5/18/2018: Epilogue, Page 18
Added 2018-05-18 04:15:33 +0000 UTCRamadan Mubarak! To any Muslim readers, I wish you the best.
And speaking of the best, that's a fine callback in the first panel! "Severe." Get it? Because it echoes Wally's sentiment back in... in.... Good lord, that was over a hundred pages ago. I just wrote it off the top of my head because I love to tie everything together.
But we've been building to the meat of the page for much longer than that. I've had this in mind for quite some time. Now I can't guess if most of you are indifferent, or satisfied, or disappointed by the turn of Crystal and Zandra's relationship.
I hope it's understood that I'm not definitively saying that what Zandra chose to do was necessarily right or wrong. There needs to be room for people to give their own answers. If you think that she should have been totally honest with Crystal, I won't argue. Sometimes love is enough. And if you think she made a noble concession to do what was best for her greatest friend, I won't argue. Sometimes it isn't. And maybe your thoughts go somewhere else.
Life is filled with grey areas. I'm of two minds. But ultimately, this was the way the story wanted to go. And I've always appreciated the ways that loss can compliment love.
It's up to you whether or not the means justify the ends. But hang tight... we still have several pages to go.
-Joe
