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That was years ago. It's great that you still remember it.
I had a lot of fun with Thunder, the talking horse. I had at least one reader send me an email, begging me to make Thunder a regular part of the cast. It was tempting, but I decided not to, for some very practical reasons. First, he was hard to draw. Second, horses are so big that if Thunder was appearing regularly in the strip, there would be no room in the panels for the other characters unless they were drawn very small, which in my view made them look less appealing. Third, I already had a certain amount of chemistry working between the three main characters, and I didn't see Thunder fitting in very well; Ulf and Kira are always jousting verbally with each other, Toby is trying to keep the team functioning, all three are pushing their own agendas, and where does a sarcastic talking horse fit in to all that? He would have been like the fourth wheel on a tricycle, a part with no real function.
So I put Thunder out to pasture. Too bad. He was a fun character. Maybe he trotted off to some other webcomic, where he's making life miserable for somebody else.
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