Merlin has been prophesying his death since July 2004, and at least once has noted off-frame that in most retellings it comes much earlier in the order of events. If this was a "sudden, un-foreshadowed death" then I must have achieved my goal of talking it up for a couple of years and then trying to allow the audience to forget about it for a couple of years.
But originally, before I conceived the possibility and desirability of taking a sabbatical, I planned for Merlin to last in all arcs till Nimue was fourteen (of age in the fairy tale and space arcs) - to lead off with this strip and go directly to the scripted strips for Merlin's loss in the baseline, space and western arcs. There'd've been no more "foreshadowing" than there has been this way, because this is the effect I was going for. If only to see whether I could pull it off; if only to see whether I'm experiencing any success in bringing the characters to the world's day-to-day life (or at least the lives of such of the world as comprises my readership) as Captain Kirk, Little Nell and Snoopy have been brought.
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Merlin has been prophesying his death since July 2004, and at least once has noted off-frame that in most retellings it comes much earlier in the order of events. If this was a "sudden, un-foreshadowed death" then I must have achieved my goal of talking it up for a couple of years and then trying to allow the audience to forget about it for a couple of years.
But originally, before I conceived the possibility and desirability of taking a sabbatical, I planned for Merlin to last in all arcs till Nimue was fourteen (of age in the fairy tale and space arcs) - to lead off with this strip and go directly to the scripted strips for Merlin's loss in the baseline, space and western arcs. There'd've been no more "foreshadowing" than there has been this way, because this is the effect I was going for. If only to see whether I could pull it off; if only to see whether I'm experiencing any success in bringing the characters to the world's day-to-day life (or at least the lives of such of the world as comprises my readership) as Captain Kirk, Little Nell and Snoopy have been brought.