I want to be an ENGLISH teacher for the gods’ sake!!

And don’t any of you DARE point out all the mistakes I make on spelling in this comic! I’m damned learnned in Engislsh!

Dam Lurned!

Heh…

Ok…Time to stop typing and go to sleep.

-Peace

I felt like I needed to remove any possibility of ‘Paoken is Tom’s father’ before the seed could be laid in any one’s head. Tom’s father is mortal. Completely and utterly. And the fact that there were more than one ‘Toms’ was suggested first by Kyren in Book One, but later affirmed by Ariea at her Reveal in Chapter Three.

I really don’t have much to say about today’s update, it’s exposition (badly needed exposition), Monday will see a return to the HOLD and more Stone-Sam antics.

However, I managed to do something to the Stories Section that had been bothering me for a while. There weren’t any indentations at the start of the paragraphs, the best I could do was include several periods and turn them white, so they would disappear. But after a little fooling around I’ve created a new template that comfortably creates little indentations for each paragraph. I know…I shouldn’t worry about such minor things, but it just BUGGED me.

Call me a perfectionist if you will, but my track record for grammar and spelling say otherwise.

-Peace

Seriously, this thing went though half a dozen tweaks so that I could make it as clear as possible and I STILL feel like it’s too wordy and confusing…but…let’s be honest here, it’s still better than half of Book One’s really wordy comics.

First of all, the title of this comic is a play on ‘Those Crazy Zargonians‘ which was Chapter Four of Book One. Also, the COMIC that this comic is directly referencing is #153, right here. See, I’m aloud to contradict a previous comic because Zog and Mog aren’t infallible and Dis ACTUALLY knows what’s going on. It’s nice to write loopholes int stories…you never know when you might need them down the road.

Haha…In all seriousness it’s nice to FINALLY  explain just WHAT the Hell Chris is! I’ve been sitting on it since ’06 for Gods’ sake.

Wednesday will have a REAL kick in the balls for Chris though. Seriously. Psyche-Destroying kind of kick in the balls.

And if you find it odd that Tom is less concerned with Dis being a ‘separate entity inside his mind’ than Chris being part of his soul, you have to understand that Tom’s come to grips with the fact that Dis is there, he’s not controllable, and he’s usually helpful (unlike Chris’ vicious self).

I’m not making a HUGE deal out of the revolution that The Power (I’m capitilzing it now, btw) came from a God is because I’m SURE you all guessed this one when Paoken all but STATED it at the end of Book One. But to anyone who’s reading from the start of Book Two will likely find this revelation rather major. Just as Tom does…since…you know…he was unconscious when it was revealed in Book One. Haha

(I just realized that Paoken smoked Ciggarets not Stogies at first…Weird…I always saw him as a Cigar kind of God…)

And how about that ‘Balloon’ Analogy, eh? Dis…Dis is the rubber-band in this instance and Chris is the ‘bubble’…I know, it’s not perfect, but I felt like a visual analogy would help. I hope you feel the same.

Anyhow, any questions feel free to ask (as usual). But I AM really a happy with this one…and I’m even happier with the next one.

-Peace

First, I KIND OF got the archives the way I want them…but they’re still kind of messed up. But I’m happy enough with now…

Anyhow, this comic spans about…six months? Nine? Of Chris’s life…and you get the explanation for the distinct absence of The Guardian…Chris choked his wrinkled ass to death. Or…well…I guess you can’t really ‘kill’ a mental disillusion, can you?

And you knew Chris likes the attention too much to keep quite as Dis babbled on.

I’m not going to talk too much about this comic, because Monday’s comic really goes into the back story and reasoning…this is really more of a ‘this needed to be explained’ kind of thing and the ‘soul comment’ is more of a teaser than an explanation in itself.

Trust me. You’ll fully understand this by the Monday.

I might have to tweak the dialogue some though…I’m not quite happy with it. It needs to be more clear…Sometimes my logic get jumbled between my brain and the page…This happened a lot early in Book One, but I’ve much more careful with it i recent years.

That and I totally re-wrote Chris’s part in this comic after Book One, Chapter Four. Well, not totally…but significantly. But all the stuff that’s going to be explained soon was decided on by the time Book One, Chapter Eight wrapped up. I’m kind of doing a juggling act making sure I’m not totally disregarding what was explained in Those Crazy Zargonians…and it’s rather hard.

