Don’t Worry, She Has a Great Idea
There you go Namyg. My daughter suggested ‘Killer’ and ‘Jo,’ in that order. Namyg’s backstory, and the back story of his friends, whom we’ll see week after next, we’ll get to in time. Places like Torgo confound me just a little, any big city does. I grew up surround by under 20k people, visits to places like Chicago, LA, DC, or the populated areas of Colorado blow my mind. I can’t wrap my head around where all those people could possibly come from, or what they could all be doing in a single place like that.
So back to Torgo, from day 5 of planning, when I knew I wanted a place like Torgo to exist, even before it had the name Torgo, I wrestled with how it came to be. I knew what Torgo was/is, but for what possible reason and from what possible places had all the creatures living there come? Namyg and his friends are going to help me both answer that question, and justify that same answer.
Vasilia’s plans for Namyg and his friends are really kind of cool. I’m stoked about getting those pages done and out the door. Vasilia is going to be getting her very own story-arc in the near future and I couldn’t be more excited about it. Heva and Vasilia are going to be my two great villains of the piece. One is the Bizzaro version of Merunga, a warped copy, the other will act as her Luthor, a twisted intellect bent on Merunga’s destruction. I don’t know if the twain shall ever meet.
Well that was a little… unexpected. I mean, given the way she explained her views on nonhumans to Ekho, I was not expecting to see her teaming up with one, much less a toss in the hay. Still, they do make a nice couple, a daywalking vampire(?) who eats vampires, and a sociopathic witch with a dangerously short attention span. Kinda like Bonnie & Clyde, only more fantastic.
Namyg will forever remember this special time as the worst one-night-stand ever. Vasilia isn’t a whole lot happier about it than Namyg eventually will be, but, a woman’s got to do what a woman has to do. Unlike the two characters involved, I am excited about this fling, and even more excited about what happens because of it.
Hmmm, cryptic…
Btw, what’s the deal with the acorn in the last couple of bottom panels? Because I have this theory of it as a metaphor for the oncoming ruin of Torgo, since Torgo is both place, person and event, a falling acorn is probably not a good sign.
I’m not yet prepared to comment on the the eventual fate of Torgo, but the seed thing will resolve itself fairly quickly.