Chapter 4, Page 23 Rough
September 6, 2010
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If only that happened when she was freezing her feet off in the mountains.
OAO;; Thank God that can’t happen in real life.
If you weren’t expecting it, then yes, I’d still call it “spontaneous”.
Hmm.. this looks just like Molly.. in “The Books of Magic – Girl in the Box”. Coincidence? Love the art, anyway.
Dang, that spread fast! Or was it a big boom?
OMG! i just wont to see the update! how many chapters will it be? :)
see, now Im thinking…Roza maybe started the fire 6 pages back?
Dear Kelly, I think that things to be solved are piling up:
a)Biali was left behind and believed dead.
Then she just wakes up as from a nap, without any visible injure.
b)Roza fled in great despair, feeling they were leaving Biali behind.
Now she blames Biali for abandoning HER.
c)Roza believed Biali dead for several years.
Nevertheless she now says that she expected her dead sister to go looking for her.
Another comment:
Many chapters before I proposed the thesis that Esten was a too strong male character and that Roza was being diminished as protagonist. I said that depending on the male and taking orders from him was a weakening of the originally strong and independent female character; some other readers said that Roza was developing and growing.
Now she goes so hysteric that a fire starts…and our once resourceful Roza remains helpless…she just asks Esten to solve the problem and keeps still seeing the hamlet being engulfed by flames…¡so much for growing and developing!
Their relationship has mutated from a strong-willed protagonist that meets a mistaken bounty hunter, to a wise and cool adult that leads a emotionally unbalanced child.
OOOOH I LOVE YOUR COMIC!! :)
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeexcellent :D
can’t wait to see this in colour!
I think Roza’s doing fine, regarding the protagonist issue. She’s balanced between a brave girl seeking to end her curse, and a girl who has a hurt past, needing love and protection. And Esten is doing a smashing job as a guy who respects Roza and defends her. Bravo.
This is such a wicked page…I just love reading your comic.
In response to Machi, some possible theories/what I inferred:
a) Biali healed the bear, obviously she is a healer and her injuries are plain to see when he first nuzzles her, but then she glows brightly and only after that does she wake up appearing to have no injuries. Besides which, who knows if that person was even a doctor who checked for her heartbeat, perhaps he was mistaken.
b (and c since it’s basically just a rephrasing of b)) Roza says “she can’t be alive-” and only after that denial says Biali never came for her. Roza is less likely expecting the impossible from the dead, but rather, trying to cope with the idea that if her sister IS alive, that would mean her sister didn’t care about her enough to come find her. She is trying to make it possible to continue believing that her sister, if alive, would have done anything in her power to come to her aid.
As for the rest of it, Roza’s feet were still /causing/ the flames when she requested assistance. Had she tried to stop it herself she probably would have just spread the fire more.
I don’t know what comic you were reading, but Roza has needed and accepted others’ help from the start. She needed the Horse Prince to break her out of jail, she needed Notch’s help to find the phoenix, she needed Esten’s help when she mouthed off to Leith. You seem too quick to judge their characters. Strong willed is just a nice way of saying stubbourn, which is a trait of someone usually immature. As for Esten being wise and cool? Roza knows nothing of her curse or anything else of the world really. She just stumbles along trying to fix her blood curse. Esten, however, is older than she is and obviously knows more about a lot of things. You seem to just be jumping to conclusions about the characters before you let yourself really know them, because Roza seems to have never been a completely “strong independent character”, but rather is always trying to rely on someone else to try to fix her curse and tell her how to do that.
In response to Grimm:
a) No comments
b) When tragedy struck, Biali was left behind, alone and presumed dead, while Roza fled with her parents, so I see Biali as the abandoned one, and Roza felt it that way too, she was in great despair because she couldn’t help her sister ¿How did Roza reach to the inverse notion then? We still don’t know how Roza lost her parents.
About the last paragraph, I think you are right, I have been jumping to conclusions: Roza looked like a heroine and I expected her to be one. A heroic character has some requirements, she or he doesn’t need “love and protection” – as Lauren says – she needs adventures to display her prowess, she grows by overcoming challenges, she must show her “muchness”, as Mad Hatter would say.
You are right, I was longing for the Roza that could have been, you depict her as she has really become.
I must add that in the first book I didn’t see any hint of the future apparition of the old stereotype “strong man protects immature woman”. It came as a sad surprise and I still don’t see it’s need. ¿Why Roza had to become second fiddle in her own story?
Heroes who need no help whatsoever, who are capable of completely overwhelming all problems alone while smugly refusing the help of others, are boring as sin and have been since after Beowulf.
Heroes who must struggle to overcome their problems, who have strength in friends, and have a weakness in their past are much more approachable and amazing for what heroic deeds they DO manage.
You’re looking for a comic-book styled superhero with superhuman abilities and no room to grow. Roza is meant to be one who we can connect with and appreciate the plight of. This scenario is a very intense weakness that Roza will hopefully grow to overcome.
In that sense, this comic is succeeding rather well I think.