Though I guess I could as Zog and Mog were really only making assumptions and guesses based on what little they understood…

That’s the problem with Book One, I kind of winged some stuff and now I’m struggling to make it work. But when it all clicks together it’s GLORIOUS…

Maybe at the end of Book Three I’ll do a ‘this is what didn’t make it in’ or something and tell you guys all the SHIT that I deemed pointless or useless to the plot…or things I totally @#$%ed around with from what I had originally planned.

Sometimes I feel like I’m reading this comic along with you guys…just all jumbled and jumping around until it all gets straightened out and put on paper.

I wonder if ‘real’ authors feel that way?

Or maybe I need sleep.

Either way.

-Peace

So why is he here now? Because he needs to be here…There’s so much of this arc that I’ve only decided to include in the last few weeks…I might as well just SCRAP the layout I had.

Oddly enough there’s fewer pages in the arc now though. Go figure.

Yes, Chris’s soliloquy is the SOLE reason Dis appeared as a skull and not as a dragon or statue or something else entirely. But I suddenly had this vision of Chris holding a skull and delivering the famous lines from Hamlet and this just HAD to happen. I’m not even a fan of Shakespere and this had to happen, lol.

I’m pretty happy with this comic all things considered. There’s a few panels that went a little wonky, but that’s the charm of being a comic artist with no artistic training. heh…

ANYHOW…I was digging though my pages earlier this week and I realized that about two months ago I nearly finished something but never posted it…Long story. But I cleaned it up and you can now find Information on the ‘Minor’ Planets of The PKF. It’s under the Extras/Information Page if you’re looking.

Enjoy.

-Peace

I’m also fairly sure that someone, SOMEWHERE will find this offensive (Either the ‘Atheist with a backup plan’ or the ‘On the rag’ comment) but to circumvent any complaints let me just say this:
(Holy crap I have smilies, woah)

Heh Heh…

Seriously though, it’s nice to show Zog and Mog being…well…brothers…It’s funny, everyone knows they’re brothers, but they never really act like it (Other than the odds or end occasion) but this is a good view of their life together. Snarky, but not totally mean to each other.

This is also a good chance to show a little more of the ‘religious’ aspect of the Universe. I’ve kind of talked about it before, but now strikes me as a better time than ever to talk about it…I haven’t really decided how to introduce more of that aspect yet…Maybe a little more on it later in the chapter (after the agents reassemble).

I don’t know.

But basically ‘The book of Guardians’ is a kind of galacitc bible…It takes a lot of different planet’s religious text and uses a few common threads to combine certain aspects of each one into a single religious text. However each planet has several different religious text (just like ours does).

Guardianism (as they call it) is a newer belief system and is much more ‘modernized’ than many others. Zog is actually Gurdianistic (as are their parents) where as Mog is Etheriest, which is a more traditional religion from Zargonian. Technically Ehteriest is polytheistic (many gods) but it focuses on the single Zargonian God, Etherio, who is the God of Free Thought. According to the Book of Guardians Etherio is actually another form of the god Kayooshen.

Though most Etheriests disagree (for obvious reasons).

For everyone who actually reads this little blog and went “Oh @#$%…does he expect us to remember all that?!” my answer is “No, how big of an asshole would that make me?!”. Like a lot of things in this comic it can be summed up by saying ‘There’s a lot of lore out there, and you only need to know a few things”.

Just keep in mind that there’s more than on religion and more than one system of belief in the wide Universe…and also keep in mind that just because two characters pray to the same God (Jenny and Adjana both pray to Ariea) doesn’t mean they’re from the same Religion (Jenny is Arieast and Adjana is Eliast).

See the crap you learn when you read the blog?

Seriously though, just sit back and enjoy. The lore of the PKF is going to come fast, hard, and (hopefully) well explained from here on out.

-Peace

Well…maybe a little…

But I’m not frickin’ Garfield over here.

Let’s be honest, the entire subtext of Roto’s character can be summed up as “But for the grace of god(s), there walk I” so it’s not like I haven’t been asking ‘hard’ questions…this is just the first time someone has actually come out and said it. Which is something I usually try to avoid…but to be totally honest this little tangent of musing by Dara serves a duel purpose.

No. I won’t tell you what that second purpose is…but feel free to start guessing. It should begin to become obvious as this arc goes one…The comic’s speeding up…so you’ll know sooner or later, but I like to hear people’s guesses.

And half of Book One was ‘what choices do we make’ and ‘did I just @#$% everything up?’…so I’m aloud to muse dammit!

