keyotoyume wrote:Okay I have another question! Will we ever get to see Francesa's Parents?
Eventually, but we haven't plotted the specifics yet.
cr187 wrote:will we have more of an inside look onto like control, doctor andy, and just the political and economical inside looks on the spy network they work for?
We got an inside look at Control's family life in Volume 2, but expect a lot more on her history and what she's capable of in future volumes. As for Dr. Andy, we have some big plots in mind for him down the line, and they'll explore why he gave up his thriving self-help business to work for the government.
An inside look at Luna's Agency will come if and when Luna herself decides to look into them.
cr187 wrote:also will we see how come the count is doin all this, and, to be literal, WHY?
The Count is typical of James Bond villains in his why... he wants to take over the world.
Though the details of his plan - and some of his personal history - will be revealed in later volumes.
Lord Styphon wrote:Because in actuality, Count von Brucken is a lab mouse pretending to be a European dictator as part of an elaborate scheme to take over the world.
"The same thing we do every night, Tromperie... try to take over the world."
Lord Styphon wrote:You don't need to be a big country to have a nice network of agents; you just need to be able to afford them. Consider all of those small Italian city-states in the Renaissance.
Since Bruckenstein is unlikely to have the same commercial that states like Venice, Genoa and Florence did, I'd guess that the Count's resources are largely inherited wealth. Possibly Nazi gold, as well.
Or maybe he's running on credit.
Why is he doing it? He's a supervillain; it's what they do.
Absolutely on the last bit. He is a supervillain.
As for how he can afford it... we'll explore Bruckenstein's history in later volumes, but it used to be an ally of the US, which means a lot of its resources come from the US itself.
But it also has resources of its own. We haven't decided yet, but we're thinking gold or uranium in that one mountain top.
As to the big debate on this thread about the realism of Bruckenstein...
Luna's context is very James-Bond-esque, so we haven't had to plot out the political realities as much as if it were a serious spy piece.
But at the same time, we try to make it fit enough that readers don't find it all too silly.
Bruckenstein would be 'kissed up to' because it served as a buffer against Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Plus, it had resources we could use.
That meant we armed it, gave it the best air and ground defense such a small country could muster and bought a lot from it, giving it decent wealth and technology.
Then the Cold War ended, and we realized we'd given a lot of support to a dictator.
Von Brucken's defenses are a bit of modern tech and a bit of James-Bond-tech. So our military would incur major losses going after it.
The only way to take it out quickly would be with a nuke, and the US would never nuke a mountaintop in Europe.
And who knows, maybe Von Brucken has a doomsday failsafe? Invade my country and I destroy the resources you're coming after. Or somesuch.
cr187 wrote:Though in a way, i think they made the count an incompetent fool as an opening for someone even more (well a two year old is even more) dangerous. I think for some of the series the count will be the bad guy, and then he will start to help luna and the gang because someone less incompetent comes along and starts creating havic (sp?)
Well, Von Brucken was never designed to be incompetent as an adversary.
He's buffoonish as a person, that's true. But his people get things done well enough. Ask poor, kidnapped Principal Ohlinger how much she wishes they were incompetent.
Lord Styphon wrote:The fact of the matter is that new, more powerful villains popping out of the woodwork is a horrible plot device. It's a trap that long-running series fall into because they need something to keep the series going when the old enemies have done their thing and been defeated and the heroes are stronger after beating all of them. Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z are good examples of this.
AAL is a series that covers a specific period of time, Luna's sophmore, junior and senior years in high school. Project Scion forms the Count's ongoing plan for world domination, which Luna works to stop while dealing with all sorts of growing pains during this time. The way it's set up, there's little room for a new villain to materialize out of thin air, and since Project Scion would likely still be ongoing, the Count would have little reason to work with the wasp that Luna is. Especially since his own plans would still be in progress, and Luna isn't likely to pass up a chance to stop them if given one.
And the fact that any new baddie really would have to come out of nowhere. The focus has been on von Brucken and his plans as the antagonist and prime factor in the overall plot. Introducing a new one at all, but especially with von Brucken still at large, would be a blunder. It would be filling a need that simply doesn't exist.
We intend to have threats and enemies for individual volumes that are not directly Von Brucken related.
But we do not intend to replace Von Brucken as the major threat. He's our badguy, and Project Scion is his scheme, which will be the basis of the entire series.
The series starts when Luna finds out about it, and ends when the threat is 100% defeated.
Lord Styphon wrote:How is he doing it? I know exactly how his plan is supposed to work. It's brilliant, really. And says something about Luna and Co. that they can't fit it together themselves (even if they don't have a piece of the puzzle that we do).
Well, Luna and company don't have access to all the scenes we do. We don't intend for Von Brucken's plot to be a major mystery... it will be revealed to the reader way before it's revealed to Luna and Control.
But we've seen the speculation here and won't say one way or another except to say that some of the guesses are very logical and some are very close to the truth.
As I said, all will be revealed to the readers long before it's revealed to Luna. And at that point, some of you may feel very smart.
Twilight Bandit wrote:Can you guys give us just a little sneek peek on Vol.3?
A visual sneak peek? That's up to Seven Seas.
A teaser on the plot?
Let's see...
We see Luna as a 6 year old.
Luna and Francesca have a major falling out.
Jonah beats the crap out of someone.
Oliver's life gets deeply complicated because of Luna.
Dr. Andy and Control get a bit closer.
Mr. Dreyfus tries to find Principal Ohlinger and gets pretty close to Luna's secrets as a result.
We see Control in action.
A major character dies.
That enough of a teaser?
