#im working on a differnt short comic right now with a completely different spin

[spacerockband]

i absolutely love the lightbringer comic! its so beautiful and well crafted in every way and i want to commend you on such a stunning work. are you going to continue it in any way or talk more about the story/characters in the future? id love to hear more from them and their story!

ah i do really want to! part of the reason i wanted to do this idea was because i had a clear story that had an ending and finishing something felt really nice, but the more i think about it the more this feels like a set up to something larger as well?

ok i hope you dont mind me going off about some of the stuff in the story rq because i am always dying to talk about it- originally i had planned for a few more pages at least! luce and B were going to meet the "serpent in the garden" (because that wasn't luce's role in this version of the myth) and the serpent was going to be the embodiment of original sin, the first angelic being that was cast out of heaven- but under wraps- where luce's banishment was much more theatrical! They were going to confront that being and their story, but it was too big and got too plot-y for this comic, and i really wanted to focus on luce, b, and their character dynamic.

I wanted to show the kiss and Luce's top surgery scars (and other trans experiences, like both of them choosing their own names) as really clear and non-subtextual queer representation, because i feel like a lot of religious allegories relies on subtext, and i didnt want to do that at all. i think it's important to show just straight up how religion impacts queer people as soon as they do something outside of what they "should" do.

there's also just a lot of anger in this comic, and taking the words straight out of homophobe's mouths and putting them into these really authoritarian angels' dialogues, and i enjoyed doing that a lot. juxtaposing the comedy of an angel that is essentially a christmas tree-topper, made of two eyes and a mouth, with some of the most insidious rhetoric christians have leveed against queer people was. very fun to do. (is that weird?) it felt powerful.

and michael is a fun villain, i loved adding him in, and i want to explore him more a lot- i have a lot of feelings about him as the kind of "rogue" agent- where the metatron can pretend to be perfect, reflected by his unmoving and holy pose, Literally perched above everyone else (are the cliffs are a part of him? maybe.) michael has no such delusions. he knows he is a bit evil, and he knows the institution is a bit evil, and i really want to see where that goes with him.

(love how im talking about these characters as if i have no control over them anymore, which is kind of true)

not to mention most stuff about lucifer has him falling with a whole cast of angels- i want to bring in maybe more of them some day, and why they fell too.

i wanna explore both luce and b so much more!! their baby relationship, their insecurities, how luce goes from this confident silly guy (oho! this comic is fun and silly! you think at first, lucifer is just a fun and silly guy!) to a terrified kid as soon as he doesn't have to put on the show anymore. how he blames himself for B getting cast out as well, how michael heavily implies that they're going to have to take on gods army together. i had a lot of fun with this story, but... yeah i have thoughts.