by Lewis Lovhaug

Wow, an arty shot! We haven't had one of those in awhile!

And yes, "iniquitousness" is a word.

This was one of the few pages of the comic that I actually scripted out. Not a highly detailed one, mind you, but the dialogue needed to be worked in right. See, it's difficult for me to come up with the philosophy/religion of the Darkness beyond what has been seen in my books and even then, it's been mostly about rejecting happiness. Since I don't believe in the same things as the Darkness, my logical little mind has trouble coming up with rationalizations for the terrible things that followers of the Darkness do (not that I agree with the rationalizations), since they believe themselves to be morally perfect. The original scripting for this page had a looooot of text bubbles, so many so that I fear if I had included everything, the entire page would've just been text. As such, I made sure to streamline it down and I actually like the results here. Okay, we've got a baseline for the Darkbringer's beliefs here, so now let's examine why he thinks heroism and the light are wrong in the next two pages.