Bonus
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The Bunker
You may recall that we called upon the services of designer Mercedes Ahari to help us design our backgrounds. Here is an overview of the Bunker.
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Behind the Scenes : Good Resolutions (2)
While he’s mortally wounded, Wally triggers the explosive device in his shoe and blows himself up. This device was first introduced in “The Arrival,” which is part of “The Damned” storyline.
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Behind the Scenes : Good Resolutions
The scene on page 29 is very important—not to say crucial—to the establishment of our comic’s universe. As we’ve said before, our bad guys are not idiots. When they capture a member of the Black Orchestra, they kill him or they torture him brutally (and they don’t use over-complicated executions that provide the hero with an opportunity for escape, as satirized by repeated gags in the Austin Power series). This premise is the justification for Wally’s execution.
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Creating Action Scenes : Baptism by Fire
Transposing an idea into a drawing isn’t always easy. Very, very often, the drawing goes beyond the scriptwriter’s vision. But sometimes, the result isn’t as powerful as the image the scriptwriter had in mind. That doesn’t mean that the drawing wasn’t well done, but rather, that it’s lacking some spectacular effect. See, for instance, the first version of the explosion of the canon-buyers’ car in Bordeaux.
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Are We Playing with Flashbacks?
One of our readers asked about the link between Wally’s death and the story of when he arrived at the Bunker. He wanted to know if our use of the flashback technique was a nod to “Lost,” a TV series we’ve said that we admire. It’s a good question. We see one main difference between our temporal framework and the use of flashbacks by “Lost” scriptwriters. While they mainly used flashbacks to feed a given episode, we see all of our stories as part of one mosaic, which we hope to eventually reveal in its entirety. The order in which the various stories are published is not linear and, naturally, we want to keep some areas of our story shrouded in mystery.
