Aikonia Webcomic - Chapter IV, Page 10 Comment

Chapter IV, Page 10

The Final Struggle

Hello everyone!
Aside from the April Fools' jokes everyone was doing on the internet, last week was pretty uneventful. I couldn't even find any interesting finds to link you to that wouldn't be jokes. Speaking of which, the blog post we did last week was a joke, for those of you who did not see the update we did the next day.
Have a nice week!

drose said:

Good Guy Enceladus. Way to take one for the team Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 12:18AM Reply

Forks said:

Maan. I kind of wish that you'd played up the expression on Deimos' decapitated head. But still- a great page regardlesss. Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 01:30AM Reply

That one guy said:

I think the first two panels could benefit from a "Wa wa waaaaaaaaaa" sound effect immensely. Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 02:24AM Reply

MattxAus said:

Wow, jeez. Sheikah practically totally called it. I thought Andrew-David was being jokily sarcastic o-o Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 02:28AM Reply

Andrew-David replied:

I was being jokily sarcastic. Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 12:20PM

MattxAus replied:

he still partially called it. give him some credit :P Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 09:34PM

Sheikah replied:

Her, but thanks anyway. Posted on April 9th, 2013 at 02:18AM

MattxAus replied:

my mistake, sorry. :S
I have a few problems identifying whos who in the story, like a few others, let alone the commenters, who dont have drawn chars :P

(oh, that'd be cool. any chance for a website update, allowing us to make profiles and create Aikonia-esque profile image characters? :D) Posted on April 11th, 2013 at 03:56AM

Sheikah replied:

That *would* be awesome. Either that, or we could come up with a few gender-indifferent pronouns :P Posted on April 11th, 2013 at 01:08PM

Andrew-David replied:

There are gender-indifferent pronouns: "They," "them," and "their." Posted on April 11th, 2013 at 01:55PM

MattxAus replied:

Usually I do, but it begins to sound really ... robotic and politically correct (PCness has gone really overboard in recent years) after a long period of time :/

(Is this hole I'm digging for myself deep enough yet? :P) Posted on April 12th, 2013 at 07:12AM

Tim replied:

Stop giving zhim a hard time. ;) Posted on April 12th, 2013 at 02:18PM

MattxAus said:

btw... so far all life-magic seems to be in this series is stabbing people with something.. then stabbing someone else with the blood stained stabbing implement.... is murder that magical? O-o Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 02:30AM Reply

Someone replied:

Don't forget they're stabbing each other with a *magic* something. Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 09:14AM

Ziska said:

Hang on because that mage looked more like Deimos then Enceladu so who actually died? cause Deimos had the sideburns Enceladus didnt....WHO IS DEAD! Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 07:48PM Reply

Faenhir replied:

Deimos went all "sneak attack bitch!" on Enceladus a couple of comics ago, then the Magicka demon decapitated Deimos. Enceladus recovers from Deimos' attack and grabs the demon so Cyril can have a shot at killing it using his life force somehow. Well, that's just the way I see it. Not entirely sure how people can be confused by this. Posted on April 8th, 2013 at 09:48PM

ziska replied:

Wow now I feel stupid it had been so long that I didnt recongize that beardo was Enceladus really freaked me now hahaha gah. Thanks for the explaination. Posted on April 9th, 2013 at 08:38AM

Pudding said:

I'm sorry, I have a question...
You guys have a new artist, are you guys working on replacing the banners and advertisement art from Teidrich's to this current artists?
If so, I think you should definitely get them up quickly, leaving katie's art up after she's left the comic seems like false advertising to me and it makes me uncomfortable to read the comic... It just seems a little deceptive.
Posted on April 9th, 2013 at 02:00AM Reply

Andrew-David replied:

What banners and advertisement art are you talking about exactly?
Also, Katie was a huge part of the comic, just because she isn't illustrating anymore, doesn't mean she did not contribute to it for the past two years. We can't just negate/cancel out everything she's done, that would be rude.

Ira has better things to do than go around and re-illustrate every single thing that Katie has illustrated for the comic so far.
And besides, Katie is still part of our team. She works with us on other projects and she will be illustrating the next comic covers and some future merchandise. Posted on April 9th, 2013 at 02:44PM

ShadowDragoonFTW replied:

I think he's referring to banners that appear as advertisements on other sites, NOT completely re-drawing all of Katie's old comics... Posted on April 12th, 2013 at 05:07AM

Andrew-David replied:

But the first 3 chapters (126 pages) were illustrated by Katie. How would showing Katie's illustrative work in the banner ads that appear on other sites be false advertisement/misleading/deceptive?

We'll eventually make new ads with Ira, but not right away as we're focusing on building a page buffer first. Posted on April 12th, 2013 at 11:30AM

MattxAus replied:

Doesnt matter either way - the advertisement banners introduce new people to Aikonia, people who start at page 1. People who can live through the Golden.... Magic* Age #1 Posted on April 13th, 2013 at 10:40AM

Nyomi said:

It's difficult to follow the action of this battle because of the art style and panel layout. I know you guys weren't trying to get a clone of Katie for the new artist, but these newer comics lack her clarity and subtlety of detail. I've more or less given up trying to read this comic - I really want the new artist to succeed, but they need more experience and feedback. Posted on April 14th, 2013 at 03:41AM Reply

MattxAus replied:

i read the comic, check back the next day for the comments on "WHAO, [character] is so BADASS, totally doing [action] to [character 2]!" to follow. so far so good. Posted on April 14th, 2013 at 05:08AM