The script and story for The Forester is pretty much in its final form. Now I’m finally producing more pages!
A lotta people asked me why Ardyn and Kyra wanna kill each other. Up to that point, I realized I didn’t know why. When I read the script again, I decided that I needed to make it obvious to the audience why Ardyn is so emotional from the get go. That lead me down my own rabbit hole of brainstorming. It involved questions about what they were like as kids, what their parents meant to them, and the events that lead up to their separation.
It was worth it! I gotta say that the story is far more emotional than it was before. It was lacking that oomph it needed to take it over the edge. But then some complications happened and I had to rewrite a bunch of the ending. I had to rethink what the central themes of the story were. I started writing this story because I was really tired of other works bringing dead characters back to life because they were popular. At the time, I was thinking about Dragon Ball Super. It brought characters back to life all the time and they had brought Frieza back for the Tournament of Power arc. Yeah, eventually I warmed up to the decision, but I felt that it was cheap at the time.
Now the story has evolved into one that briefly explores how we all should find the right motivation to do what’s important. It’s a more compelling theme than “dead characters need to stay dead” I think. Haha!
Anyway, I’m really happy that production is in full swing! Here’s the comic’s thumbnails for the next episode. Subscribe to my newsletter to get updates as they happen. You can also follow me on Bluesky.
The Forester is on hiatus. I'm hard at work drawing up the rest of it, don't you worry!
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