My answer has pictures. There's a story behind my comic! Aren't I special!?
When I first started writing Templars in 2012 (that picture is from then) it was a very different beast. It was much more of a comedy-fantasy in the same vein as Discworld (but obviously not as good).
There was a story in there with some level of seriousness in it, it was much more brutal (in the opening chapter an entire town is destroyed) and it was much more concerned with the workings of the world it was set in, with lengthy scenes with bureaucrats arguing about wizards etc.
It was also not drawn by me - I was working with my at-the-time girlfriend. I would sketch out a version of the page and she'd work on it:
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However, all things move towards their end, and when I started to feel that her and I were moving towards our end, I started drawing it myself. When we reached that destination (in Starbucks) I threw everything I'd done out of the window (not literally, but I did shift+delete a lot).
First I rewrote the whole thing in a more sincere style with a more measured, pared down story without explosions. At the time I was reading a lot of sad books and listening to a lot of sad music, (which certainly makes it into the opening pages). The fact that I take forever to draw the bloody thing means that by now, chapter 3, I'm doing less sad stuff because I find that part of me harder to draw from - which is a shame because everyone tells me that's the best bit!