SYNOPSIS: The year is 2010. Eight unsuspecting humans attend OMEGAcon and vanish after mistaking a malfunctioning space ship for a parking-lot exhibit. Avian aliens Endi and Ethma have orders to save the people of Earth through a species relocation project, but an act of sabotage sends their mission – along with years of planning – down in flames.
The humans find themselves hurtling across the stars, plagued by questions that their rescuers cannot answer. Why did these “Fiah” bird-people come to Earth? Who are the Ith and why do they look so much like humans? Why is every alien they meet clearly afraid of the adorable, slimy Hlurcht who have so generously fixed their spaceship? In their search for the truth, the travellers are inevitably drawn into the heart of an ancient interstellar conflict, far from the blue planet they call home.
Back on Earth, nations bicker and band together in the wake of what appears to be a failed alien invasion. Humanity ponders the remains of the Exodus, a massive mothership meant to carry out the Fiah’s relocation initiative – now nothing but wreckage scattered across the globe and in Earth’s orbit. Amidst this fear and uncertainty, an international intelligence agency rises: the Earth Sovereignty Initiative.
Tasked with locating the eight humans abducted at OMEGAcon, E.S.I. Agent Maxwell Flagg despairs after months of internal politics and interdepartmental scheming cause the trail of evidence to go cold. He gets an unexpected break in the form of Agent Samira Hahn, an Ith spy who has fallen in love with Earth’s many vices. Samira’s brilliantly unorthodox methods prove to be a perfect complement to Agent Flagg’s relentless pursuit of justice, and the unlikely duo soon find themselves unravelling a political intrigue vaster than either of them could ever have imagined.
Every new discovery reveals greater danger, and the humans are increasingly forced to rely on one another – and on the alien friends they’ve made. Personalities clash, romance blooms, and grudging respect is forged as each of them learns what’s most important to them… and what they’re willing to sacrifice in order to protect it.
Suggested Rating: Young Adult | PG-13
UPDATE SCHEDULE: For many years we have updated on a once a week schedule, which meant four to five pages every month. That has always felt like a compromise for us, because a week between pages throws off pacing. We are excited that the rise in popularity for batch/episode updates in recent times, because it means that we can change things up!
Going forward, the end will update once a month on the 15th, with at least one full scene per update. A scene will be anywhere from 3 to 8 pages, depending on what the scene requires.
ABOUT US: We have been working on the end since 2010. We’ve had some bumps and stalls over the years, but we are determined to finish this comic, and have been working diligently to make that happen in a satisfying way. This project was born out of our mutual love for sci-fi, and working on it together has gotten us into all sorts of new sci-fi media that we might have overlooked otherwise.
August Brown is a Canadian illustrator, designer and cartoonist. He started making webcomics back when he was a teen, and just…never stopped. His favourite things to draw are neat lighting, cool shoes and, oddly enough, hands. Drawing cars, the interiors of cars, really just vehicles of any kind, and also crowd scenes are the bane of his existence, which is unfortunate because making the end has required him to draw these things, over and over and over.
August’s other available works are STRIKE THE EARTH! and a short comic in Valor: Swords called Please, and he has done illustrations in subsequent volumes of Valor to accompany the writings of Megan Lavey-Heaton. August can be contacted at augustdraws@gmail.com, professional inquiries only.
Shay Brown is a Canadian writer and editor. She has contributed to a variety of pitches, scripts, and tabletop game supplements. She particularly enjoys world-building, especially in science fiction, and is responsible for much of the political and cultural background of the the end‘s extraterrestrial civilizations. She occasionally tries to work additional vehicles and crowd scenes into the end as a form of enrichment; who this enriches is a matter for debate.
Shay can be contacted at shaybrownwrites@gmail.com for writing, editing, and proofreading services. Professional inquiries only.
