User blog comment:Vorred/Elegy - Feedback Blog/@comment-958607-20141220235012

Right. Time for the super-comment to compensate for the fact I've missed the past three (four if you count Chapter 10 being posted today) uploads.

First off, Chapter 7, Farside. I bet you've been waiting since the first panel of Uprising to name a chapter after your Toa team. :P

Once more, another real winner of a chapter. Lots of clear shots and great use of coloring throughout. It is a bit noticeable how the color temperature slowly becomes colder as the chapter progresses, which I assume was not intended, but I also think that it works well with the characters who are in-frame. At the start of Farside, it appears warmer with the body of Callan being shown and lots of shots depicting overgrown spaces and how disorderly the village has become. As the focus centers upon the Infected that inhabit the village, we begin to see tints of blue, which work well considering both Sorol and Amarii have blue armor. It matches them nicely and really brings out the best in their Mata blue color schemes. The colder tone also works nicely with the bodies of Dorvan and Chaeus, really making their deaths appear more striking and significant to the plot than Callan's. Not sure if that was something that you intended, but I certainly think it worked out a treat.

It's also very interesting to see things from the perspective of the Infected here, with Amarii actually providing that little bit of exposition to explain where Nuva stands, having lost control over his army. The fact that she still wants to help their effort even in her gruesome, decaying state is one of true heroism that really stands as a testament to the purity of the Toa spirit.

When considered with Chapter 9 (I, of course, intentionally delayed my commentary just to make this comparison), it's also interesting to see that, once again, the Toa are faced with a well-intentioned, single sentient Infected warrior and a larger fusion. Seeing how Range's group (the more moral of the two) chose to hear them out whereas Merall and Theran just hacked their way through their forgotten warriors without a second thought. It really speaks volumes about the nature of these characters and allows for parallels to be drawn between both Range and Vorred, and between Merall and Theran (I couldn't resist).

Arguably one of the highlights of the chapter was the introduction of this Ancient Battlehorn, bestowed upon Kyhae by Sorol. That thing looks a whole new kind of bizarre whilst also managing to appear realistic and aesthetically pleasing. It has a distinctly BIONICLE texture to it with all the gears and bright studs. I noted later on, in chapter 9, that the magic flute made a reappearance, eluding to its greater significance in future.

Also of note for Farside, I really admired this picture. Just the fact that you dedicated a whole extra large panel to Sorol was a nice little quirk. He fits the frame very nicely and looks great in this shot. I also really admire the deep focus on Kyhae's mask, in these panels, and the shots where Range and Vorred carry the fallen Farside Toa to the burial grounds. I think it would've been a nicer gesture to maybe have Berwak dig them some graves with his Earth powers, so the characters could finally be committed to the ground and given the closure of a burial that this undead virus has robbed them of.