Here is another batch of writer notes on Sorcery 101. If you want to read ahead on these got ahead on these head over to my patreon.
Title page
It’s all sepia tone cause I through Sorcery 101 try to keep flashbacks color coded. If Pat’s telling the story they are sepia tone cause he’s old timey. Seth ones are usually red. Ally’s purple. Danny’s and minor characters are blue.
So from this chapter and the next one the redos were slightly easier because I didn’t have to rearrange the art too much and the files I had were big enough for me to ink them in Manga Studio. I don’t usually ink digitally, but it was just the easiest way.
Also the writing starts to get tighter here because I was doing full scripts before hand.
page 335 – 337
So flashback time. Pat did murder a lot of his family. Seer guy he is killing here is his brother-in-law. In hindsight I should have made this scene not in English. Pat didn’t grow up speaking English and all the other scenes similar (aka Suzanne’s flashback in As We Were) aren’t translated. Pat is much more freckley when he got more sun.
page 338 – 339
And of coarse Pat gets woken up cause he sleeps during most business hours. I always like if it people figure out the big dramatic secrets on their own. So Will is just trying to give Pat opportunities to fess up about being a vampire.
page 340 – 346
This airport is based off the airport in Savannah Georgia cause it was just the one I was the most familiar with at the time. Well that and Logan but Logan Airport is a giant cluster fuck of a place. So the Savannah was easier.
And you meet Danny’s daughter Natalie for the first time. She might be the HARDEST character to draw. Kids in general are hard to draw. Then Natalie’s got more squared off features when kids are usually more round. So she’s just difficult. It would have been easier if she looked more like Danny.
Then we get Danny’s exwife. I always want the Jackie to be stern but also kinda in the right. Steve/steven is kinda my go to boring guy name. I don’t know why. The rest of the scene is kinda by the numbers to show their relationship. And you get some background on Danny’s family. Danny’s mom is probably sleeping with her publicist.
page 347 – 352
Perspective is a little janky in that first panel. Danny’s car is flying.
Will’s magic shop goes through a lot of shit.
And thus the Pat back story starts and we get a little hint at his goals.
page 351 – 358
Don’t cheat at cards when playing with demons. It never got brought up, but Will does continue to cheat with his powers, only now it’s by checking lotto numbers.
The keeping someone busy while sorcerer gets ready is a thing I keep using over and over cause it is more or less a good system for this world. Spells take a long time to cast.
It’s never said out load, but Pat doesn’t like to be touched, especially by women. Suryu fucked him up pretty bad. So even though he found his wife again they were never back together.
And this part I know cause a little bit of confusion. So I’ll make it clear here. Sorcery puts a strain on someones heart. It doesn’t use up their life or anything. So Pat’s wife being in her 60s during this flash back had a heart attack for over working it with fairly standard spells. Crazy advanced spells could probably over work a perfectly healthy heart. There is a part in As We Were where Lope’s chest hurts after casting a spell that’s why. But Danny’s heart can’t be over worked cause blood bond keeps him at the status quo from the blood bond part. So anything Danny does to his heart, he’ll recover from. He just might need to take it easy for a few days. And later when Will says Pat’s descendants lived fairly long for a mage is because a mage usually means demon hunter which means dying in battle.
page 359 – 361
Pat is not good at friends.
page 362 – 366
Will don’t lock his door or have a magical barrier. He really really really really should have. I try to make it a common thing that if you know what to look for you can figure out who’s a vampire/werewolf/etc.
And here we get Pat finding out he has family.