Okay, loyal readers, due to how the comic is going to be slow to finish uploading anyway, I’m torn. Do I spend more time colorizing the unfinished pages? It might not take that much time but it will still slow down the reuploading process. Hrrrrmmm…..
Honestly, I’m enjoying rereading. Taking some time now to finish the incomplete pages makes a lot of sense. I wouldn’t even mind if the upload was a page a day rather than a chapter or two a day; you could build a buffer of new pages while you colored the old ones, and go back to the three-times-a-week schedule when you hit Chapter 18 with a couple weeks in the can.
I’d vote for taking the time to do the colorizing.
Glad to have you back on the air, BTW!
by all means, colorize.
this is one of the most fascinating fictional worlds i’ve come across. seamless integration of magic and science without either one being a poor cousin. very hard to do.
Something to consider is that, technically, in a world like TDD where magic is real, reproducible and publicly known, science would *include* magic, as a branch on the same line as physics, chemistry, or biology.
Even if there’s a technology vs magic antithesis thing going on (unlike here), where one doesn’t work well in the presence of the other (which doesn’t really make much sense to me, but whatever), science would simply attempt to quantify this effect while learning as much as possible about both.
It’s possible this wouldn’t be done in public, if there’s some kind of taboo against it, but many humans are more than curious enough to do it anyway.
The only decent reason I’ve seen for technology to be underdeveloped is when magic is so easily accessible (compared to technology) that it is used instead. Of course, if you want to argue semantics (which I guess this post has as its premise), magical devices (artifacts etc) can be considered a form of technology…
Magic being underdeveloped has more potential causes, but they generally boil down to it either being kept secret, being difficult to access (e.g. requiring some rare innate talent), or being impossible to develop in the first place (e.g. if each spell is a gift from some deity and no variations work at all).
I will agree that we rarely see this kind of seamless integration in fiction, no matter how likely it would be in reality – probably because it is rather difficult to do well, like you said.
Which just makes it all the more impressive how well it is done here in TDD. 🙂
Wow. That was a really long and well-put response! Thanks. It means a lot to me. Yeah, I do like to go for a seamlessness with regards to magic/science integration…plus I think that medieval-ish settings are way, way overplayed for fantasy.