Ello you loverly lot!! Golly, so the Lithium series is finished, eh? I just read it back through, and what a delightful little story it was, eh? I thought I’d highlight this little moment in the final comic – I’d always planned to have Karen’s walk of death down a corridor decorated with Rembrandt’s work because … you know. It’s super appropriate, and we go from stormy seas through minor Prodigal returns and onto Golgotha (note God’s gold throne in the next bit has skulls on it; cos Golgotha means the place of the skull … anyway …)
But I didn’t actually think that the perfect little coincidence pictured above would work quite so well – the crosses made by the shadows. So the final painting on the corridor wall, hinting where the story is going, is the Crucifixion – God walks, hands behind back, without defending himself against the coming moment, as Karen continues to stab him with her words. They walk towards the place of the skull, up the hill and through the crowds.
I’d setup the simple harsh lighting to try and get this chiaroscuro effect, in homage to Rembrandt. And I was hoping that maybe we’d get a cross shape onto his back from her hand – but I hadn’t planned the one projected onto her back! That was a 90% fluke (I knew the window panes could possibly do that but I wasn’t expecting it, until I saw the test render and tweaked it to make it clearer).
So she carries the cross of death projected onto her back, and she then projects it straight onto God! Cool huh?!! Like, this isn’t a religious thing necessarily – it also works from a philosophical point of view (in which God = ‘love’).
Karen has been asked over and over again to step into life (Michael gives her multiple outs; Michael, like Gabriel and Raphael … is ‘of God’. Funnily enough St Michael is also Patron Saint of Military Personnel but let’s not go into that whole sidequest). And again and again, Karen chooses death; she chooses control, punishment, the power-hungry path rather than the path of grace and humility.
So of course she crucifies the truth standing before her.
With a little shadow.
Anyway, I was pretty pleased with that one. How many people noticed it? I bet it’s roughly zero, but heck I enjoyed it, heheh.
Join me next time, when I’ll blog about the mistakes in the comic (which are many!), and why I’m not going to fix them! Hohoho.
PS. If I was to list Easter Eggs in this comic, we’d be here all day so let’s just say there’s a bunch and leave it at that. I’ll probably have to wait for a few more comics to be produced (including the next Rather Magnificent comic), before they all come out. And I also put some Easter Eggs in there which refer to comic series that haven’t even been started, so I kinda don’t want to point them out in case I never get round to actually making those comics! Hehehh. Ahem. I suffer from an infinite supply of ideas, but a finite amount of time in which to make them.
Here’s an easy one anyway:
… that’s Sam Javelin’s briefcase, still sitting there from when he threw his report away in Telepathic Hentai Tentacle, in case you were wondering why he eventually got fired heheh. Good fun, weaving all these weird little stories together 🙂
