6/4/2018: Epilogue, Page 22
Added 2018-06-05 03:25:06 +0000 UTCNot a friend. Not really an enemy. Not much of anything, after all. Just chalk to be wiped away.
Terribly sorry (again) for keeping everyone waiting. Especially since this might be taken as something of an anti-climax to the comic's oldest mystery man. I pondered many times over the years how best to resolve his presence... I won't say that this is what I always had in mind. There were ideas. He might have been a big part of Zebra Girl's story.
But in the end, her life is full, and there wasn't room for him to be anything but a mystery. Was he all in her head? Was he God, the Devil, or life, or death? A wandering metaphysical being? Something else?
Like Clarity, and Sandra's mother, this will have to be ambiguous for now. It looks like the future is an uncertain sort of place.
I'll let you fill in the blanks.
Speaking of the future, I intend for the next page to be the last (to be posted this coming Friday the 8th). We're finally, truly, nearly almost done. And it's a strange time for me. After Friday I'm not going to be doing something that I've been doing for the better part of my whole life. I'm not really sad or anything... I've never quite seen the value of regret, and I don't see much cause for it, anyway. I'm more inclined to feel happiness, and appreciation, and gratitude to all of you who have done me this honor. Everyone who's supported me in one way or another, even if all you did was enjoy. Thanks again, friend.
Hoo. The whole thing... I can't believe I'll have drawn this whole thing.
...Hey, out of curiosity, do you like her dress any better now? I think it looks good. I know it got a mixed reaction. Do you hate it? Maybe it's growing on you? Eh? I can't grok fashion, I barely know art. Eighteen years and I STILL don't know what I'm doing!
-Joe
