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IamNoHere In reply to neurotype-on-discord [2020-01-05 12:52:43 +0000 UTC]

Hi, and sorry for replying so late.

As for the 'somehow', Axolotl arranged it. Before his (canon) demise, Bill invoked Axolotl, the god of resurrection (and literal axolotl). Not right in the show but additional materials, Axolotl said (among other things) this about Bill:

"If he wants to shirk the blame,
he'll have to invoke my name.
One way to absolve his crime --
a different form, a different time."

So in my comic, he got the second chance -- after an accidental fall of the infinity dice, this time, created another rift and Bill's friends with Kryptos as their new leader established Weirdmageddon II, Axolotl resurrected Bill -- under the condition that he will help the main characters stop the apocalypse. Axolotl never said for how long, though...

You are right about the missing establishing shot. I want to cram so much action into every page that I often don't have enough space for them I should do what I've done a few times and make an establishing shot out of the title panel itself.

In the previous page, I have more of an establishing shot, of Bill sitting in an armchair (his new throne isn't completed yet) in the Fearamid telling his (heavily edited and made-up) story of how he came back from the dead to Kryptos.
To answer your question, he's trying to reassert himself rather than inching towards the exit. Given how high in the sky the Fearamid is, the exit wouldn't do a mortal meatsack body much good, haha.

"Nyah-nyah tone"... good way to put it xD In the show, they wouldn't dare to disobey Bill, but now, seeing how he actually needs the cane now, and Kryptos doesn't pay him any respect... To be fair, one can't truly blame them, given how Bill treated them in the show. I think both parties were bad friends to each other.

Hm... You are 100% right, Bill wouldn't talk about his predicament that openly, so this is exactly what I was worried about. I must have written both himself and me into the proverbial corner. The thing is, what else could he have done? He's been stripped off his powers, stuck into a weakling human body (the cane isn't the only thing he'll have to deal with -- or rather, the former is among the latter's results), and to make it even worse, the short time limit Axolotl gave him is slowly but steadily running out. He has to fulfill Axolotl's orders soon, and he has no power to do so himself. He *could* technically pretend he's still got his powers but he knows he'd have to prove it sooner or later. Maybe he could have pretended that he'd been striped off his powers forever (and wouldn't rise back to power once he fulfilled Axolotl's demands) but then he would be just a disposable fleshbag... So he bets his cards on his friends still wanting him for their boss...

Maybe it was a move too stupid for him to make. Would you have any idea what he could have done instead, how he could have tried to manipulate them, please?

As for the books about comic-making, I'll try to get my hands on them.

Thank you for the detailed and thought-out critique! It gave me many things to think about and articulate into words for the first time (such as Bill's thought process in this page)

ps: You said you won't mind follow-up questions, so would you please give your thoughts to the things I elaborated upon above? Thank you in advance!

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neurotype-on-discord In reply to IamNoHere [2020-01-06 02:31:01 +0000 UTC]

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IamNoHere In reply to neurotype-on-discord [2020-01-06 10:47:31 +0000 UTC]

Hm... You're right. If you read along (if you want to, that is), you'll see I made him 'lose' this round -- his (former) friends overpower him easily -- but not the 'game' itself. He's creative, indeed, and you can bet he will whip up an alternative plan to test out  

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