We’re ringing in the new year with a boom here at the PKF, arn’t we?
Remember, this weekend I’ll be updating the site to the new WordPress…so if I’m down, don’t worry, we’ll be back shortly.
Haha, I’m actually really, really happy with this whole comic. You get a chance to see the Director being something other than a whiny little pain in everyone’s ass. Which is nice.
It’s funny, when I first created the Director I actually intended to have him be a relatively nice guy…but he was much more fun to make him an asshole…now he’s starting to peter out a little more. He’s a complicated character to write for. At first he was just a dick with no reason other than he hated Tom and the other agents…but I’ve slowly realized he’s got a very good reason for hating Tom the way he does…so I’ve managed to humanize the ornery old bastard in my mind…
But he’s still angry and easily riled…
It’ll be interesting if I can bring him back from the brink of ‘He’s just an EVIL, EVIL little man’ that I managed to make him into at the end of Book One. It’s a tricky line I have to walk…he’s fiercely loyal to his men and would do anything for them, but he would never endanger the ZPF…he’s in a position of great power and responsibility which has left him with very little in the way of friends or other humanizing aspects of life…
His job’s taken two wives and a daughter…he’s…well…he’s obsessed with making the ZPF all he can make it before he has to retire…it’s quite literally his legacy at this point.
But I don’t want to ramble too much…especially since this chapter reveals a bit more about the man behind the old wooden desk…
Just remember, Eugene respects the Director a great deal…he’s been good to Eugene…but Eugene also knows the Director will do what’s best for the ZPF before he’ll do what’s best for the individuals in the organization (illustrated by his unwillingness to save Adjana at the end of Book One)…So Eugene is both willing and unwilling to go out of his way to help the Director…it’s complicated.
Have I ever told you I sometimes question my sanity for deciding to make The PKF my first foray into the world of Comickery? Because damn…It’s a bitch to keep my head above water sometimes…
And what the HELL is up with his jowls?! Seriously? Why did I stick those on him? Haha…but damned if they don’t look right.
Anyhow…Remember, for the foreseeable future Hunter ALSO updates on Fridays. He swears up a storm, so NSFW.
Good Night and once again, Happy 2009…it’s a trip I’ve made it this far, eh?
-Peace