Anyhoo, I cleaned up Dara’s appearance a little…he’s shaped a little better and his face looks less jankie in close ups. Doesn’t he look so thoughtful in panel seven? Or the weed’s getting to him. Either way.

I’ve gotten one or two questions in my inbox about Godly activities (Or I’m lying to save face) and I’ve taken that into consideration for the rest of this arc. Any other questions? It’s not like there’s a time limit on this…but I’d like to know so when I reexamine the rest of the arc I know what to add.

Be here Monday for a quick disembark from the agents and back to the HOLD and then Wednesday will see Tom, Chis and Skully venturing deeper into the cave.

-Peace

(And yes “But for the grace of God, there walk I” is from Angels with Dirty Faces. Because that’s the way I roll.)

If you’re wondering  “who the hell is this old dude and why the hell does Hana seem to know him?”, you didn’t read Lost Time, did you? Don’t worry. Here’s all you have to know to ‘get’ this comic:

Jorrin is the ‘watcher’ of Earth and he trained Hana at the request of Ariea. He’s also dead and 800+ years old. But that’s not really that important. Honest. You’re good to go.

I also lied. Omen will be appearing NEXT Hana installment. Sorry. But I suddenly decided to handle this arc differently than I had intended.

I thought I would be hiding most of the information given in this arc until later in the comic (maybe even in this chapter) but I was looking at my plans for the rest of this arc (and the rest of this book) and I realized, with a sinking feeling, that there’s really no BETTER place to include this information. So now is as good a time as any to explain The Keeper Gems and a few other things about Gods and Godkin.

That’s not to say that now wasn’t a good time, I just wasn’t prepared for it…so I kind of scrambled to assemble any important facts that needed to be imparted. I’m going to go back and make sure everything HAS been told before the end of this arc and I might have The Creator say a few words if everything goes according to his plan.

Who knows. I may have the agents fail. It’s not like they’re infallible or something.

I also added ‘Godkin’ to the dictionary, if you’re interested.

Also, you’ve met three Godkins already:
Darasoon, The Creator, and Yaren are all different Godkins.

And as Jorrin says, Omen is a Godkin as well. I had originally thought I’d have two different TYPES of Godkin, making Omen a different type then the rest, but I decided that the differences are negligible and are really just based on ‘why they were created’. Which was just stupid.

If you really want to call them something else: Dara, The Creator and Yaren are all ‘High’ Godkin and Omen is a ‘Lesser’ Godkin. But those aren’t official…yet…I won’t explain the differences, but Dara and the rest are more powerful than Omen is. Omen is just really, really smart.

Finally, I’m opening the floor to questions you might have about Godkin, the Gems and Gods in general. If there’s something you’d like to know, have thought about, or are just scratching your head over, ASK. If I plan to expose is later I won’t answer, but if it’s something I hadn’t thought of I’ll address it in the comic…I likely have an answer, but I may have decided it wasn’t important (Who Dis is, why Chis exists, and will Tom ever free himself of the aforementioned beings are off limits).

I also finished up a short story that will be posted sometime in the near future. So you all have something to look forward to. Or not. Lol

-Peace

But if you notice I’m really jut hinting at the same things with different perspectives…I mean, Kyren’s been playing his own little game since the first @#$%ing time he showed up. It’s funny, I always knew that Kyren would be one of the most complex of the gods, but I just realized that I think by calling myself ‘Paoken’s Keeper’ I’m really just saying I’m in control of the most easily manipulated of the gods…

That has to say something about me, right? Hell, there’s probably a good three or four page dissertation in there on my psyche.

Meh. Well, you finally get a chance to meet Ariea in a more ‘expanded’ way. I really enjoy writing for the Gods when they’re all together, they really act just like a family. Dysfunctional.

I’ve just spent the better part of the last…six?…seven? I don’t know…hours retooling my dialogue for the last little bit of this chapter. I’m very happy with it, but I still feel like I’m some how adding too much and too little explanation.

How? I don’t @#$%ing know…that’s just the way I roll I guess. Sigh.

But it shaped up nicely. I’m quite happy with how it all goes down. In case you didn’t notice were nearly at the end of this chapter, so I had to move fast to straighten it all up. I also had an epiphany on how to deal with something in the next chapter…so I’m quite happy…but it meant that I had to tweak my plans for the last of this chapter a little.

But it was all for the best.

If I think of something intelligent to say I’ll edit this post later in the day. Too tired to think of things now. Need sleepy.

-Peace