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”I'd recognize that face anywhere!”
| This strip is a bit of a cameo fest – the first of many, just so
you know. The guard is visually based on Judge Dredd and the line-up
consists of characters from old Swedish games and gaming fanzines. Yeah,
more internal humor. |
| • | | Pegged barbarian:
Trygg-Torkel (”Safe Torkel”), the hero of a humorous and rather odd 1980s
gamebook that's a bit of a classic in Swedish gaming circles. There's a 2012
sequel where Bernard makes a brief appearance. |
| • | Fox girl: Tuva, the mascot for Krister Sundelin's
small press company Foxtail Publishing. Not usually the floor-crawling type, she
is filling in here for a fair damsel from the cover of Trygg-Torkel's book.
Foxtail was distributing a reprint of it at the time. |
| • | Legless runt: Håkan Aldengran's Dnegel was the mascot
for a fanzine by the same name and had his own comic in it. He does look pretty
similar to Derek the Troll from Warlock magazine, though unlike him
Dnegel is a genuinely good guy. |
| • | Chainmail dude: Jesper Almén's Vidrig Vandraren (”Vile
the Wanderer”) had his comic in the fanzine Rubicon, precursor to the
magazine that Bernard was originally created for. It was partially because of
Vidrig that I gave them a submission with a sordid barbarian. |
Your guess is as good as mine.
Fenix no. 1, 2006
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