Dragon Age: Dark Fortress (Comic)

If it makes you feel better, that’s only a couple weeks before EA Play in early June where they’ll most likely have some DA4 news or a trailer.

Deconstructing Comics #690: “Dragon Age: Dark Fortress” And “Haha”
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Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, following up on their appearance in episode 653, are back on the show to discuss their upcoming miniseries Dragon Age: Dark Fortress. How does the Dragon Age fan base compare with other ardent fan bases? How is Christina and Nunzio’s relationship with Dragon Age artist Fernando Heinz Furukawa? They discuss this and more with Emmet.

I found it interesting. The bit devoted to Dark Fortress is the first 52 mins. Various aspects are discussed. There is a bit about Vaea and Ser Aaron, quite a bit about Fenris and a lot about Autumn. Incidentally I was right that the scene between Fenris and Hawke's mabari is seen by Nuncio to show even then that Fenris loves dogs but in DA2 he finds it harder to express this emotion openly, whereas by Blue Wraith he can.

Also the interviewer asked about the line in Blue Wraith when Francesca's father says to her that the wrong child died and whether they were thinking about a certain movie with those lines (can't remember its name). They said no and in fact if anything they based the relationship of the Father/Florian/Francesca on that of Denethor/Boromir/Faramir from LoTR. If you are not familiar with this, Denethor always favours and values his older child, Boromir over Faramir, although, as demonstrated in the book in particular, Faramir is the superior. However, to my mind that is as far as the comparison goes because, again in the book, Denethor values Faramir in the end and the thought of losing him as well is what finally breaks his mind, whereas Francesca was forced to kill her own father to defend her friends so he never acknowledged her worth. I never thought they did Denethor justice in the film and made him a lot worse than Tolkien wrote him.

Anyway I would give it a listen as there are a lot of interesting insights into the development of characters and the relationship of the writers with the illustrator.

Thanks.
I’ll listen to it later, but didn’t have time right now so was curious.

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Blue Wraith’s War In DRAGON AGE: DARK FORTRESS #1 (Spoiler-Free Review)
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QuizzyBunny hardest hit.

Fuck you scared me, I thought It would say 

Jesus, bunnies are sensitive creatures y'know!

But lol. 

Damn, the Qunari are just rolling all over Tevinter, aren't they?

Nenealeus seems to be seriously deluding himself.
However powerful the Red Lyrium will make Shirallas, one warrior alone can't possibly be enough to defeat the Qunari, let alone conquer all Thedas.

The Qunari are my big issue with the comics, though I don’t blame the comics for this. In the past it was shown that the Qunari don’t mindlessly kill everyone but instead try to convert them, yet now they slaughter everyone even civilians, with the kid being the first time they didn’t.
Doesn’t bode well for DA4, where instead of two morally grey factions it seems the idea is to make the Qun cartoon villains just to make working with slave owning, child sacrificing Tevinter seem not bad.

Well, that could be a symptom of the apparent rift between the Antaam and the priesthood. The priesthood is supposed to handle the conversion of a conquered population, while the Antaam does the conquering. With the priesthood absent, they’re operating without direction in that quarter it would seem.