User blog:Vauseman/Dead Frontier Issue 100 Blog Thing



Yep, so this is it. Dead Frontier Issue 100 has been released. This be a crazy milestone, and I wasn’t even planning to write 100 issues when I started, but I’m really happy I got here because some of y’all fools read my story :) Shout out to my number one confidant, Warfare, and all you guys that leave comments; they really do mean a lot, even if the issue sucks and you tell me :D

Issue 100
'Billie dead? '

Just kidding. :) The main event for Issue 100 had been planned for volumes and volumes before its release: Billie’s death. She’s arguably one of the most popular characters in the story, and she even has the second longest lifespan, behind Cole only. I couldn’t think of a better person to go out besides her. She told her story, she did her thang, she had a profound impact on the story and her character had run its course.

The closer I got to 100, the more I started thinking in detail about what would actually go down. The initial plan was for Roxie to kill her, but since the issue was pretty obvious in the first place I thought I’d do something at least a little unexpected and have it be Walter. And, I consider Walter the secondary antagonist besides Roxie, and having him do something as big as killing Billie motherfucking Starr would be pretty cool.

My mindset writing it was to make it obvious. Billie is going to die. Once Roxie mentions the pretty blonde girl to Cole you know she’s dead by the end of the issue. That was my intent. I wasn’t going for a nasty, gory, shock-worthy death (a la TWD Issue 100). Cole and Billie’s relationship is one of the most, if not the most, developed and complicated in the entire story. The good-friends-who-had-each-others-backs-and-kissed-one-time-then-totally-forgot-about-it-and-went-back-to-being-good-friends friends. The ones who lost their significant others on the same day. And this entire issue was pretty much a big culmination of their relationship throughout the story. It wasn’t as much about her death (meaning the specifics of how she died) but more of these two characters going through so much from the beginning, and then having it all come to an abrupt end. Just like that. Cole killing her zombified self was just the icing on the fucked-up cake.

And say what you want about Billie, whether you loved her, hated her, or just thought she was okay, you can’t deny the impact she’s had on DF, and it wouldn’t be the same if she wasn’t there. Oh, and shout out to Billie’s creator, Headaches. Imagine if Headaches had never made that audition....

Y'ALL BE DEAD
There are many characters that I have had a great joy in writing, or have impacted the story in, what I believe to be, a significant way. But now they ded. And here they are, in no particular order:
 * Micah Jones
 * Hannah Fleetwood
 * Finn Kelly
 * Devon Welsh
 * Hiro Kamura
 * Alec
 * Dwight Miller
 * Gord Ramos
 * Luke Evans
 * Marsh
 * Robbie Rhodes
 * Hector Petit
 * omfg Joe Fitz
 * And, of course, Billie Starr

Other Plans
When I started DF I didn’t plan out past like...Issue 40. So a lot of stuff changed. The Super 8 pretty much went as I wanted. The only thing that really changed in the Airport arc was that Robbie wasn’t even going to exist, but I had an idea for his character write in the middle of writing it so I added him in.

Now the biggest change was that the entire Hyatt arc wasn’t going to exist. A while ago, during my second character audition blog, Mr Volcy gave me this villain who was like an evil scientist, and he was going to be the main villain during issues 50-80 or something. The entire setting would have been a college university, it would be revealed that he was a cannibal or something I don’t even remember, and it was all completely different. Really glad I went the way I did now, though.

Also, if I had went the way I planned a few volumes ago the story would be coming to an end soon. Hyatt would be our last location, and we’d be done. But I’ve decided to continue the story for another 44 issues and have commissioned a sequel/spin-off...so that changed.

So, a few words, to anyone that has read even one issue of mah story:

