A funny thing happened to me when I first read some of the "20 Facts About..." pages. I'll bet at least half of the Deviant Dead cast have them by now. Before Hassan, Marina and Charlie hopped onto that bandwagon, I read over a few, and I was overcome with a sensation not unlike homesickness. A yearning into the past. I missed someone, or something, but I couldn't figure out who or what it was. And it's too soon for it to be my annual "inconceivably bummed out during the holidays" shlep. Curious...

Before I went to sleep, I attempted to draw Osaka from Azumanga Daioh. She was wearing a sort of head-band with a star ornament hanging from it...

I've just realized now that we are fast approaching the one-year anniversary of the first time I saw my favourite show. Perhaps that is the source of my wistfulness. I will have an article about that up later on. But how did reading 20 facts about characters in a zombie survival comic contest stir such reminiscence? The subject material couldn't be farther apart.

Perhaps, getting to know the survivors in DD helped them infiltrate that same place where I cherish Chiyo and Osaka, Ed and Alfonse Elric, Yolei and Beelzemon and all of the great fictional characters. That place where fiction matters more than what's real.

You can find the 20 Facts list in the Author's Comments here: [link]

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~A.H.