Ohh, very interesting.

Thanks. :D

Ah, the joys of major edits.
The process between inspiration and development always interests me.

Yeah, I'm still surprised at how much has changed when I think back on it. With the comic taking longer to do then the text stories did we've had to remove so much. It should make things a little tighter, though.

I was thinking "who is that vampire rabbit"? Well, you could do a spin off comic from Hunter. That would be a good idea.

Could one day. I've got a few other spin off ideas in the works. We took the basic idea of the first part of the vampire storyline and turned it into another arc about a musician and Leanan Sídhe - http://www.maryjones.us/jce/leanansidhe.html

That is interesting, never heard of this creature.

I'd be lost without Matt. He knows so much about the fey. I can't keep track of them all. :D

What about the difference between seleighe and unseleighe fey?

http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00451.html

First introduced to me in this comic, not exactly sure about how their rules work.

They're the Summer and Winter Courts. The members of the Summer Court tend to look pretty (when most people think of faries, they're thinking of things in the Summer Court). The Winter Court members tend to look darker and more nightmarish. Truth is, neither Court is better or worse than the other. They both prey on mortals and use them for their amusement. Winter is just a bit more honest about it. They prefer to take. Summer likes to use trickery to get what they want.

I don't remember all the rules, but a few I do know are...
...don't accept gifts from the fey. This puts you in their debt and you'll never get out.
...try not to put a fey in your debt. They don't like it.
...if asked the same question three times, they must answer it.
...they can not outright lie to you, but they will twist the truth.
...cold iron hurts them.

They follow their rules (usually) but, like the comic said, they're very good at finding loopholes and exploiting them.

alright....wait a sec

I read the comic, I thought cold iron actually does not hurt them. Instead, it was mistranslated "cold" meaning "north" north star, not necessarily just iron, but lodestone, the magnets always pointing north.(Based on the comic link later on in that story, lol.)

Though I remember hearing all the other rules, lol.
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Yeah, that's the thing... each version of the fey is a little different. I'm not sure why there's so much variety in the stories, probably because for the longest times these stories weren't written down, they were passed along orally and changed with each telling. It gets confusing very easily. :d

Matt and I went with the cold iron and the tithe versions of the stories because they're the ones we're most familiar with. My introduction to the fey was in a comic called The Books of Magic and its spin-off The Books of Faerie. I'm not sure what Matt's introduction was.

Ah, makes sense. Will check those out! /\./\

Thank you!

Mmm, there was a written story about the vampire, I believe? I do recall the plot line behind the whole thing (whether it was written or the comic eludes me at the point) and it was excellent - in fact, it gave me nightmares for few days!

Ahh, the long-gone days of (furry) innocence..

Thanks. It was written and done as a comic in 2003-2004 (when I was doing the sketchy comics). Matt's really good at writing creepy horror type stories. :D

I have to admit it's kind of interesting to see how the comic developed into the form it has today. Thanks for sharing these little glimpses into the past; I hope they're not too traumatic to dredge out of the archives. :)

Not painful to me, but I'm not sure about everyone else. *laughs*

Nice one.

I like it.

Thanks. :D

You're welcome.