15.25 Fantasy Comics Endstone
Apr21
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#Endstone is a fantasy, scifi, post-apocalyptic comics, webcomics, graphic novel…. once in a blue moon.
First, I love the sepia tone! Question, earlier there was more of a sort of cyanotype (blue) background which was similar to the French silent movie method of having films tinted blue for outside and sepia for inside. In the area of her home we see sepia, but away it has been blue. Did you follow the French color scheme, was there another reason, or was it just artistic whim?
Second, how long before the penny drops?
Third, they seem more living (as did the deer earlier), is the stone having more power now that the Endstone is not in the hands of one who could wield it?
Great questions! As for the colors, I don’t really know anything about the French color scheme, but it sounds cool and maybe I do it instinctively. My goal was to make a color transition from a drab, spooky forest to the magical, sacred forest of Kyri’s tribe. To get the effect of the sacred forest, I used a highly contrasted photo of an Autumn forest. I restricted myself to using colors only from this photo. I’ve used this technique before, and I was surprised and pleased with the results here. I also added a translucent orange layer over the entire page for added effect. Very fun.
And the answers to your other questions will arrive very shortly. 🙂
“It’s us, your long lost family and friends! Alive, and totally not undead…”
Beautiful page! Do we know if “beyond the Great River” is metaphor for death, like “River Styx”? Also, Thunderhead is surprisingly talkative, though the others are more zombielike. Curiouser and curiouser…
Hey thanks! I’m not sure if I should answer your question about the river. It should be up to the reader to interpret what is being said. But let me know in reply and I’ll let you know what it means to me.
Also, Kyri is talkative, isn’t she? I guess seeing her brother and sister brought her back to who she once was.
So Necromancy is all right as long the reanimated dead were YOUR family when still alive? Hypocrisy I say!
Exactly! 🙂 And this is one of points of the story. 🙂
Considering the setting, I would think “the Great River” is the Mississippi.
Could very well be. Or the Ohio River, which runs into the Mississippi.
Ooh good point. I have trouble keeping track of details like that! Anyways, it’ll be interesting to see how this reunion plays out!
Oh! Sorry, I misread the bubbles. In the long-shot panel I thought that the zombies were talking to Kyri too (which would have been surprising). I see now that in her desperation she’s doing enough talking for all of them…
I’m thinking Thunderhead is going to be really unhappy once she works out what’s actually going on. She wanted to return to Nature, and this is anything but.
Cue up “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
Good point. This all very much against the natural order of things.
I get more of a Zombie Jambori vibe.
… Really…?
She must truly be desperate for the company of her deer loved ones (totally intented)…
She just left the rest because things got complicated with all the dead walking and now she has seen an ancient deer bounce up and people she quite likely figured to be dead and she goes straight to embrace them? She’s not the sharpest hoof at times, is she?
My vote is “desperate.” 🙂
True. Thunderhead would really, really to be able to slide right back into her old life.
Which, of course, no one has ever done in fantasy stories since Frodo Baggins hit the scene.