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I want to give credit to my significant other for the idea for Thrud’s test. The vast majority of what’s on this site is entirely from my head (plus reference) but sometimes I get some help. Oh, and something I should probably mention; not everybody is speaking English in this comic. It’s simply that the Thunderkind speak Dwarf, along with the languages of other creatures you’ll see in this comic. It’s a leftover from their godly past. 

This past month, I reached another milestone. Over four thousand unique visitors came to this site. So you might ask, “Gee, Alex, where are all the comments? Are you censoring everybody?” In fact, I have been spamming almost 99% of comments but that’s for a very good reason; that’s because they are spam. I get about a hundred comments a month but they’re mostly for cheap cigarettes and other things I can’t mention in a family webcomic.

So here is a challenge, my 4,000 viewers. Please comment. Bury me in them. Tell me what you think. If they’re printable, they’ll go in. The magic of this type of publishing is both immediacy and transparency. Please take advantage of both. Thank you.

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Oooh, a subtle pun. So much so, I hope you actually notice it. So now Ull is back? I meant to have the wyrm fade out like the Garmr but forgot. That’s what happens when you’re your own editor and you’re cranking out pages to make a graphic novel collection. As of this posting, it was several months ago but I still feel tired. I’m sure I’ve captured the feeling of brothers looking on when their sisters are hanging out with strange guys.

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Yeah, I had to look up an actual field hockey phrase for Thrud to use. There are surprisingly few of them out there. If she were in the Lingerie Bowl, I’d've had pages of Football phrases to pull from. But since she’s fourteen, this would have been a much different (and possibly illegal) type of comic. And check out the symmetry of the story with panel three. Look familiar? It’s called a ‘call-back’. I almost put it in the actual story in dialogue. 

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A friend of mine was a bit critical of my using a fade in a single panel to capture time passing (Page 76, bottom panel). The first three panels of this page are more the technique he thought I should use. I don’t think one is better than the other. Frankly this one’s easier. But twenty years ago, it would have been almost impossible to do the other one. Thank goodness for Photoshop. And see? I told you it was still summer. It’s like Hawaii; there are mountains that you can ski on the top and swim in a lagoon at the bottom. 

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