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A Modest Destiny, (abbreviated to AMD) is a pixel art webcomic created by Sean Howard with the first strip posted on January 1, 2003. It consists of four chapters: ''Maxim Saves the World'', ''The Dreaded Vampire Lord Fluffy (AMDF)'', ''The War of Fate (AMDW)'', and ''Prophecies of the Demon King'' (AMDP). The comic is set in a fantasy world, but Howard allows his characters a modern mentality. Strips can regularly parody fantasy clichés and will on occasion break the fourth wall. ==History== The first arc, "Maxim Saves The World", follows the adventures of the titular character, Maxim, and is narrated through a series of flashbacks. At this point the strip makes liberal use of clichés and one-shot jokes, building a narratives through various sub-plots. On December 28, 2003 the first storyline ended and Howard announced a new science fiction space opera webcomic entitled ''The Starship Destiny (TSD)'', unrelated to ''AMD''. When this new strip concluded, work resumed on the second chapter of ''A Modest Destiny''. "The Dreaded Vampire Lord Fluffy" began on March 16, 2004. This arc is roughly half the length of the first and focusses on a single story rather than several smaller ones. Set in the same universe as the first chapter, it follows a vampire necromancer named Fluffy who had been tamed by society. The story also utilises a number of lesser-used characters from the first story-line and depicts the events leading up to a war between the humans and the undead, concluding in September 2004. It was during the second chapter that the comic changed format, with larger 12-panel story comics posted Monday through Friday, and short, non-canon strips featuring characters from both ''AMD'' and ''TSD'' posted on the weekends. After running another chapter of ''The Starship Destiny'', Howard took all of December 2004 off for the purposes of creating a well-planned foundation for the third ''AMD'' chapter, ''The War Of Fate (AMDW)'', which began on January 1, 2005. His aim with the third chapter was to create a more detailed and complex storyline. The comic's artistic style also changed for this chapter, Howard creating more realistic backgrounds using Adobe Photoshop instead of the pixel art style backgrounds used in previous chapters. The story is set five years after the end of ''AMDF'' in a world all but destroyed by war against the undead. An undead army, led by the mysterious Black Knight, has taken over the majority of the country, with only a small group of humans left to oppose him. These humans, led by Maxim and his friends, defend a small city called Last Hope. In July 2005, with the storyline halfway, the author took a break from the comic. On December 22, 2005, Sean Howard published the original outline for ''AMDW'', including material which never made its way into comics. On September 29, 2006, a new season of AMD started, entitled "A Modest Destiny-Prophecies of the Demon King", concluding on June 10, 2010. At the beginning of February 2011, he announced plans for a short fifth arc to bring the story to a conclusion. On February 16, 2011, AMD returned from hiatus, with updates scheduled for weekdays. As of November 26, 2013, AMD has not updated. Small arc that was announced has yet to be released or worked on. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Modest Destiny」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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