Some people are purists and don't want anything Cryptic/Paragon didn't make, others just hate Leandro. There's a market for it!
Yeah. That's people.
i24. Having that is ok. It's just a starting point. But if people are waiting for NC to employ Paragon Studio to give us issue 25? They're going to be in for an even longer wait.
i25 is the story of SCORE. Preserving the legacy and making the improvements that they did.
Leandro's a nice, decent guy who's done his best to preserve 'the gold ring' legacy but that 'burden' can be heavy on the shoulders. And it seems fate has intervened...several times this week.
The sooner the ring is shattered and scattered to the four corners of our world?
The better. And this recent 'storm in a tea cup' just under-SCORES that.
Discretion, yes...but be swift about the goal and share the burden to make it so.
issue 25. Unbroken shard is a metaphor for the community.
There was 'no official' 24 if we want to be picky. It was left unfinished (bugs et al.) It's a 'fine' unrelease. But even it wasn't released as in 'official.'
Ergo. issue 25. It belongs to the community. This is OUR story. The story of SCORE's fight to preserve. The dev's battle to 'leak' or rather, PRESERVE IT from an unsympathetic corporation. The unholy war to keep it alive. The battle to release ICON, PARAGON CHAT and 'whatever' they had planned (a reverse engineered server?) next.
If we want issues 25-27 featuring Battalion and the Moon Base? We're going to have to create it ourselves.
iSSue 24 which just be a stable release that hopefully we can ALL enjoy. Into the hands of the many. Issue 25 'Unbroken Shard' is ours to write. SCORE started that process.
Azrael.