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Actually if you’ve been paying attention Victor’s burying the facsimile Bacchus switched posing as Samuel (HERE). But hey, it’s the thought that counts I guess.
I saw redline, loved it. It’s the perfect amount of style over substance. Usually that bothers me, in this case, perfect amount. Also Mamoru Hosoda’s new film (the genius that did “girl who leapt through time” and “summer wars”) has a trailer. Not big into anthro stuff but he’s such an incredible storyteller, can’t wait.
This is seriously one of my favorite albums this year. Really fun to draw to.
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But… this is a flashback, right? Because that other character has only appeared in flashbacks. While Bacchus did his switching in the present. As to Bacchus… who? Has that character ever been named? Do we know anything about him or what he wants?
This is too confusing for me to read this way. It’s great, but I need to come back in a year and read it all at once.
I didn’t think it was that complicated, but I’m the one writing it. These are all people in his head. They pop up whenever they want. I’ve just had them popping up sequentially. This would be the first unsequential visit so I can see how that would be weird. But yes he’s burying what he thinks is the anomalous seed now. As for baccus, you’ve seen him twice. HERE posing as Samuel. And HERE where he is named. I sprinkled him in as set up to the next act, which starts in like 3 pages. The second act is all about Bacchus and Thomas (our villains). So don’t worry it’ll all make sense… I hope.
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I understand your confusion, I had it too. These last ten or so pages have prompted me to archive binge 3 times. Not because of the poor writing or anything but because it’s been over a year since some of these thing have been said.
It simple terms the plot seems to be something like this:
Victor Anomalous is a old geneticist who used to work on a secret project that was supposed to be an alternative to the atomic bomb. The A-Bomb was finished first though and the military shut Victor’s project down.
40 years later someone (Bacchus) has taken an interest in all of this and has set up a master plan to get Victor to finish his abandoned project without Victor realizing he’s being manipulated at all. Bacchus is doing this by making Victor hallucinate (or sometimes just think he is) and influencing what he sees, somehow.
After all of this Bacchus probably has some sort of evil mustache-twirling plan to use Victor’s project to take over the world. Or create love and world peace we don’t really know.
Yep, that’s pretty much it. Seriously though, after this wraps it’s all Bacchus all the time. VILLIANY!
Bacchus, Bacchus, Bacchus. I have to say I was happy when I learned that the villain in this series was named after my favorite of the roman gods, though I haven’t yet spotted many parallels between the two. Maybe the insanity inducing bit.
Also, I like the texture you put around Samuel in this page, It makes him stand out a lot more and at the same time seem more personal to Victor. Old-timey comic style for the win.
P.S. I have to say I’m impressed by Victor’s apparent ability to level a mountain with nothing but a shovel.
EDIT: I mean Finneus not Samuel. I don’t know why I switched the two names around in my head. Too many ghosts in the old machine I guess.
Victor created a weapon that made the atomic bomb look like a bitch. Leveling a mountain with a shovel? Not that difficult.