Reclaimer – A Halo 3 Comic

lilskii left a comment on yesterday’s comic that I was going to respond to in the course of the discussion thread, but my response ended up being kind of long, so I decided to go ahead and make it into its own entry, which you can find below:

I honestly don’t know how long this Reclaimer story arc will take to tell. I know exactly where I’m headed, where it’s going to end up, and most of the things that have to take place in order for us to get there, but I don’t know how long it will take to tell all that. I’m really not in any huge hurry, and I’d rather tell a quality story than a rushed one.

Over the course of all this, we’ll touch base with Ferial, Viper, and other characters along the way – kind of checking in to see what’s happening in other places.

Now, I deliberately don’t comment much on other people’s theories. I enjoy watching you all postulate on events, and I don’t really want to influence that much (or risk giving anything away before I’m ready to reveal it in the due course of the story). I will say that I have never altered any aspect of the story in response to a reader comment, whether it be to align with a particular theory or veer away from another. As I said above, I know where the story is going, so I don’t find myself wavering in the direction it goes.

I have made the occasional change or adjustment to ramp up the quality of my storytelling based on reader feedback, however, and for that I’m grateful to all of you for nitpicking every little thing. I believe it’s made me a better writer and storyteller.