My inspiration for The Saga of Samuel is not today’s modern comic books but the old serial comic strips of days gone by. Like the previously mentioned Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond another big inspiration is Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant. While the strip has had many artists over it’s 70 plus years of existance, Hal Foster, the creator of the strip, was also it’s best artist. Not much comes up with a Google search but the page below is example of the skill Foster had.
Well I spent a bit of time trying to come up with a witty name for the blog here at The Saga. Wanting it to both relate to the character of Samuel and random writings I played around with things like “The Samuel Chronicles” or “The Saga Scroll”. I even briefly entertained just calling it “The Blog of Samuel”. After plugging in a variety of words into an online thesaurus and/or dictionary I came upon the words “passing sentence” and I knew I had my name. It works like this see..Samuel was a Judge of Ancient Israel and while it’s not quite the same as a modern court of law judge it wasn’t all that different either so I’m sure sentences were passed. That’s the first meaning of the name, then you have the blog which, really, is just a bunch of sentences someone reads in passing. So..huuzzah! When I recovered from the absolute brillance of the name, I patted myself on the back and whipped up a logo for it. Works for me.
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