Two years ago today, the first OF DOOM comic appeared. As of today I have two hundred and forty-two comics completed (not counting filler comics), with 237 of those posted on the site. Not a bad effort, I feel, and some of the things I've done have been truly good. Similarly, some things have been very, very bad, but at least I've gotten better.
If you're reading this, you've stayed with me for two years worth of comics by now. I hope you've enjoyed the trip, but be warned: what's coming next will be even better. I know what I'm doing now, more or less, and I've made some plans that should take the story to some interesting places.
This time last year Leeroy and Cometh were in the forest after a battle scene that I really could have handled better. We hadn't reached Evankeep yet, the King was still alive, pistols and muskets were unheard of, and I had finally made the decision to stop making things up as I was going along and start writing something resembling a plot. You may have noticed that the art in the comic is much better than it was when I started, but I think the most improvement has been in my storytelling skills. Not necessarily in writing the dialogue of each comic (though I hope I am better at that by now) but in fitting everything together into a larger, more epic picture. Over the past year I think I have done that. I got through the story arc I wanted to tell in that year--namely, the death of King Memnor--and fleshed out the world quite a bit. This time last year I had maybe half of the characters I do now, which I find fascinating. For this second anniversary I wanted to draw all the characters from the comic, but when I started I realized that there were way too many for the time and space I had. So what you get instead is this array of selected characters, fine ladies and gentlemen that you have come to know over the past two years.
If you need me, I'll be hanging out on stage left with Rawkins. Thanks for reading OF DOOM, everybody, and stay tuned: I've got some plans for where the story is headed, and I think you'll like where it goes.
-Adam out
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
