Happy Sunday folks! 🙂
Just wanted to let you know that the script for the next Endstone story is complete. Â I’m working on rough layouts now. Â It will debut sometime late March/early April. Â The only reason I can’t set a date yet is that I have a busy March coming up and I’m not sure about my schedule for drawing Endstone.
Also, as the new story is presented online, I’m going to eventually take down the archive of the GATES story (issues 1-12). Â The site archive is getting a bit unwieldy. Â However I am offering high quality pdfs version of the entire run. Â You can click on the links below or on the upper right side of the site. Â Name your own price! Also, I will have printed versions available within the next couple of months.
See you soon!
And as a bonus, Â a Colindra character sheet for the new story:
Those are great news!!!
Tony, Do you have an idea of how much is going to cost the printed versions?
Hey Edian thanks for your interest. 🙂
As of now, Volume 1 will be $14.99 and Volume 2 will be $23.99.
I, too, secretly love to breathe fire when no-one is looking.
You’ll get lung cancer if you keep that up… 😉
Hmm. Kyri’s character sheet states that she is 31, and here Cole’s age is stated to be 19. So Kyri had her when she was 12? Is that … a common age for deerish people to have children? Just curious. 🙂
Howdy Lurker. 🙂 Good point. However, it should be noted that Kyri and Jon were lost in time for time ten years after the Eternity Spire exploded. That’s how Cole came to be raised by Lord Quandel.
I know it gets confusing after so many years and such a huge archive. 🙂
Ahh so that’s the missing link. So Kyri is biologically 31, but it is now actually 41 years after her birth because she got suspended in time for 10 years. So that means she had Cole when she was 22, which makes more sense?
Hmm, would it be weird if somebody got stuck in time for 20 years, and then came back and found themselves the same age as their daughter? Perhaps a fun storyline to explore? 😉
“Deepest secret: can’t recall any afterlive. So either heaven doesn’t exist or he doesn’t have a soul” Seems to me like a wacky conclusion to only have those 2 options, heard similar in “game of thrones” for “Jon Snow”.
Obvious other options: 1) His memory was of “heaven” was erased till he gets back, as info not allowed to take with him back, lots of stories including webcomic Order of the sticks use it. 2) he was in a state similar to “sleeping” and only after “judgement day” do the dead get woken up… common in older religious books, eg Jesus describes dead Lazarus as sleeping and he was going to wake him up and stories of judgment day, eg writings like “revelations” by jesus apostles involve the dead being brought back after a “judgement day”.
(I am told by my brother for example who visited my grandfather’s grave that it had words on it “Just sleeping”, probably taken from Jesus/lazarus story in bible)
The fact that Gravestone can bring back a person from dead, or that John Snow could magically be brought back from dead, imo would make a person more likely to believe an afterlive is possible, that a “God” could bring everyone else back from dead as well.
I just did google search and *lots* of examples of description of a “last trumpet call then dead will arise” in old “holy books” (after “second coming of Jesus and the destruction of evil in world”), eg 1 Corintians 15:52 “in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. “
(given those sorts of descriptions in old holy books, someone with power to bring dead zombies back to life and seeing the gravestone also being able to bring back them even closer, may think they are doing “God’s work” in trying to bring everything together and bring back everyone to life, and that those trying to stop Gods work are working for the side of evil/antichrist)
Hey David. Yeah you are right that there are more possibilities concerning Pablo and his lack of recollection of an afterlife. Admittedly, it was a bit of a throw away line when I made his character sheet and I like the ideas you’ve come up with.
Also the idea of having someone think they are doing “God’s work” by using the Gravestone to give life back to all the dead is a great one. In earlier drafts of the current story I had Ophelia with this motivation, but ultimately decided that her searching for her daughter gave the character a more personal motivation that seemed to work better for this story. But I love your idea too!