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I, Fed god emperor of frustration, will answer any question not spoiler about the comic. and I'll write down a few ones that some people have asked me...but, If someone have a question that seems interesting, don't doubt asking me.


F.A.Q.


why Adres is Called Adres? it doesn't seem like a really original name. ( addres??)

well, like i have said, I created Adres at the moment of starting the comic, so, I really doesn't think of give him a name until the story force me to do it...and I wanted for him an odd name, SO, at highschool one day with some of my classmates we changed our names for words that sound similar, so my name is "Andres" and I was "Addres" (english word you know), so for the comic, I remember that and take a "d" and there you got "Adres" in fact, the name is like that, because I thought that Adres put himself that name or something like that.

How Adres has long hair, and a ponytail??

Well, Adres is a creature designed based on a Cat DNA, but almost fully re-designed with segments of human DNA, so, at some point, the DNA instructions for head hair are human, that explain why he has "hair", and not only fur in his head.
and why the ponytail? well, when I drawed Adres, I had a ponytail myself and my hair was the same leng of Adres hair, so I kinda wanted him with my hair style AHHA ,and for justify that, Some people, at some point of adres creation, put his hair in a ponytail because that way the hair doesn't interrupt or be an annoyance in operations, I think that was some female scientist or personnel that today it's not in project prime anymore, but her legacy continues XD..


Why Laura has blue hair?

well, I tend to be formal with hair or fur colors, but Laura is an exception, the real explanation is that I asked my girlfriend what color would be nice for Laura, cos I was between white, gray or brown...but my girlfriend say me "skyblue" sooo I think and say "why not" and Laura got his color... the reason for what I agree is this:

Laura was to genetically designed by someone for an unknow reason (will be revealed at some point of the history) and the person who secretly design her, give her "skyblue" fur, you know, just mixing some DNA codifications for pigments and such, why? I can't say, maybe for fun or taste in colors xD

Hey, why the comic prologue and begin seems to me like a game or something...??

the reason for that was that I started derideal when finished Silent hill 2 again, so I admit that I wanted for my prologue some effect of weird history and not connections in the plot, like random scenes that apparently follow a line until the end of the history, like a dream, in fact, almost all the prologue scenes and such have a meaning for me, and the story itself... it you think about it, some things of Adres dream have come true....the question is "Adres dream will come true at full? or all is coincidence?"


How you do the comic??

at first, scanner and pencil

later, only with my cheap genius tablet and photoshop

painted with cell shade and layers, not much production or special tratment, I really doesn't even ink the drawings, I just made it and paint it...it's derideal style xD

Something inspired you to start derideal?

I can say that mostly the genial storyline of Silent hill 2, but Derideal story has nothing to do with silent hill 2 or it's even close to be similar...

other thing that is an inspiration for me is the sci-fi book "DUNE" of "Frank Herbert" a magnificent series of 6 books, works of a master.

and I must say, that derideal was somewhat inspired in a RPG ruleset I was making with my brother, so the world, techology, skills and fight scenes, are based on that RPG ruleset mini book we wrote. (so, Infiltrator is just a roleplaying class of that game)

Why does your english suck?

cos I speak spanish, and the english I know if because I played RPG games, liked movies, I had english at highschool and english is kinda easy to learn by osmosis.

What's the Doctor C. Wally first name???

Uff, Noone knows for sure, not even I know what name hides behind the "C."

Why the W.A.L.L.Y. robot looks so familiar?

cos W.a.l.l.y with legs design, looks a lot like "ED-209" robot from robocop (one of my favorites movies since I was child) so it's natural that I think that ED-209 style robots are the l337!
BUT, W.AL.L.Y maybe looks similar in the front view, but really is far different in design. if you want see it or you miss the W.a.l.l.y design, you can found it here: DEVIANT ART W.A.L.L.Y DRAWING

(w.a.l.l.y - 80 = Warfare advanced light levitation year - 80)



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- Why cats??
I like cats.

- why there'r a lot of "80" in the comic?

80 is a myth, that flow from various generations, is a number with unthinked mystic meaning, and if you pay atention, you'll start to see that "80" is everywere. and 80 is the only true answer.

- what means "project prime"?

really, it has no meaning, just a name I came up, but the "prime" part has relation cos I wanted something similar to "principal" or "first", related to the importance to the project.

- What means "Derideal" ??

when I created the comic for the prologue name, I doesn't thinked of any..but I wanted a tittle that was derived from ideal; So I simply join the two words...

DER (derivado in spanish) de IDEAL

- Do you have MSN/ GTALK/SKYPE, or something?
I just use MSN messenger. if you want it, ask me personaly (mail? forum? PM)

-you'll renew the first pages of the comic?
yes, some day...and that will occur only for special edition of the comic for "Wowio" and maybe for a printed one by LULU.
- there's always snow in the comic?
it's winter. and I like winter, maybe all the comic will be winter.

How did you design the derideal logo?

using photoshop XD.

well; the meaning of the logo, is related to my old blog tittle; "sands of instants" or something like that. it has to be somewhat with a generic title really, but I always related that with derideal, because the comic evolve in time by itself, at some point, character develops their own personality, and has their own ideals and etc; ideals are hard to mantain, they can be destroyed, or evolved, with the past of time; and that's what happened with me, and also to derideal; the original idea was far different than the current.

Edit; also, it was really a coincidence that the two parts that forms the hourglass with the "i" between looks like Der I Deal

LOL

And why is there an ";" after derideal?

Why not? I just like it, because it's feels like derideal is something finite.. but it isn't the last word you'll heard of it when the comic story finish.
it's like "derideal;'' you spect that something, a phrase, number, story tittle, will follow that title; like the name of an episode.

Why is the resistance (If I can call them that) trying to escape the city? Isn't there a road or a train or secret tunnel? Not even a home built glider??


The resistance or rebels factions inside the city have different purposes; there isn't a good way to escape the city because the Consortium secret city it's very isolated, airspace it's heavily guarded, also it's impossible to communicate something outside the city thanks to the magnetosphere devices. plus escaping by the forest isn't very safe, the area has several patrols, but mostly turrets and land mines

people who happened to "live" on the secret city are trapped in there, because the consortium doesn't want them to go, to conserve the secret of which kind of stuff it's happening in there. of course there are a lot of consortium functionaries around, but there is people who lived on the area before the Consortium took over and built their city on top of it; also lots of mercenaries or soldiers from old war factions were also trapped in there (like Jaime and his Sister for example).
it's a difficult situation since most mercenaries and resistance groups aren't organized as a big one, they're just singular groups with different agendas, that sometimes help the other groups depending of their interests.


one interesting thing it's that the consortium city it's so isolated that most people doesn't know what's happening outside on the real world, and that's why you heard from the Consortium everyday, they run the city almost with 100% of authority, not like in the rest of the world where all the city are controlled by the Control and survival function.

well, this kind of background isn't really necessary to understand the story, so I haven't developed it much, it's just for background purposes.