User blog comment:Vauseman/Dead Frontier is over af/@comment-1107423-20131218024043/@comment-26217707-20131219230324

1.) For big massacres like those, I had character deaths planned out from the beginning. I've had a few instances where I killed characters pretty impulsively, but it happened rarely. With the airport, Hyatt, all the characters that had perished had been decided for before hand, from what I can remember.

2.) Cole's fate was very round and round. At first, he lived until the end and made it to LA. Then, he still would have died but lived a little longer, just so it could be revealed to him that Lucy was knocked up (thought this would have made his death too predictable so I scrapped it), but alas I chose him to die at what I think was the best time, for the story's sake.

3.) It's really a big blur as to when I decided I needed to come up with a definite ending. I'd say around issue 80s is when I came up with the whole plane crash idea,and after that is when I started building on it. I actively tried to come up with in ending, because being so far in I didn't want to write without a set destination. Too risky.

4.) Several, actually. Cole, Jake, Lucy, Adam, and Billie--all arcs I ended up looking back on and decide they all had effective and appropriate ends. Another, less major one, is Alec's. His whole revenge focus and then his nasty end...ouch, but I really liked what I did with him, as a supporting character. He's one of my stronger supports I'd say.

5.) Fan reaction has definitely tempted me to go in a different direction, but not as drastic as live or die. I really try to avoid letting reader input effect major decisions with characters and try to stick to my gut as often as I can. I will admit though that it has effected character page-time and other things like that---but not really deaths.

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