S.E. Fleenor, Bitches on Comics:
“Grog isn’t really a good guy–and he’s aware of this! But, he is remarkably and surprisingly compassionate at one point in the comic. Refusing to fight an opponent for the honor of being king, Grog instead invites the man to share his story, which Grog records. In the process, Grog frees his opponent of his confinement to the role of king. Why did you choose to ground a hilarious satire with a story about self-rediscovery?
We loved this question! Because for us, this could be the most important thing within the comic and we’re very happy that you noticed it. Grog, let’s face, is an absolute little bitch, but he’s not a villain. He’s a rascal with a kind side, but for the moment we need to talk about this in a more ambiguous way because in the near future we’ll be discovering things about his past that will expand his personality, and we don’t want people to think that he looks bad but at the end of the day is a good amphibian, because that is not the truth. He is a rapscallion…but just with..some…nuances?
In this first story there’s a little trap that everyone can interpret their own way. Everything happening within the story lead us to understand that, indeed, Grog has been kind with the bull and Nerea, but there’s specific sus moments that could lead us to interpret other things, for example: when Grog makes fun of the elder lady during the trance, or when he winks to Biscuit, or even when Grog places the Taurus book in his library and says: “one step closer”. All of that could point that Grog has been playing with us, and that his true purpose was to get the book since the beginning, or at least in some moment he realized that he could obtain it and decided to abandon the idea of catching the Perseids somehow along the way. I mean, we don’t even know, we also don’t know what truly happened there. Grog has enough power to trick the other characters, the readers and even the authors of the book.
We want to break a lance for him and say that his kindness didn’t look fake.”
Read the full interview on Bitches on Comic‘s website here!
