Two pages today! There's a tiny time skip in the middle of the first page - I figured we'd jump straight to the trapped room.
Toma and Quigley's jealousy of the toaster is immediate and evident.
Do you guys mind if I take next week off for Christmas? I figure most people will be too busy with the holiday to care much about a webcomic...
2020-12-18 05:17:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Frankly the only person on this page I'd let babysit any kid of mine would be Pantoffel.
Duane and Toma want to be friends so badly, subconsciously. Their souls cry out for each other. Quigley I'm less sure about.
2020-12-16 04:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking a bath in magical desiccant sounds like Duane's idea of a wild Saturday night, in fact.
Just realised I misspelled that, too. Gonna go edit the web version real quick. Zoom! >_>
I had to practise such self-control here with the dialog. I could have easily let these guys chat, bicker, gossip, and insult each other for ten pages. And you probably would have enjoyed it! But I gotta keep the story moving :)
I really dig Toma and Quigley seeing each other again, and that little smile of honest relief from Mathis. It's...
Little bit to be read into this.
Elka scores the bricks-to-the-head shot which would have disabled if not killed a living person.
She also throws the bricks in a manner that we've seen Duane do before (this is one of his favourite moves as he advocates for expertly done basic techniques) which immediately endears her to him and is pr...
2020-12-09 04:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This addition should improve the situation and everyone's mood, yep!
2020-12-07 04:53:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, doesn't Duane Adelier think he's tied this whole conspiracy up in a tidy little package. I'm sure he's got it all just right. Now to find the heart of this place and mete out justice.
2020-12-04 04:55:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I for one would love to go spelunking among the petrified bowels of dead titans. Dumb Kasslynians are always using them for nefarious purposes though, they are the worst.
This page has lots of little details that will be relevant as we press on but I like the ferry the best.
A concrete way forward is good for settling the nerves. Duane's ready to figure all this out. And Quigley's up for anything that gets them the f*uck outta this shrine.
2020-11-25 05:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post
You couldn't give him that, Quigley? You know what he really meant. I hope you get eaten by a galit.
2020-11-23 04:51:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Quigley is very eloquent on this page.
I wish I'd zoomed that final panel out with Masek more, or made the penultimate panel a wideshot to show Duane walking towards the flung jawbone. Everyone's a little nebulously placed at the end. Oh, crap, actually, I could show the jawbone distantly on the floor in the penultimate panel. Why didn't I...
2020-11-20 04:54:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Two pages today! Quigley just calling Duane out on his bullshit. It's satisfying to see, even if the messenger isn't exactly a paragon of personal honesty either.
Duane's terrible line about the children dying shifts immediately - to my ear - into propaganda speech. It's a rote line and he's repeating it. Do you think he actually believes ...
2020-11-18 04:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Duane, don't play with your food.
I'm curious if anyone can work out mechanically what's going on. Yeah, Quigley's dancing around an intangible double of himself while Duane tangles him in his cloak, but what'd Duane make the double out of? Look very closely at the double. What was Duane doing two pages ago?
Answer: The double IS a d...
2020-11-16 04:57:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Quigley is a super bastard, I don't defend him easily, but you gotta admit him going after Duane - who he KNOWS is dangerous - instead of throwing up his hands and just bouncing outta this shrine is pretty laudable. If nothing else the man realises when he owes a debt, and pays it.
2020-11-13 04:51:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Duane's just going to hang on to that amulet from now on, and give it a good study when he feels a little less like setting himself on fire. And when Quigley isn't right on his heels ready to help!
2020-11-11 04:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Masek - you may recall - chased the lizard boys away from a big ol' secret door they'd found earlier. He may have made up his mind right here on just what to do with that secret door. Maybe this relationship isn't worth salvaging if Mistress Lori would so quickly damn every two-toe in the shrine for the actions of a few.
This is one of tho...
2020-11-09 04:56:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Everyone is so scared and upset now they're even treating Ruffles badly. That's when you truly know the end of the world is coming.
2020-11-06 04:47:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Pull it together, Sette. Don't let Jivi of all people see you like this D:
2020-11-04 04:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Duane seemed to leave a lot of room for personal interpretation in the last update. I feel his meltdown is less defensible here. The corpse may have these women and children cowed, but Quigley ain't gonna let this stand.
Ech, what a drama my computer has been over the weekend. It started with skyrocketing CPU temps, which I at first attrib...
2020-10-26 01:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post
You kind of expect someone to reply: "That's some conspiracy dogshit, Ald! What in the hell are you talking about? We don't do THAT. You're totally out of line!"
Ah, but no, that's kind of how it goes, even if Duane's put the sacrifice in terms a little harsher than "Sending a twin to the gods."
Ever since we arrived at the shrine I'...
2020-10-23 03:57:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Duane acts like such a cringey dickhole in this scene I can barely show it to you. I think people assumed I meant he does cruel and violent things this chapter, and that's why I was warning that the worst of his behaviour was looming, but it's more like he bullies a bunch of little girls and whines at their keepers, and it's Rector Adelier's low...
2020-10-21 03:50:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This is pretty old art and I think it was a commission. It's extremely explicit, please don't click the link if this isn't your kind of thing! http://www.casualvilla...
2020-10-18 00:34:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Two pages today. This is coming together remarkably well. Good show, Sette!
Duane keeps lion glamour pymarics on his person the way some men carry pocketknives. You're never going to catch him without at least one, and most likely with several - after all, a man never knows when he's going to be called to put the leonine fear of Ssael int...
Will no one stop the hooting of that telltale owl? His judgemental birdy eyes remind Sette of Lady Ilganyag's, but now is not the time to be thinking of her. Why would she even be? Go away, Tittybird, none of this is about you!
2020-10-14 03:49:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This version is ever so slightly different than the one on the site, but not meaningfully enough I thought I needed to scramble to make them match.
2020-10-12 03:58:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This and the next few pages spill over their boundaries. Usually when I do this I add the extra bits at web rez but in this instance I went ahead and drew the whole thing at print rez, so I could save it out big and pretty for you.
The style of the gods at the end is a fun callback to how they were drawn waaaaay back in chapter 3, but wit...
