A note about Skadi’s origin
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 by katie
No doubt, some of our observant readers will notice that our Skadi and Diseasoid origin stories contradict some of our older comics (three, at least). Hopefully this won’t bother too many people! While keeping continuity is important, it’s unavoidable for characters to develop more and more as we keep making comics, despite the ideas we may have had for them in the beginning.
But…for the hardcore types who demand continuity, here are some “justifications”:
- In “The Ballad of Skadi Part 1″, where Skadi leaves her village happily as an adult…that’s just an idealization from her point of view…why dwell on sad things of the past?
- In “On Bushbeasts”, where Skadi is seen buying Diseasoid from the slavetrade…well, they’d already met…he was, uh, kidnapped by traders, and Skadi was merely taking him back. Judging by Diseasoid’s scared expression, he was obviously trying to lay low and blend in with the other miserable half-dead slaves to avoid being Skadi’s “friend” again.
- And in “Food #4″, where Skadi crosses “bushbeasts” off her “meat to eat” list, well we all know she isn’t all that bright of a girl. That list probably has a lot of repeats and mistakes.






