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A fancomic of a scene from the A:TLA fanfiction, Bringing Out the Blue by maguena1. Go check it out at fanfiction.net: www.fanfiction.net/s/6904038/1…
"AU. The arrow injured the Blue Spirit instead of knocking him out, and Aang never found out his identity. Zuko made a Plan to find out more about the Avatar. He didn't expect so many truths to come from the lies."
This scene is from chapter 2.
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Welcome to “I suck at backgrounds” page 11.
I kid
The author of this fanfic, Maguena, once said that they felt unsure of their own work after seeing how it look in a comic… however, I think they missed that the written word and comics are too completely different things (not to mention that I'm not particularly skilled 
The Momo assault is not canon, though
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This is one of the places I was especially grinning. At the Momo assault, which would of course happen in the background time to time, and Aang so happy playing with his lemur, and Sokka with his shirt over his face, and most of all, the Zuko and Iroh flashback! Which is exactly how I pictured it happening the first time it happened (Zuko, in my mind, only realized much later about the peace and quiet part). Absolutely adore both their expressions, and Zuko's unhappy flame-snort.
And yeah, I only meant that seeing it in different format highlights to me my own flaws - like the aforementioned verbosity. But you do such an amazing job making the story look good!
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At this point I realized that I'd been going mostly literally through the comic dialogue, instead of actually letting them live it, so I tried to incorporate some of the life that I imagined was going on in the meanwhile
I did get the feeling that it took Zuko a while to realize the part about the peace and quiet - which is why Iroh is turned away from Zuko when he mumbles it 
And I know what you mean about seeing it in a different format - I also learn a lot from getting comments, since I have a tendency to become blind to big issues on the page, after so long drawing it
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And it made for great additions! If I start verbally describing everything in the background, the fic would be even three times longer, but in a comic, it just makes the images richer
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Exactly! I've read quite a few fics where the author goes off on describing backgrounds to the minutest details or spending an entire page describing a well-known character's looks. That sort of stuff is really only necessary if something about them has changed. Not to mention that looks/atmosphere can be converyed just as well a bit at a time - like "He entered the dark room ... pillars showing the way to the uplit dais..." instead of taking an entire page to suddenly describe everything, disconnected from what the character is doing or thinking.
The part with Zuko thinking back on Iroh's lesson is really well written in its simplicity, because the reader is perfectly capable of making their own conclusions on what Iroh must have thought
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I really loved this fanfic, and your comic is a great adaptation! Nice job
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I'm really glad you read the fanfic! (This is all partly promotion for one of my favorite fanfics, haha!) I have to remember to include the shenanigans of the characters that aren't speaking more often, though. I think the feral Momo attack came out rather well
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Amazing update. The alternate retelling if how Zuko learned made me giggle.
Good luck on your thesis!
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Thank you! It's soon, and I'm trying not to get too nervous ^^
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