unsounded

18-65

"Your hands... behave... like First Materials; they are able to put the great lines in disarray. However I cannot. I can do nothing."

18-64

Duane is not celebrating this development. In fact he looks downright disturbed. Quigley needs several drinks.

18-62&63

Level up!

18-61

I think it was Quigley who warned about the air going liquid if the fire got bad enough. Scary if you don't have a Plat to spot you D:

18-60

Finally! Out of the khert!

...sort of.

Remember that creeper Starfish told Quigley he'd be waiting in a plod facility by the water. So they're close.

18-59

Gettin' trippy. And drippy.

Only for Bastion fans

A commission for one of the lovely people who won the fanart contest of her roguish character Riven, and some jerk. Also a random warm-up page of Bastion and Paul making out because??? Please don't look if you don't like that stuff.

Have a lovely weekend!

18-58

Duane's starting to use his tether like a grapple. It's fun to draw :3 Anyway, make a note that Duane's taking Mikaila's poncho with him. That's a Key Inventory Item.

18-57

Now, Sette said none of these memories seem to be hers or Duane's. So whose memories would that be in the final panel, I wonder?

18-56

I know it's weird, bear with me. Remember this though, it'll be important.

18-55

We've had little glimpses throughout the comic of the Lady's nests - she has several, but that's not important, she just has lots of stuff. Apparently all that collecting has been for the sake of Sette fandom.

18-54

Woof, that nest panel took an age to do. Terribly convenient that Sette fell right into it and Duane missed, surely affording our heroine a few precious minutes to herself before he climbs up. Piss off, plot crows, we all see through you and your "coincidences."

18-53

The little shot of baby Duane holding baby Mikaila was very fun to do. And then at the end, in case it's not clear, that's the line that Sette cut long ago, knotted whole again. Kinda creepy, I think! No escape.

18-52

The last time Sette and Duane were in the khert at the same time, it was Sette alone who encountered the odd mass of baby-shaped... creatures. Duane himself has never seen them. And Sette hasn't really missed them. They may be a pitiful sight, but they're just not right.

18-51

Kinda think that second panel looks cool. Birds are here though, back to the plot we go.

18-50

I think that was the universe giving Sette one last chance to come clean, and she decided to roll around in the mud some more instead. Well, let's see how that works out for her.

18-49

This page is forever burned into my memory as the page I was on when I got super sick last month. Perhaps that is fitting.

It's an important page though, commit it to memory :)

18-48

Drawing characters freely talking, breathing, and moving while underwater is so novel; I kept going back to it while in the khert. Sette didn't kill the squishes though, just split 'em back up a bit.

18-47

There's a really blatant video game visual reference on this page and points to the reader who calls it out first :3 I was in a mood!

18-46

Pay attention to how quickly Sette adapts to her fantastical surroundings and how readily she starts moving through it all. Throw a squirrel into a tree and maybe it's not so weird how easily it climbs.

18-45

Sette's fresh meat for a misery-starved eel. Duane's quite the snack himself. Tread carefully 'round these parts, chicken tendies~

18-44

I always feel a little bad posting pages with no dialog, forgive me~

Next update you get to see some of the khert panels that have been taking me sooo loooong to do. I think they look nice though :3

18-43

Oh, Duane, you're so heroic sometimes <3

I really enjoy that toothy eel; it feels like just the kind of dental horror that would find Sette's nastiest memories appealing. The ghosts of a million broken teeth and impacted molars. And you know it's powerful because see all the golden crust? That's the stuff that makes up the whorls and wa...

18-41&42

Two pages today, plus a cut panel that made it further along than most do.

Nary's indeed an evil son of a bitch but that's an intriguing idea he presents. Why would something like Sette wind up in his keeping unless someone really wanted her there? And why would someone really want her there unless it was to become whatever a daughter of N...

18-40

Duane really would like to set this entire country on fire and let God sort it out.

18-39

I drew this scene earlier last month when lots of different versions of A Christmas Carol were around, and Duane here must feel a little like one of the Christmas ghosts moving through Scrooge's memories. Except Scrooge himself is reliving the past and not merely watching his past self. I don't know how you can really help someone in that situat...

18-38

Nope. No squishes here.

So sorry for the lack of update on Friday, everyone. You may have seen on social media that I was pretty sick. I'm not back up to snuff yet but I'm still pushing ahead. That's what buffers are for, after all. I've waited too long to get to the end of this comic!

18-37

I could have happily written the two of them fangirling about lions for thirty pages. But there's still a world to save.

18-36

Don't let the kindly yet relentlessly blasphemous green man make you let your guard down, kiddo.

Happy Holidays, readers! I'll be making the long drive to my brother's place for Christmas to eat ham and fight his dogs. I've become the weird aunt who always gifts the kids comics they didn't ask for. They're getting fat samurai manga tankoub...

18-35

It may seem like a little thing, but Duane freely admitting he's scared of Alderode (and his past and his family) is something he would never have done before he met this little snotty tailed creature.