Aaaand I made it! I only missed one update in this gargantuos 43 page chapter, this comic is finally starting to run smoothly, and just in the nick of time! The next ones gonna be good! Stay tuned on my tumblr, twitter and instagram Pages (though I’m way more active on the last one!) for updates on when next chapter is gonna start!
You may (although probably not) remember this fine crew from the end of chapter 8; Although Marcus has made a few other appearances throughout the story! He’s a character who I’ve drawn a lot since he first appeared on page 4, so I’m really happy to be working with him for real! I hope you enjoy, see you tomorrow!
And here we get a little bit of a view on this groups dynamic; one that’s relatively new, since Marcus has only been hanging out with these people since Topal was destroyed! One thing I’m having lots of fun with this chapter is working with some people from the same place as Bingo and Annabelle!
The last year has been stressful for drawing comics, lots of important story beats I wanted to hit. With that in mind, I’m having a blast with this chapter! Most of the story progression this chapter will be in the background, so this is gonna be a really nice breather; I get to experiment a lot and have fun!
Nate’s songs are some silly dumb things I’ve been writing down for a long time, but reading the Hobbit a lot and having Nate actually present in the story made me decide to put one in the actual comic! Hopefully having a written word song in a webcomic isn’t too weird! I also thought this would be an interesting way to convey some mythology? I namedropped Sala a LONG time ago, thinking it would take a lot less time to follow up on, oops!
I’m back from VanCAF! It was a fantastic convention, and I met (and saw again!) tons of incredible friends! I loved it, but at the same time I’m very glad to be back, and recovering from my extreme sleepiness! This page didn’t work out SO well because of my break, but I’m excited for tomorrows! I’ll see you then, as we check in on an old friend!
And just like that our friends meet, new and old! Sorry for missing yesterday, this page didn’t work out and I was too frustrated to finish it, but here it is anyways! Time to move on! I might post tomorrow, but I might also take it off since it’s my bday. We’ll see!
We’re back!! I hope you’ll excuse this long unannounced break (and that it doesn’t ruin your enjoyment of this story!) but I ended up having to focus on finishing school, and this summer’s been a bit crazy, I’m spending lots of time with my friends before I go away in September! Quick housekeeping, at one point I said I would be trying to finish this whole thing up by October; I’ve changed my mind! I decided I’ve spent long enough on this story that I don’t wanna just “get it over with”, whether I like it or not this means a lot to me! Even if it means weekly updates come September I’m not gonna ruin the ending to get it out of the way. We’ll see how things go moving forward! For now I’ll see you tomorrow for more updates!
Here we find out a bit about what happened to Kiasha! There’s some sucky stereotypes in fantasy stories around disability, I was excited to use some of those tropes (bc using fantasy tropes is the heart of this comic) but do it in a more tasteful way. Stories using characters disabilities as a plot device was pretty bad for me when I was younger, I thought it’d be interesting to do that same thing in a way that didn’t put Kiasha down. Anyways, I’ll see you tomorrow as this whole gang gets even MORE tense!
Hey guys!!! I know it’s been a WHILE, and I’m really really sorry! Without much warning I took a LONG break from comics. University has been a crazy, lovely, great but overwhelming experience. I’ve been drawing comics VERY slowly, so I just wasn’t confident enough to start posting them again steadily. That being said, not posting them has been driving me crazy, so I couldn’t not anymore. The new schedule will be weekly, with comics going up every Wednesday! I hope that doesn’t slow things down too much, but I thought it was probably better than nothing at all! I wish these next few pages were more exciting, since coming back with this kind of boring stuff sucks, but I hope you guys enjoy the rest of the chapter! We’re coming up on the end, and I think it’s something special. I’ll see you next Wednesday for another comic!
Somebody’s bitter!
Since nobody could POSSIBLY remember this, 
This page really hurt my hand, lots of characters!!! We also catch a glance of a new face here, come back tomorrow to explore that a bit!
As we and Arthur know, that is strictly untrue!
Sorry for missing yesterday, summer’s been busy! Might have to go back to every second day soon, we’ll see!
Comics are back for a week! Starting right off the bat with one of nate’s dumb songs. I hope you enjoy these next few pages, I’ll see you tomorrow!
Skylo snaps
Nate finally talks in tonight’s update! He’s been going through just as much as the rest of the group, but he’s based on some people I know who would rather spread smiles than focus on the bad. Come back tomorrow for another new page!
This page is real sloppy BUT oh well! It hasn’t really been touched on much, but everyone lost people