One more page and this chapter is DONE! Anyhow, just a quick head’s up that the wiki is currently down, and I didn’t notice until today when several kind people both emailed and texted me to let me know. We totally forgot to move it over when we did the server switch, and we’re on it.
Okay, so I’ve been mega busy this week, but here’s why. If all goes as planned, our kickstarter will be happening on January 20th, which means that I’ve actually gone back and remastered the last pages that needed remastering–all of chapter 7 and a bit of chapter 8. I also made chapter covers for Chapters 8, 9 and 10, which you can view if you check out the archives. While I didn’t have time to do the sketches for last week’s contest (so feel free to keep on telling me who you ship until I do), I’ll be getting on that ASAP–I still have 5 more pages to finish up from Henri’s Sidestory, as well as a cover to design to do. I did post up a panel from page 4 of Henri’s Sidestory on the Insiter’s Blog that features Henri’s parents, in colour.
Anyhow, all this aside, happy New Year! My resolution is to keep this buffer up, as well as to lose all my pregnancy weight and then some. What are you all trying to do in 2013? Anyhow, work calls! Enjoy the page!
I’m really liking your new theme! It definitely makes your comic pages stand out a bit more. Very clean.
For 2013, I’m hoping to just be more productive at home, and not just at my job.
O_o That is definitely a twist I wasn’t expecting! Oh my!
Oh one small typo in the third panel: “Your training and talents make your…” (I think it should be you.)
Great page! Looking forward to more!
I’ll second the typo in the third panel.
Fixed!
Well, I did not see that coming!
I did, but I think being the writer is cheating.
Here, have some crackships since my brain is so good at turning them out:
Roh (Raine/Noh), Lon/Sari (Sarlon? Lari? Hmmm…), Lon/Kait (Lulwhat?)…
And then, well, the possibly-not-so-crack Axca/Ethma (Even though, as I mentioned in previous comments, their species doesn’t work that way…)
Whaaaaaaaah!?!
How noble!
The Fiah (well, Haalhan) equivalent of nobility-of-spirit is an interesting thing. Their culture is already deeply ingrained with themes of solidarity and generosity, such that merely “doing the right thing” is regarded as the implicit responsibility of all decent people. Nobility, to them, is painful sacrifice – the willingness and conscious decision to worsen oneself for the betterment of others. Relinquishing an historic and illustrious position such as Primacy over the Exodus is a great example of this, as is embracing the murderer’s guilt and serving as a Guardian so that the gentle and merciful elements of Haalha’s culture may prosper unmolested.
Interestingly, Endi can also be seen as potentially noble in this context, as he doesn’t want the Primacy and is desperately afraid of the responsibility it entails, but may choose to embrace it anyway because that is the role in which he’s needed. A violent and merciless military commander could also be considered noble, provided his terrible actions were considered necessary and unavoidable; he would still be tried and punished under Haalhan law, but those sentencing him might, in the same breaths, recognize that no alternative existed, thank him for his courage and selflessness, and express respect for his willingness to “become the bad guy” and take the resulting legal fall so that no loose ends were left behind – no innocents unprotected, no guilty (including himself) unpunished.
Fiah are weird and neat.
Fiah Guardians sound a bit like societal sin-eaters (cf Carla Speed McNeil’s Jaeger character in the Finder series).
…and then the egg decides to hatch.
something seems to have gone wrong. the page before this one is also this one, and i dont remember that being the case last week…
Ooops, uploaded over the wrong page wile i was fixing a spelling mistake. Fixed now!
I’m hoping you’re still taking petitions on ships. I only have one (and sorry no name for the pairing).
I ship Ethma and Henry but in the true reality of the world with all of the physiological incompatibilities and racial disparities.
Of what we’ve seen from the Fiah race and what we know of humanity they both seem to be outsiders of their own making and not to mention mildly hotheaded. If they ever forged a relationship based on mutual respect I would expect it would rapidly mature into something vastly more convoluted and deep.
I’m earnestly hoping Cory and Ran are thinking, “Damn, she called that one… hope it’s not a spoiler for Chapter 22!” Lolz!!!!
heh heh
FLEDGED.